Spoofing Emails

By: Kevin McKeown

It has come to our attention that some of our Dealers have been the target of an email “spoofing” campaign.  These unknown, would-be criminals will poorly impersonate a Pickering Labs employee and may even have a pickeringlabs.com email address.  The email may ask for personal information, sales information or are even bold enough to ask for banking details.  Thankfully, our wonderful partners have sniffed out these bad actors and nothing has been compromised.  We want to stress that if you receive an email from an unknown Pickering Labs employee to please contact our Sales Manager, Kevin McKeown (kmckeown@pickeringlabs.com) to verify the veracity of any communication.  Unfortunately, it is best to be skeptical in these uncertain times and we appreciate any chance to interact.

Some examples are below, including using a plausible (but fake) email address and contact from a Pickering Labs employee that you do not normally converse with:

Example 1: Body of an email that is asking for permission to send something, sent by an irregular contact from Pickering Labs

“Pickering Laboratories has a new procurement partnership proposal for an upcoming international project that I believe aligns well with your teams capabilities, and I wanted to reach out to you directly to share the preliminary details.

Given our existing partnership, we would like to involve your team in this process

Please let me know if I may send the proposal details for your review.”

Example 2: Notice the “pickeringlab.com”, as opposed to the correct, “pickeringlabs.com”