⚠️ Scam Awareness Notice: Unsolicited SEO Report Emails

⚠️ Scam Awareness Notice: Unsolicited SEO Report Emails

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My Community Voice Fraud & Cyber Awareness Alert

We have recently received an unsolicited email offering a free SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) report:

"I have an SEO report for your website covering search rankings, visibility, and potential customer reach. You can review it without payment or any obligation. May I send the report over?"

While this message may appear harmless, emails of this nature should be treated with caution.

Why should you be cautious?

Unsolicited business offers can be used to gather information about an organisation.

Responding may confirm that your email address is active, leading to further unwanted contact or spam.

Attachments or links contained in follow-up emails could pose cyber security risks.

Some providers use "free reports" as a method of generating sales leads or obtaining organisational information.

What should you do?

✅ Be cautious when receiving unexpected business proposals.

✅ Do not click on links or open attachments unless they have been verified as legitimate.

✅ Check the sender's email address and research the company independently if there is a genuine business need.

✅ Report suspicious emails through your organisation's reporting process.

✅ Delete the email if the offer is not relevant to your role.

Remember

Legitimate organisations can send genuine marketing emails, but unsolicited approaches should always be treated with a healthy degree of scepticism. Taking a moment to verify the sender can help protect both you and your organisation from fraud, phishing attempts, and cyber threats.

STOP • THINK • VERIFY

When in doubt, do not engage until the sender and their intentions have been independently verified.

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Message Sent By
Adrian Goodsall
(Kent Police, Force Lead for MCV, Strategic Prevention Command)