FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FROM: BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF WEST FLORIDA
BBB is NOT sending this Email!
Businesses and consumers across the country have received fraudulent phishing scam emails that appear to be sent from BBB. These emails are being sent from various email addresses @bbb.org such as: "risk@bbb.org", "complaint@bbb.org", "service@bbb.org", and "alert@bbb.org". If you are receiving this email, do nothing! This is a scam. Do not click the link at the end of the email.
Please see below for contents of email:
"The Better Business Bureau has received the above-referenced complaint from one of your customers regarding their dealings with you.
The details of the consumer's concern are included on the reverse.
Please review this matter and advise us of your position.
As a neutral third party, the Better Business Bureau can help to resolve the matter. Often complaints are a result of misunderstandings a company wants to know about and correct.
We encourage you to use our ONLINE COMPLAINT system to respond this complaint.
The following URL (website address) below will take you directly to this complaint and you will be able to enter your response directly on our website: http://www.bbb.org"
Note that the link does not take you to bbb.org. You should delete this email completely from your computer. If you have clicked on links, opened attachments or replied to the email, delete the email and run a virus scan.
BBB is an unbiased non-profit organization that sets and upholds high standards for fair and honest business behavior. Businesses that earn BBB accreditation contractually agree and adhere to the organization’s high standards of ethical business behavior. BBB provides objective advice, free BBB Business Reviews® and BBB Wise Giving Reports®, and educational information on topics affecting marketplace trust. To further promote trust, BBB also offers complaint and dispute resolution support for consumers and businesses when there a is difference in viewpoints. The first BBB was founded in 1912. Today, 125 BBBs serve communities across the U.S. and Canada, evaluating and monitoring more than four million local and national businesses and charities.