We have received numerous reports of spoofed e-mail with subjects like "Account Alert" or "Your profile will be locked", claiming to come from "admin@bev.net", "BEV Security Department" or "Administration bev.net" and containing executable malware, or a link to executable malware. Please do not open this email or click on the enclosed link.
BEV will not ask for account information via email.
Email from BEV: Is it legitimate or is it a trojan horse or phishing scam?
Meet the bad guys: Lots of people you don't know want to install malicious software on your computer or steal private information from your computer. To do this, they hope to trick you with deceptive email. These attack emails may try to deceive you by claiming to be from BEV staff members, and they may be hiding a link to the attacker's website in an HTML attachment that makes it look like the link you are requesting is on a BEV website.
So, how can you tell if the mail came from the BEV or the bad guys?
Note: We have the same problem when we get email "supposedly" from you. So, to separate you from the SPAM, certain BEV email addresses respond to email with a request that you use our Staff Mail Form located at http://www.bev.net/contact. (Caution: Remember #1 above.)
For more information on email phishing and other attacks, see the following links:
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