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This is a topic I highly recommend everyone become very familiar with and vigilant against.
In a nutshell if something seems odd about any email you receive examine it closely. Do not click on any links in an email you get that you get a gut feeling something is not right.
Take a very close look at the address its sent from. Is that address the valid address used by whoever sent you the email.
What these scum bags do is enter the display name of the email to be the valid email you normally get. However the display name is not the email address. In the email the actual email address you could very well be something totally different.
for example you get emails from John Doe all the time. Johns email address is [email protected]
Then one day you get an email from John Doe and when you examine the email you see it says John Doe but the email address in this instance is [email protected]
Best way to check is click on reply and do not sent it but however your mouse over the email address displayed and confirm there before you send that your sending it to the right person.
Another sign of a issue is if suddenly John Doe's emails are now going to your spam folder. When that happens look at the contact list and make sure you only have one John Doe listed and that its the valid one.
Be darn careful folks. I have heard of a few labs that their clients have received such bogus emails asking for say payment to a western union account rather then the normal cash in the mail or emt. Anything seems odd you investigate it before replying. You can even go to another one of your emails and send an email to the lab to ask them about the contents and instructions in that suspect email.
Be careful folks.
In a nutshell if something seems odd about any email you receive examine it closely. Do not click on any links in an email you get that you get a gut feeling something is not right.
Take a very close look at the address its sent from. Is that address the valid address used by whoever sent you the email.
What these scum bags do is enter the display name of the email to be the valid email you normally get. However the display name is not the email address. In the email the actual email address you could very well be something totally different.
for example you get emails from John Doe all the time. Johns email address is [email protected]
Then one day you get an email from John Doe and when you examine the email you see it says John Doe but the email address in this instance is [email protected]
Best way to check is click on reply and do not sent it but however your mouse over the email address displayed and confirm there before you send that your sending it to the right person.
Another sign of a issue is if suddenly John Doe's emails are now going to your spam folder. When that happens look at the contact list and make sure you only have one John Doe listed and that its the valid one.
Be darn careful folks. I have heard of a few labs that their clients have received such bogus emails asking for say payment to a western union account rather then the normal cash in the mail or emt. Anything seems odd you investigate it before replying. You can even go to another one of your emails and send an email to the lab to ask them about the contents and instructions in that suspect email.
Be careful folks.
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