Face-to-face meetings still important in the era of IT

Digital communication is an efficient tool, but brings with it inherent dangers.

- Ann Callaghan

I received an email today from one of our “members” requesting me to click on an electronic signature tab to sign a contract/confidentiality agreement.

Having known this member for quite some time, and also being quite sure I hadn't planned to sign a contract with him, little alarm bells sounded.

I contacted him the old-fashioned way (by phone) and had a conversation. Of course he hadn't sent the request, but I needed to let him know that his email was being used by someone that wasn't him.

This situation was about the third one in the space of a week that I had encountered during my day-to-day office activities and it got me thinking about the loss of production in our country because of scammers.