Over time we have received several mails which has been sent to our clients as cold message claiming exaggerate offer of improving SEO, social media Marketing and generating lead to our clients, these e-mails are usually sent by individual and hackers, if you’re a business and receiving such phishing mail, we here to enlighten you and help you to get rid of such scams.

  • Receiving Phishing message in contact forum

The scammers usually try to get your attention using your website platform, these messages were mostly sent by human and not the bot. They simply send a message which is in a format of ready to be copy pasted in which they just replace the headers name with you or your business name. It may seem like they have researched about your business but as the matter of fact the written phrases or clauses has targeting the goals of generating more Revenue, leads or visibility which every business needs.

We have found that these mails are often sent by hackers, using different names that may sounds legitimate. In order to get rid of such mail you need to contact you developers immediately, ask them to integrate message filter in your contact form. To avoid such spams machine learning technologies can works as miracle, there are plugins that can be installed if you’re using WordPress technology. We are proud to tell you that Vmetasoft has software engineer and data scientist who are highly competent implement powerful spam filters.  Now let’s talk more about other types of phishing technique.

  • Avoid Phishing mail in your mail inbox

These are most common tricks that individual or hacker use in order to get your attention, over time we have seen improvised spam filter which is being use by mailing platform as Gmail and outlook, but hacker is also using improvised techniques to breach these spam filter. If you’re using business mail there may not be the filter to segregate these spam messages. There is powerful spam filter which is being available today, you contact your developers to have them installed in your mail application.

When you received such mail be sure not to click any link in the message and delete them immediately.

  • Phishing call in your business contact number

If you’re running a registered business your may has given your contact number to your accountant/ Lawyer during the incorporation process of your company. The data you provide to the government may be retrieved by the individual or hacker. Which they use to give you a cold call offering. In other cases, your business has mentioned those contact details in your website.

  • Receiving a Phishing text

SMS marketing is quite common now-a-days, business use them to offer their solution, although it is good way of marketing your business to a wide number of clients. We have seen multiple case where hackers are also using text messages service, asking your bank detail using various tricks, make sure not click any of the link and do not respond to these text messages.

Conclusion

In this article we have discussed about few tricks that hacker uses to get your attention, but remember we are now living in the edge of modernizing technology in which security has become the eminent threat. To avoid data or financial loss we must to be mindful and equipped with knowledge to protect ourselves and our business from people who wants take advantage of us.

We hope our article has given a you an insight of evolving phishing technique, we recommend you to ask your software developer and engineer to learn amount your data protection support.