Spam advice for businesses

Businesses have been given advice to help them avoid being caught out by any malicious spam in their email inbox.

Security software provider Sunbelt Software recently reported that malware distributors and spammers had used the election as a hook to try to dupe recipients.

Meanwhile, research published by the Office of Fair Trading has revealed that 73 per cent of adults received a scam email in the 12 months to February.

Rik Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro, said that checking a subject line is vital to avoiding spam while he also gave advice on protecting an email address.

“Obviously don’t overshare – don’t post your email address online anywhere ideally,” he said. “If you don’t need to share your email address, don’t share it.

“If you do have to write your email address down on a website somewhere, and I would stress that that is inadvisable, then try to write it out in letters rather than writing it exactly as your email address.”

He added that any suspicious email should immediately be deleted.

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