E-Mail Security - Check to make sure that emails are genuine
Not everybody that completes your website online contact form is a genuine user. There may be times when it is clearly evident that the information you have received when someone completes a form online is either:
(a) not genuine
(b) may contain links to sites designed to steal information or corrupt your computer
(c) offering to sell you SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or
(d) any other stuff that you probably do not even need or want.
If you have any cause for concern then please contact our team at 123 Simples who will be able to help you. We want you to be safe, so check that the information you have received in your email inbox is what it claims to be. You can do this by following some basic safety procedures.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
This information is for your protection! Please read it carefully and we encourage you to always make sure that the emails you receive are indeed genuine.
Learning how to check the content of your emails
In order to assist our clients, we have produced the ability for you to make reasonable checks on the validity of the contact forms that you may receive. Whether or not, you wish to do this, is entirely up to you, but we would like to help you and provide the safeguards to do so. As with everything in life, there is always someone, somewhere, who is out to cause a nuisance of themselves, and from time to time, contact forms on your site may be open to spam and abuse. To help you protect yourself, we have listed some basic guidelines in this article which we suggest that you do take note of. Depending on how your contact form has been setup by us, you will receive emails from people who will have completed the contact form.
Most of these emails may be genuine, but there will be times, when someone is not who they claim to be. We have have attempted therefore to take as many precautions as possible, and one of these precautions, is to actually log the IP address of the person who has completed your contact form. We will have run through with you the basics first, but when you receive a contact form, just be careful, and check the IP address information that you will have received on this form too.
Do you see a lovely lady below telling you what your IP address is?
How do I check the contact form IP Address?
To check the IP address simply copy the IP address (it will be something like 212.50.87.90) from the contact form reply email you received, and then please click here and paste the IP Address into the box provided on that page.
You should always check to see if the information matches up with the users details. If they do not, then there is a good chance that this is a "spam email" and you should perhaps not reply. If you have any doubts, or would like some more help on this feature, please contact us at 123 Simples for more advice and help about this feature.
Have you got your contact forms covered?
Most existing clients of 123 Simples have their contact forms designed to help cut down on possible spam. Have you got a similar protection with your own web design company and/or hosting provider? If you would like to know more about this feature and find out pricing for it, then feel free to contact 123 Simples to discuss your spam protection options.
We hope that you found this article of use
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