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Protect Your Business:  How to Spot and Prevent Domain Spoofing Scams

Posted by Ann Westerheim on 6/28/24 9:39 AM

The more you know about the various types of cyber scams out there, the safer you'll be online. We recently received a question from someone in our community who's doing a lot of hiring and reported that someone had posted a job on a spoofed website - "domaincareers.com" instead of "domain.com".  Why do scammers do this?  They're trying to trick people into providing personal information like a social security number and possibly financial information so they can steal it.  It is true that before you start a job, you'll need to give your employer your social security number and you'll probably want to set up direct deposit of a paycheck, but if a company is asking for this information too early, its a scam.   Both employers and potential employees need to know about these scams.

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Tags: domain name, cybersecurity





Protect your Small Business - Renew your Domain Name

Posted by Ann Westerheim on 11/29/10 10:36 AM

Every once in a while, we get a panicked call from a small business owner - "Help, my email and website stopped working - we can't get any e-mail and I'm missing important orders!".  After the usual first steps in trouble shooting - such as can they get out to the Internet at all - one of the first things we check is the domain name registration status.  Often what we'll catch is an expired domain name. 

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Tags: small business, domain name, renewal





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