Kendra Peterson: “I haven’t even been here for a month, and the spammers are using my email?!”

Kendra, our new Loveland-area Business Development and Municipal Relations Specialist, hasn’t even hit her one-month mark at Choice One, and already she’s made it “big”—as in, big enough for scammers to target a brand-new Choice One email account.

It didn’t take long for a bad actor to impersonate Kendra in a spam email to our HR administrator Brittany. Thankfully, the scam didn’t fool anyone. Adam Gill stepped in quickly to let Kendra know about our very real and definitely binding HR policy: “Anytime someone pretends to be you in a spam email, you have to bring in doughnuts. It’s a recent update we made in the employee handbook.” (Not sure if that clause was also spammed to HR, but we’re looking into it.)

No pressure Kendra, but in case you were wondering, most of us like sprinkles. And cream filled. And also the ones with frosting and little crumbles on top. So welcome to Choice One. You know you’re officially part of the team when you’re brought into the doughnut economy.