Tips for Spam/Phishing Safety

General Tips to consider:

1. READING IS CRITICAL!!!  PAY attention don’t just scan/speed read incoming emails.

2. If the language reads even the slightest bit off, it probably is.

3. A REAL Office 365/Microsoft 365 login screen will have three main features

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   1. 1 – The URL will be https://login.microsoftonline.com/<long string of stuff that doesn’t matter to us here>

   2. 2 – There will be the WCI logo floating in the background.  If you are logging in on your phone the background will just be white

   3. 3 – A Text inclusive logo will be present in the username/password form. “people packaging solutions”.  If the logo there is just the green ‘ball’ it’s a scam site

4. Faxes or “Sharepoint” shares ARE JUNK

   1. The only exception here are the FEW of you that deal with SRFax.  For EVERYONE else this is a hard and fast rule.

5. Remember the different color bars.

   1. Yellow Bar: Means the email originated OUTSIDE the company (no matter WHAT the FROM says).  Emails from customers and vendors will carry this.   Remember that our customers can get hacked to so if a message comes from a customer that looks weird ASK!

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   2. Green Bar: Means that I have configured our Email server to recognize the system that sends these but still originates from OUTSIDE the company.  These emails are VERY VERY VERY unlikely to be anything to be concerned with, but ALWAYS VIGILANT!  

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   3. NO COLOR: If an email comes in in PLAIN TEXT meaning no fancy pictures or colored text these notifications are still there.  They are just not colored.

6. We have some security testing planned for the near future.  Follow my tips and you won’t get caught in my net.