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I received an email earlier today that is quite sneaky, and has been fairly well put together to scam people.

If you have a subscription to an anti-virus or security suite provider, such as AVG, Norton, McAfee, CA, Trend-Micro or any of the numerous others, then you will quite likely receive emails on an annual basis letting you know that your subscription needs to be renewed, or offering you upgrades, or some other deal.

If you have a look at the screen shot below of the email I received, there are a few things to look out for:

^{Photo by BionicTeaching / CC BY-SA 2.0}

A recent post by Ed over at Oz Domainer got me to thinking about this particular topic a bit more. Who is managing your domain names, and in particular, who is making sure that they get renewed?

Domain names are a vital asset for your business online. Whether you use a single domain name for all your business dealings, or whether you have a number of them, it is extremely important that they are managed properly, otherwise you could find your website isn't accessible, your email doesn't work, and you are losing potential business.

As of today, we have increased the quota's on all new and existing Hosted Exchange email accounts at no extra cost!

You absolutely will not be charged extra for this, it is a completely free upgrade.