{"id":11205,"date":"2012-01-19T07:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=11205"},"modified":"2012-01-19T07:05:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:05:52","slug":"better-business-bureau-scam-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/better-business-bureau-scam-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Business Bureau Scam Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/250-scams.gif\" title=\"Better Business Bureau Scam Emails\" alt=\"BBB Scam\" title=\"No Scams\" width=\"260\" height=\"250\" style=\"float: right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" border=\"0\">Do you sell a product online?<\/p>\n<p>Would you be alarmed if you received a complaint notice via email from the Better Business Bureau?<\/p>\n<p>I was&#8230; for a about a nano second until I got to the &#8216;bad English' portion of the message. A quick Google Search confirmed my suspicions that this was indeed a spam message.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the message that I received.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attention: Owner\/Manager<\/p>\n<p>Here with the Better Business Bureau would like to inform you that we have been sent a complaint (ID 18537343) from a customer of yours related to their dealership with you.<\/p>\n<p>Please open the COMPLAINT REPORT below to obtain more information on this problem and inform us about your opinion as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to hear from you shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Grodhaus<\/p>\n<p>Dispute Counselor<br \/>\nBetter Business Bureau<\/p>\n<p>Council of Better Business Bureaus<br \/>\n4200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 800<br \/>\nArlington, VA 22203-1838<br \/>\nPhone: 1 (703) 276.0100<br \/>\nFax: 1 (703) 525.8277 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you get one of these, trash it. Do NOT open any links or attachments.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, all I did was search for &#8216;Fernando Grodhaus' and Google responded with a page full of complaints about this &#8216;complaint'.<\/p>\n<p>Comments, questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment below!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/images\/sig-ros.gif\" alt=\"Ros\" title=\"Rosalind Gardner\" width=\"100\" height=\"73\"  style=\"float: left; padding: 0px 10px 10px 0px;\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you sell a product online? Would you be alarmed if you received a complaint notice via email from the Better Business Bureau? I was&#8230; for a about a nano second until I got to the &#8216;bad English&#8217; portion of the message. 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