Consider the number of emails you receive in a day, 50, 100... More??
Email is the preferred method of communication, whether personal or professional, among many. Business communication has easily adapted to the medium.
No more cold calling.... Networking platforms offer anyone an avenue to establish contact with any business. Guess what? That contact is generally made via... EMAIL! Unfortunately, the more emails hitting the inbox every day, the higher the possibility one of those is a phishing scam.
Now think about your small business. How many of your employees are fielding emails throughout the day? Likely, all of them. Next, consider approximately 95% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error, Yikes!
Phishing emails were a little easier to spot in the past. The use of improper grammar, misspelled words and names, were obvious and the email was quickly dismissed. Today, scammers are learning how to better disguise themselves, making it harder to spot a phish.
While it may be near impossible to avoid receiving bogus emails, you can learn to identify the suspicious ones.
Here, we offer this handy one-page guide... to help you spot the signs of phishing! Do not be intimated, a quick review of these key pieces, will let you know if the sender and email are valid.
