Thursday, March 22, 2018

Scam emails?


  • Do not click on any links in the scam email.
  • Do not reply to the email or contact the senders in any way.
  • If you have clicked on a link in the email, do not supply any information on the website that may open.
  • Do not open any attachments that arrive in an email that you don't recognize. 
If you have compromised the safety of your bank details and/or have lost money due to fraudulent misuse of your cards, you should immediately contact your bank.

If you've been a victim of fraud, report it to nxg@rimits.com

Fake emails often (not always) display the following characteristics:
  • Sender's email address doesn't match the trusted organization's website address.
  • Email is sent from a completely different address or a free web mail address.
  • Email does not use your proper name, but uses a non-specific greeting like "dear customer".
  • A sense of urgency; ie: The threat that unless you act immediately your account may be closed
  • A prominent website link. These can be forged or seem very similar to the proper address, but even a single character's difference means a different website. 
  • Request for personal information such as user name, password or bank details.
  • Email contains spelling and grammatical errors.
  • You were not expecting to get an email from the company that appears to have sent it.
  • Entire text of the email is contained within an image rather than the usual text format.
  • Image contains an embedded hyper link to a bogus site. 

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