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They'll care after they accidentally email their entire company's accounts to some random gmail account after receiving a phishing 'hi, I'm your new accountant
by 15457345234 3y ago
They'll care after they accidentally email their entire company's accounts to some random gmail account after receiving a phishing 'hi, I'm your new accountant at audit_firm_you're_using' email.
If you don't use a corporate domain for your company's correspondence your customers have _no way_ to tell who's a legitimate employee of your firm and who's spoofing when they get an email.
- EspressoGPT 3y agoYeah, that's true for companies that have several employees with customer contact. But many individual companies/self-employed workers don't have that.
- 15457345234 3y agoThat's irrelevant. Even if you're a sole trader, if you use companyname@bigemailprovider anybody can create companyname.secretary@bigemailprovider and phish/steal your customers by pretending to be a member of your staff. Your customers will assume good faith unless their approach is blatantly scammy.