Protecting Your Small Business From Malicious Email
Email is far from dead, folks. Businesses ranging from large to local all benefit from having an email system in place. For a small business, setting up an official email is a great way to keep all important business matters and inquiries in one convenient place. It's a little alarming, but about 97% of the 60 billion emails sent each day are considered spam. These spam messages may have been written intending harm for the receivers, or they may just be 'junk mail'. Email hosts nowadays have decent spam filters in place to comb through your incoming mail, but malicious messages can still slip through.
Recognizing a Malicious Email
They notify you of an order you never made, e.g. via PayPal or Amazon, and offer a link to cancel it.
The email asks you to reply with personal info such as...