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BBB Phishing

I got a letter from BBB saying I had a complaint from a client that I don’t have in a city I don’t work in. I contacted BBB and they gave me this email address to send the email to: [email protected].

Below is a letter I received after emailing the Better Business Bureau after forwarding the email to them.

Dear Consumer:

Thank you for forwarding this bogus email to the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc (CBBB). This suspicious email appears to be a new “phishing” attempt that fraudulently uses the BBB name. You can learn more about these phishing scams at http://www.bbb.org/us/article/email-phishing-scam-hijacks-bbb-name-again-36089.

You are strongly encouraged to run a complete virus scan on your system. And if you have downloaded any files associated with the email, you should delete them immediately.

Meanwhile, Better Business Bureau is working with our deactivation team to determine the level of threat this email poses and what further action is necessary.

Please note that you may have received an automatic reply indicating your email was not received by CBBB. This automatic reply is sent anytime an email which looks like spam reaches our servers. However, we did in fact receive your email.

Thank you once again for bringing this to our attention.

So glad they responded and wanted to share this information with you!!

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Phishing Email

I have a PayPal account, but not with email address this was sent to!! One of the great things about Outlook and Outlook Express, is that you can see the links at the bottom of the email without actually having to click on it to see where it goes and what kinds of cooties it tries to give you! All you do is “hover” your cursor over the link.

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Protect your computer from Cooties!

Viruses, Malware and other issues are a big concern for a lot of Web uses. To prevent this, use the latest version of Web browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.), that runs with virus scanning software. The image above is a sample of how sites are scanned and help to give you a heads up so you don’t visit a site with cooties.

There are a lot of FREE anti-virus software out there. Some are better than others. I recommend using two. There are so many bad guys out there, creating viruses and spyware, that it’s best to double up on your protection. If one anti-virus program does not catch something, the other might. I recommend having one scan your computer regularly and running the second one manually from time to time (more often if you are constantly checking out new sights and opening a lot of emails from strangers). Do not run these at the same time. Run one, then run the other.

If you want to pay for your protection, great! The programmers will thank you and you will get even better protection! I personally an a big fan of AVG and Malwarebytes. Other tech savvy people will agree, that Malwarebytes rocks! They will also agree that it’s always good to have multiple anti-virus and spyware programs. Another good (and free) anti-virus software is McAfee.

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