Once again SPAM and Phishing emails are doing the rounds, we have had issues at numerous schools. These include where one person has clicked a link, and then multiple people they have emailed before, inside and outside of the organisation have been contacted. These are designed to steal your login or personal information, and can cause major security and data protection issues.
Thank you to those who are checking emails prior to clicking any links, can we ask for you to make your staff aware:
Fake emails often (but not always) display some of the following characteristics:
The sender’s email address doesn’t tally with the trusted organisation’s website address.
The email is sent from a completely different address or a free web mail address.
The email does not use your proper name, but uses a non-specific greeting like “dear customer”.
A sense of urgency; for example 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.
A request for personal information such as user name, password or bank details.
The email contains spelling and grammatical errors.
You weren't expecting to get an email from the company that appears to have sent it.
The entire text of the email is contained within an image rather than the usual text format.
The image contains an embedded hyperlink to a bogus site.
What should you do if you’ve received a scam email?
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 with the email.
Matthew Setchell
Once again SPAM and Phishing emails are doing the rounds, we have had issues at numerous schools. These include where one person has clicked a link, and then multiple people they have emailed before, inside and outside of the organisation have been contacted. These are designed to steal your login or personal information, and can cause major security and data protection issues.
Thank you to those who are checking emails prior to clicking any links, can we ask for you to make your staff aware:
Fake emails often (but not always) display some of the following characteristics:
What should you do if you’ve received a scam email?
Further information on how you can protect yourself from these kinds of scams can be found here: https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/individual-protection