E-mail scams are common. You might receive a fake e-mail claiming to be from real businesses, like banks. Here are some tips to recognizing e-mail scams:
1) Do you recognize the sender's name or the e-mail address? Even if the e-mail looks like it's coming from PayPal, this is easily faked.
2) Are they any misspellings? Fake e-mails are often from non-English speaking countries, and misspellings or strange turns of phrase are common.
3) Do you even have an account with the business? We get e-mails from banks we don't use all the time. They're all scams.
4) Hover over (but don't click!) a link in the e-mail. Does the URL in the status bar look legitimate, or does it look like it's going to a big, long confusing URL?
5) Real businesses will NEVER ask you to confirm your password via e-mail - don't fall for this
6) If you click the link and your browser tells you that you are on a phishing website, don't proceed any further!
7) When in doubt, call the bank or business in question to verify whether they sent the message.
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox mail@example.com settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings open attached file.
Regardless of what is says in the "FROM" field, these e-mails do not originate from our server and likely contain dangerous files intended to harm your computer. Do not open these e-mails. Do not open the attachments. Do not forward these e-mails to us. Delete them immediately.
Any information on your e-mail accounts will originate directly from either Jessica or Bernie. We will never send you "setup files" for your e-mail account, as each computer must be configured depending on what e-mail client you are using.
We are not responsible for any damage to your computer that might arise from you opening such files.