Elevate the Level of Your Discourse

With hospitals and cities being held hostage by ransomware its more important than ever to understand and use appropriate etiquette when using email.

Each ransomware attack starts when an unsuspecting employee opens an attachment on an email. However, all of these emails had obvious clues that it was not a legitimate piece of business communication.

Here's the problem, "How, as an employee, can you tell the difference between a valid email and an attempt to hack your system; when all of your email has bad grammar?"

Answer: "You Cant." It is very much like looking for a needle-in-a-haystack.

However, what if the quality of email correspondence increased? Then the poorly worded emails would stand-out. They would look like the frauds that they are. You would read the message and cry-out "who, who would write such dribble? Stop now my bleeding heart, I cannot take for another moment such utter disregard for proper morphology."

For several years now companies have encouraged their employees to use proper grammar when writing inter-office emails. Sometimes employee computers are confiscated as evidence and all the emails that have been sent and received could become a mater of public record. Poorly worded email could reflect, poorly, on the company.

They have asked that texting shortcuts not be used in emails. Texting is for short conversations of a more personal nature and Email is for document-able conversations of a business nature.

In business, Email is loosing ground to Texting but it isn't dead yet. So, you're going to need to know both systems.

Now, it looks like we have another reason to proofread, spell-check and grammar-check our emails. To help recognize attempts to steal our identity or install ransomware on your machine.