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Spotting scams is literally his job, so you’d think the LAST person who would fall for one would be Local 4 Consumer Investigator Hank Winchester. But his story proves that truly anyone can get taken by a clever con.

An email to the alumni of Cranbrook informed the school community of an ongoing investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct against a now-deceased faculty member who taught at the boy’s school from 1946 to 1961.The email says a male alumnus of the school from that time period alerted the school to the accusation.

A file containing Mistar Parent connect pins and passwords, students names and grades, and addresses was sent out to Royal Oak High School seniors and their parents.

A case of an accidental email resulted in retaliation against an Auburn Hills boutique.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel wants people to beware of emails from someone attempting to impersonate her with a fake account.

BRUSSELS – European Union lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of a “right to disconnect” from the internet and email, with around one third of people now working from home across the 27-nation bloc due in large part to coronavirus restrictions. “The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we work and we must update our rules to catch up with the new reality,” said Maltese Socialist lawmaker Alex Agius Saliba, who led work on the resolution. The resolution, which is non-binding, was passed by 31 votes to 6 against, with 18 abstentions in the European Parliament’s Employment Committee. It must still have to be rubber stamped by the full house, then submitted to the commission and national EU governments for possible endorsement. They say home workers should be able to disconnect without facing repercussions from their employers.

MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A Macomb pastor is facing backlash online over an email he sent to a journalist in response to a quote attributed to the woman that was later identified as fake. Dave Muns sent to journalist Sarah Jeong was posted on Jeong’s Twitter account Tuesday afternoon. Only in a world where journalism is controlled by brain dead Liberals do you people even have jobs,” read the email. The entire ordeal is something Muns plans to discuss with his congregation Sunday. He plans to do so as soon as he restarts his email, which he suspended Tuesday because the tweet and thread are still growing.

Don’t forget to check your email because you may receive an email from the U.S. Census Bureau in the near future. In an effort to gathering more responses, the bureau is planning to email more than 20 million households in low-responding areas through September to encourage them to take part in the census. This will include residents who have already filled out the census but live in the low-response areas. The city of Detroit’s census response rate was 47.9 percent as of July 15. The deadline for households to respond to the 2020 Census is Oct. 31.

If you’re a person who receives lots of email newsletters, or even just lots of email in general, journalist Ann Friedman offered this advice: Sometimes you have to give yourself permission to do a bulk-delete. She writes her own newsletter and receives many more. “I think everybody’s inbox is (like) their home,” Friedman told “The Best Advice Show” host Zak Rosen. “And I can choose to opt in or not that week,” Friedman said. Friedman tries to treat her inbox as an extension of her priorities elsewhere -- the show will tell you exactly what that means.

DETROIT – The city of Detroit announced Thursday that a handful of city employee email accounts were potentially exposed during a breach of data, possibly compromising hundreds of water department customers’ sensitive information. The Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) was able to “quickly respond and contain the breach to fewer than 10 affected accounts,” reads a statement from the city. Some of the compromised accounts contained sensitive data belonging to city of Detroit employees, Chief Information Office Beth Niblock said. DWSD customers’ info may be compromisedThe city also said that as part of this breach sensitive information from fewer than 300 of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department’s (DWSD) customers could have been compromised, too. Related: Michigan Medicine issues alert after data breach exposes personal information of patients