Need a business "Don't click on stuff" e-mail

[Greylor]

Hi all,

The IT knowhow in the business that I am in is atrocious. I have absolutely no training...I just game from time to time...and that's made me the guy to call for IT problems in a business of 150 people.

In order to help the system a bit, I want to send around one of those "Do not click on banners. Do not click on links in e-mails from people you do not know. etc." emails that IT admins send around businesses sometimes.

Do any of you have any of those e-mails lieing around that you can post here or send me in a private messsage? I'll obviously modify it to suit our business, it's just that as a non-techie I am struggling with the wording.

Cheers!

 

[D3x!]

Erm, please do not click links from unverified senders.

Also with a staff of 150 I find it hard to beleive there isn't at least an outsourced it

 

[Greylor]

Also with a staff of 150 I find it hard to beleive there isn't at least an outsourced it

Long....loooooooooong story.

But the crux of it is that about 3 months ago the outsourced company got booted, and the owner doesn't want to set up another maintenance contract. Due to old agreements and inter-company politics I can't just go elsewhere to get support, leaving us in a kind of IT limbo.

So that just leaves me as IT support for the time-being...which is nuts. In a way it's good, because it makes me invaluable to the business, but it's hard going when you're not trained for it and one wrong move can cause some serious problems

 

[sanimoyo]

Worth adding to your document:

"Don't reply to unsolicited email messages (spam)
By responding, you only confirm that your email address is active. Another thing you shouldn't do is click the "remove me" link in the message. Links in email can point to an IP address other than the one you think it references. The best thing you can do is delete the message. Many free email service providers will allow you to easily report it as spam if you received it through MSN hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL or GMail."

 

[Anthro]

As above, but add the following:

"Remember your bank won't email you to change passwords.
if in doubt, email me."

 

[Tacet]

if in doubt, email me your bank details and I will confirm their validity."

FTFY

 

[D3x!]

As above, but add the following:

"Remember your bank won't email you to change passwords.
if in doubt, [-]email me[/-] off yourself."

fixed

 

[Fudzy]

I'd just plagurise what info the banks have on phishing. Have you got spam filters on your mail servers?