Did you know that Social engineering is the art of manipulating people so they give up confidential information?
Criminals target individuals into giving them their passwords or bank information. They can also access your computer to secretly install malicious software which allows them access to your passwords and bank information as well as giving them control over your computer
Beware of any download, especially if you don’t know the sender personally.
Foreign offers from a fake lottery, sweepstakes, an unknown relative or requests to transfer funds from a foreign country for a share of the money are guaranteed to be fake or a scam.
Scam emails come with obvious misspellings and grammar errors.
Set your spam filters to high. Every email program has spam filters. To find yours, look under your settings options, and set these high–just remember to check your spam folder periodically to see if legitimate email has been accidentally trapped there. You can also search for a step-by-step guide to setting your spam filters by searching on the name of your email provider plus the phrase ’spam filters’.
Secure your computing devices. Install anti-virus software, firewalls, email filters and keep these up-to-date.
Set your operating system to automatically update. Use an anti-phishing tool to alert you to risks
Remember: The Threat is Real!