Thursday, August 30, 2007

Bomb Threats - The risk to your business

There has been a recent rash of bomb threats to organizations to extort money. The caller threatens to detonate a bomb if money is not wired to an account. Some business's have wired the money....so expect copy cat type threats in the near future.

The truth is the risk of a bomb threat has a likelier occurrence than a bomb, so you should have a protocol for dealing with bomb threats.

Based on the earnings of your company to empty out a building for 2 to 4 hours could cost your company 50,000 or more easily.

Here is the link http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/extortion_threats083007.htm

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