What to do if someone is sending you threatening emails?
What to do if someone is sending you threatening emails?
Contact your local law enforcement agency, and provide them with copies of the emails and file an official report. Filing a police report will put your case on record, and in the event anything happens to you, your family or your property (such as arson or car theft), the police will have this information on file.
What would you do if someone sent you an email at work that you found offensive?
As for addressing this employee, counsel the employee on the email communication policy (if applicable), and inform him that the email sent with the offensive joke is considered a form of harassment.
What is an offensive email?
Offensive Emails Any email that’s discriminatory, insulting, degrading, sexual or violent constitutes as an offensive email. Foul language is also offensive to some people.
What to do if someone sends you a wrong email?
Forward It. Don’t Delete It. If this is an office situation and you get a single message that was intended for someone else, send it on to the person it was supposed to get to. CC the original sender and let them know that you’re passing it along and they made a mistake by sending it to you.
What to do if you get an email from someone else?
If you’re getting email that appears to be intended for someone else to your personal addresses, it’s also likely nothing big or important, and as we said, only send it along if you know who it’s supposed to go to, and only reply if the sender is a real person.
How to send a harsh email without being offensive?
No one wants to feel like an idiot (or like you think they’re stupid). So, while you don’t want to beat around the bush, it’s important to take the time to point to one strength of the other person’s work. Try, I can see where [whatever positive thing they did] would lead to [positive effect.]
What to do if someone sends you a message that is intended for someone else?
If you have no idea who the message is supposed to go to though, a simple response to the sender will more often than not get you off the hook (assuming the sender is a real person.) Let them know that you got the message, but you’re clearly not the person it’s intended for, and move on.
No one wants to feel like an idiot (or like you think they’re stupid). So, while you don’t want to beat around the bush, it’s important to take the time to point to one strength of the other person’s work. Try, I can see where [whatever positive thing they did] would lead to [positive effect.]
If you’re getting email that appears to be intended for someone else to your personal addresses, it’s also likely nothing big or important, and as we said, only send it along if you know who it’s supposed to go to, and only reply if the sender is a real person.
Forward It. Don’t Delete It. If this is an office situation and you get a single message that was intended for someone else, send it on to the person it was supposed to get to. CC the original sender and let them know that you’re passing it along and they made a mistake by sending it to you.
If you have no idea who the message is supposed to go to though, a simple response to the sender will more often than not get you off the hook (assuming the sender is a real person.) Let them know that you got the message, but you’re clearly not the person it’s intended for, and move on.