Sleeping with the enemy: spammer stirs employer/employee digital paranoia

The subject line of this bit of spam caught my eye. It proved somewhat interesting, so I’ll share it.

Not that I want to be rewarding spammers, of course, which I’ll avoid by deleting the signature line so you can’t respond even if you want to.

It does contain food for thought about the ease of theft of valuable data. Turning people against their spouses, though, is a tacky sales technique, I think.

Anyway, here it is:

Each year, about eight million Americans enter into at least one workplace romance*, but what happens when one of the partners moves on to work with a competitor?

While pillow talk obviously must be closely guarded, what happens when couples share a cell account or give each other easy access to a PDA that contains sensitive company data?

Sure, the wife says she is just “checking your calendar to see if we can schedule dinner with the Holcombs next week” . . . but is she, really? Are you sure she isn’t checking to see if you’ve scheduled that pitch with the juiciest account on the planet and trying to get the scoop? Or worse, getting the contact information for your three biggest customers, so she can schedule a friendly “chat.”

Wake up, loverboy . . . it’s time to realize what could happen to you and your company if the enemy finds that information. Who’s [sic] side are you on, anyway?

The good news is that there is software on the market that can protect your PDA, smartphone or laptop from supposedly good [sic] intentioned prying eyes owned by spouses, live-in lovers or “special” friends who have been sent in to capture your heart while carrying out their real mission of infiltrating the competition. Let’s just hope you’re smart enough to wake up and smell the data that could be stolen, putting your job and your career in jeopardy – forever!

Let me know if you want to chat with someone who knows a thing or two about keeping sensitive data out of the hands of the diabolical minds that want to take over the universe. We can help.

All sneaky things,

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* According to a 2000 report by the Bureau of National AffairsScared the heck out of me! Good thing my wife of almost 20 years doesn’t know my laptop password (she does work for another law firm, after all ;-) )

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