Email Security Recommendation

I am seeing an increase of spoofed email going around regarding
google ad word accounts, creditcard, bank updates, and other “account” updates.

Common spoofs are links to domains that are spelled “like” valid business domains.
Many of these links are to pages that contain viruses and malware.

The emails themselves may contain nothing more than “familiar” looking copy and/or images and a link
- the virus scanning software on the mail server and your computer do not find anything to remove.

Because the content of the email carries so much information that “looks like” information you would
normally want, the spam filters do not necessarily tag it.

The danger is on the page you would hit if you click the link.

Security Recommendations:
Don’t click on any links in emails.

Instead:  Bookmark the “home page” of the companies you have accounts with.

From the Business home page you should be able to navigate to the area required to manage your account.

If you train yourself to not click on links in emails it soon becomes second nature and is not
really all that time consuming, especially when compare to the time required to recover from
identity fraud or computer viruses.

Tags: business domains, computer viruses, email, email security, fraud, identity theft, mail server, security recommendations, spoofs, valid business, virus scanning software