Notice To NAWBO-OC Members Regarding Spam/Scam E-mail From This Website

In late 2004, all NAWBO-OC members' email links on this website were changed to links to a customized contact form. This was done to make it more difficult for spammers to send messages to members, and to prevent the sending of malicious content (e.g. viruses) via email links on the site.

Since we are ranked very high on popular search engines for key terms such as women's business group (on Google we were recently ranked #2 out of 103 million sites for this particular phrase) we are, unfortunately, getting a lot of visits from spammers and scammers, as well as legitimate individuals and businesses.

Thus, since late 2004, you have probably received several bogus emails using our contact form. Although the source of the email is now more obvious because the email subject reads "NAWBO Contact Form" we strongly believe the amount of spam from the site has actually declined. To further reduce this nuisance we are tracking the use of the form, following up on each instance of spam, and blocking senders if it is feasible to do so. However, we cannot prevent this entirely without eliminating all email links from the website, so we advise all members to ignore suspicious email messages. There is no need to report suspicious messages, as we are monitoring the site's email log.

Please note that you may also get legitimate messages with the email subject "NAWBO Contact Form" including inquiries from potential customers.

If you have any questions about this issue, or would prefer to have your email link removed entirely, please contact our webmaster. For more information on how to protect yourself from scam emails talk to your computer professional or see http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm.