[cma-l] HMRC Employer Alerts & Verification

[Bill Best]

Thanks for this Eddie.

Apologies everybody - I think it was me who let the original offending
message through. I'll hold my hand up to it anyhow.

I was managing the defence against a huge coordinated ddos
(distributed denial of service) attack against our network and at the
same time trying to deal with the daily mundane activities of the
email list - this bad message got past me.

Excellent advice from Eddie below.

Best regards

Bill
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Technical Operations Manager
Community Media Association
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On 5 February 2014 18:10, Eddie Stuart <eddie at kcr.fm> wrote:
> Golden Rule - *NEVER* open an attachment that you weren't expecting - if in
> doubt, phone the sender for clarification.
>
> ZIP files expecially can be self-extracting executables - ie, you click on
> it and in a couple of microseconds your computer is compromised.
>
> However, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets can all have macros that try to
> take you down.
>
> Also, make sure that links go to where they say they do, not a malware
> website.
>
> If in doubt, don't........
>
> Regards,
>
> Eddie Stuart
>
>
> On 05/02/14 16:09, Jaqui Devereux wrote:
>
> Hi Ian
>
> Don't think I would open it, HMRC website says they will never ask for
> personal info via email
>
> http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/security/reporting.htm
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Jaqui