The Better Business Bureau is issuing a second urgent SCAM alert cautioning businesses and consumers about an email that looks like it is from the BBB, with the subject line “Complaint from your customers.”
This e-mail is fraudulent; ignore its contents and delete it immediately.
If you have already clicked on a link in the e-mail, run a full virus scan of your computer. The e-mails have return addresses that the BBB does not use and are signed with the address of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, the national office of the BBB system. The e-mail contains a link to a non-BBB web site. DO NOT click on the link. BBB is working with law enforcement to determine its source and stop the fraudulent campaign.
If you receive this email, please forward it to phishing@council.bbb.org.
View a copy of the phishing email
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BBB Contact:
Nancy Crawford
901.757.8627
901.213.7809
ncrawford@bbbmidsouth.org