A while back I received what I thought was fairly standard spam to one of my email addresses which I was in the process of clearing of said spam. However something in the address or subject caught my eye so I actually previewed it, thanks to Mozilla Thunderbird and it’s previewing without actually opening the email, less risk that way. Something about the wording in it rang true so I opened a separate browser window (never open links directly from email unless you trust the sender) and did a quick search on my domain name…however I substituted the .co.uk for .com.
Sure enough my domain’s .com equivalent is owned by a legitimate accountancy firm. I’m reminded of this because today I unfortunately received some private data files off one of their clients. No, I wasn’t at all tempted to go take a look, as always at first I thought I was looking at spam until I realised the wording sounded equally legit. I took a quick look and sure enough this poster’s address also tied in with a legitimate business, a theory supported by the discussion in the e-mail.
I fired off a quick reply to them though I wasn’t under much obligation to, just to let them know that they mistyped the address, then I deleted said email with the records to be sure. If ever there was an example of being sure of the email address you’re using when sending personal data, this is one of them.
Tags: email, spam
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