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Office 365 Email Scam

There are lots of phishing emails trying to convince people to provide their login credentials.  Once a scammer has the credentials, they will access the user's address book and target the user's contacts.  The phishing emails instruct you to verify your account due to an error or a recent request you supposedly made to terminate your account.  DO NOT USE THE LINKS PROVIDED IN THE EMAILS!

Important SCAM Information regarding receiving calls or messages that you have a virus or malware:

Do not respond to these scams!  No one will NOT call you to tell you that you have a virus.  No legitimate website will tell you you have a virus and to call them to remove it.  The scammer wants you to install software which allows the scammer remote access to your computer.  The scammer then locks you out of your computer and demands that you pay a sum of money to let you back in again.  No one is monitoring your computer for viruses remotely.  We recommend SOPHOS Antivirus, a software application that YOU install, to handle virus prevention.

Phishing Emails and Attachments

Phishing emails attempt to trick you into providing your account credentials to a scammer claiming to be a legitimate business that you have a legitimate account with.  Some emails will have an attached "invoice" or "report" that really is a virus waiting for you to launch on your computer.  The best practice with emails of this kind is NOT to click on or open anything in the email but to go to the business website as you do normally to verify your account status.  Never reply to the emails or click any "unsubscribe" links as this can add your email to a list of known working email addresses that will be sold to other scammers resulting in additional phishing emails.