Bad Emails

Hoping to add clarity to which emails you should delete immediately, I would like to address to specific kinds: The Phishing Email and The Dangerous Attachment Email. Both emails usually are crafted with the appropriate corporate logos and official sounding customer service tags. The Phishing Email usually informs you that there is something wrong with your account or the security on your account and that you will need to contact customer service or corporate security. Most often they want you to click on a link which will “help” you make things right. The link, if you followed it and the instructions you receive when you arrive, would take you to a counterfeit website, similar to, but not the same as the true corporate web site. Any information that you voluntarily provide on the counterfeit site would be used to steal your identity. In my experience, corporations almost never adjust customer accounts this way. Delete Phishing Emails immediately. The Dangerous Attachment Emails are different in the process that they will ask you to open the attachment to view the information, which they say is so important to you. Double-clicking the attachment usually will install a rogue virus on your computer, costing you between $50 and $200 to remove. Corporations will almost never send you information this way either. Delete Dangerous Attachment Emails as soon as you can. Remember, receiving these emails in your inbox will not harm you or your computer. They both require you to take additional steps to create a bad situation. As always, if you have any concerns about an email, feel free to call us. We do not charge you to answer a few simple questions over the phone.