{"id":3050,"date":"2013-01-08T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2013-01-08T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:02:23","slug":"watch-out-for-those-phishing-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/watch-out-for-those-phishing-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for those phishing emails!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/domains\/bbb-delivers-complaint-to-pool-com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BBB report on Pool.com<\/strong><\/a> recently, I&#8217;m naturally expecting communication on the matter from the Better Business Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of spoofed emails, pertaining to be from BBB, increased as my guard levels went down.<\/p>\n<p>In the past day or so, I received five phishing emails, supposedly from the Better Business Bureau; all with loose language that&#8217;d lead someone to click on the links, expecting to read something about the case they are dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>So remember: the time that you are most vulnerable to phishing emails, is when you&#8217;re actually expecting something to arrive! Treat every email as a potential threat and never log in to accounts of services from an email link.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, if you&#8217;re wondering what might be a solution to the Pool.com situation, <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinedomain.com\/2013\/01\/07\/news\/my-solution-for-the-pool-problem-pool-shutting-down-registrars-effective-january-10\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kostantinos over at Online Domain<\/strong><\/a> has an interesting suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having filed a BBB report on Pool.com recently, I&#8217;m naturally expecting communication on the matter from the Better Business Bureau. The amount of spoofed emails, pertaining to be from BBB, increased as my guard levels went down. 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