Raising your awareness is the first step in keeping yourself safe and secure from potential fraudsters
Websites
Scam websites are fraudulent sites designed to deceive users for various purposes, including financial gain, identity theft,
or malware distribution. These sites often impersonate legitimate businesses, organisations, or government entities to gain
users’ trust and exploit their personal information or device vulnerabilities.
Social Media, Messaging Platforms and Apps
All of these can be used to facilitate fraud. The scammer often creates fake profiles, becomes friends with innocent people, and
then sends spam messages or links that lead to malicious sites. Scammers can also learn a lot about you from details you
share on your social media accounts. They create quizzes or posts designed to deceive you into sharing personal information,
which they use to try and guess account passwords or target you with other scams.
DO
- Use strong passwords, with a number of capital letters, numbers and special characters.
- Set up two-factor authentication.
- Secure your personal information.
- Stay informed on the latest cyber threats.
- Be careful with links and new website address.
- Check the senders email address before clicking on any links within an email.
DO NOT
- Respond to messages asking for personal or financial details.
- Click on links or attachments in suspicious emails or text messages.
- Open email from people you don’t know.
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