BBB flooded with scam reports

FORT COLLINS — Fraudulent e-mails that look like Better Business Bureau complaints have triggered a flurry of calls to the agency’s Fort Collins-based headquarters for Northern Colorado and southeast Wyoming.

The “phishing” scam is similar to a previous e-mail-based scam, but this time targets addresses ending in .gov and .edu as well as other business addresses. The bureau began receiving calls Thursday from recipients seeking information about the complaints. The return e-mail addresses, although not legitimate, are similar enough to the addresses of genuine BBB agencies to be questionable.

Local BBB spokeswoman Barbara Read said legitimate e-mail addresses from the agency’s dispute…