A few of our clients have received a fraudulent email being circulated that appears to be from UPS about a shipment that could not be delivered. The email urges the recipient to open an attachment that supposedly contains a waybill for the shipment, but the attachment contains a virus.

Play it safe by observing the following best practices:

• Treat all email with suspicion
• Don’t open attachments that you aren’t specifically expecting
• Use a personal email account for non-business related correspondence
• Never respond to emails that request personal financial information
• Ensure that your workstation has current anti-virus and anti-spyware protection

Posted by Brad Benner in Technology on 18 November 2008. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.