Scams targeting ASIC customers

As a follow up to our recent post regarding Scams targeting businesses, we thought you should be aware that there is a current scam targeting ASIC customers.

Scammers pretending to be from ASIC have been contacting our clients regarding Business Name Renewals. 

The scam email looks genuine and is difficult to detect that it’s a scam (other than the obvious email address as shown below). 

Important Information to note

The email is from an email address @encounteradio.com.  Any email sent to you by ASIC will come from asic.gov.au

The subject line of this scam email is “Renewal”.   An ASIC Business Name renewal will always state the actual Business Name to be renewed in the subject line of the email.

In order to protect yourself, you should:

• keep your anti-virus software up to date
• be wary of emails that don't address you by name or misspell your details and have unknown attachments
• don't click any links on a suspicious email and delete it from your mailbox immediately (including your deleted items)

If you would like to discuss this matter further, please contact our office.