If you have a bid proposal in your inbox right now, you should think twice before opening it. One of the recent scams on computers around the country involves using an individual’s email address to send bid documents to other people in their contact list. The real sender invites you to download the Request for Proposal (RFP) disguised as malware. The Better Business Bureau recommends confirming the validity of the RFP by reaching out to the provided contact person and looking for it on the organization’s website. You should also be cautious if the RFP is generic and don’t believe what you see, even if it looks real. According to NordVPN, there were nearly 200,000 phishing attacks, 65 percent of which came via email. The success rate is climbing, as is the amount of money lost in phishing scams. At $2.8 billion in losses, business email compromise was the second most costly across more than 21,000 incidents.