Go to... Phishing Emails Home/Phishing Emails Over the last year we have seen a rise in malicious and phishing emails being circulated. At HFMC your privacy and protection is important to us. If you suspect you have received a suspicious email please forward it as an attachment (if possible) to stephanie.whiting@hfmcwealth.com for further investigation. Here are a few top tips on how to spot fraudulent emails: The sender’s email address doesn’t match either HFMC Wealth’s website domain, which is hfmcwealth.com or our central marketing email address which is news@hfmc-wealth.com If you receive an email purporting to be from HFMC from a different domain please alert us immediately. The email is sent from a free web mail address such as Hotmail or Gmail etc The email does not use your proper name, but uses a non-specific greeting like “dear customer”. The email has a sense of urgency and a call to action; for example the threat that unless you act immediately your funds make be at risk The email has a prominent website link. These can be forged or seem very similar to the proper address, but even a single character difference means a different website. The HFMC Group’s websites are as follows – hfmcwealth.com, hfmcam.com and releasingequitysoutheast.com. The email contains a request for personal information such as username, password or bank details. The email contains spelling and grammatical errors. You weren’t expecting to get an email from the company that appears to have sent it. The entire text of the email is contained within an image rather than the usual text format. The image contains an embedded hyperlink to a bogus site. Please find links below from the National Cyber Security Centre for further advice on staying secure online. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/top-tips-for-staying-secure-online LONDON CITY OFFICE 29 St John’s Lane Clerkenwell London EC1M 4NA t: +44 20 7400 4700 WEYBRIDGE OFFICE HFMC House New Road Weybridge Surrey KT13 9BW t: + 44 1932 870000 PRIVACY & COMPLIANCE Privacy notice Legal and compliance Important Information USEFUL CONTACTS Financial Conduct Authority Financial Ombudsman Service Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) INSIGHTS / PRESS / AWARDS Winner – Top 25 Financial Planner – FT Money HFMC Wealth is ranked as one of the top 100 IFAs in the UK CHARITY AND COMMUNITY COPYRIGHT ©2021 HFMC WEALTH LTD | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MEDIA ENQUIRIES: PHIL BRAY AT THE YARDSTICK AGENCY T: +44 07785 284429 E: HI@THEYARDSTICKAGENCY.CO.UK WEB DESIGN AGENCY WEYBRIDGE-IT LinkedIn Twitter × Read our latest advice on what to look for if you suspect an email to be malicious Learn more