On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Scourfield, Brenda wrote:
> I wouldn't have thought so - you have to take responsibility for your
> own actions for some things. I get those sort of emails all the time and
> just delete them and our emails are filtered. If the council supplied my
> details then it would be a different story.
I would say it could depend on what the Council says about its filtering.
If it says that it is 100% successful at blocking badstuff, then they
could be in trouble.
But what you'd hope they say is that they make a best effort attempt, but
users should still be vigilent and report dodgy activity to technical
support channels. Which is common sense anyway, but hey, litigation is
often a tool used to make up for a lack of common sense.
Jethro.
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> Brenda
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> Brenda Scourfield
> Team Leader,
> I.T.
> Pembrokeshire County Council,
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> Our organisation has an email filtering system which, for the most part
> is effective at removing spam emails from being delivered to individual
> officers, although occasionally the odd one get through.
>
> An officer has received a phishing email asking for their bank account
> details, which they haven't responded to, but have forwarded to our
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> This has prompted quite an interesting discussion - could the Council be
> held responsible for any losses which occur as a result of the
> individual proving their details in response to such an email?
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