Burgdorff ERA email system attacked by worm scam

Plainfield Today just learned (at noon) of an email worm scam attack on Burgdorff ERA email system users early this morning.

The screenshot above shows the message that was in some agent's mailboxes when they logged on to the real estate agency's servers.

That's the scary part.

The good part is that the Metro area's IT manager, Charlie Batilo, was johnny-on-the-spot, notifying all agents via an email blast that the message was a scam.

Not only that, he explained the action he was taking (blocking the link in the message) and outlined the corporate policy on handling patches (they are pushed from the corporate servers to the system users without the users having to intervene in the process).

Kudos to an organization that knows how to keep its business communications as safe as possible!

-- Dan Damon

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