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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Protect Your Business: How to Spot and Prevent Domain Spoofing Scams
Posted by Ann Westerheim on 6/28/24 9:39 AM
Tags: domain name, cybersecurity
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.
Tags: small business, domain name, renewal