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Your email is a goldmine for cybercriminals because of the extensive amount of information an attacker can gain from it, making it important to protect your email from unauthorized access. To prevent scammers from accessing your email, you should use a passkey to log in (if available), enable MFA and have an email recovery option set up. Continue reading to learn the importance of protecting your email and the steps you should be taking to protect your email account.

Imagine your finance team receives an urgent email that appears to be from a trusted supplier, notifying them of an unexpected change in bank account details for an upcoming payment. The email looks professional, is detailed, and contains all the expected business formalities. Without hesitation, the team processes the payment to the new account. Days later, the actual supplier contacts you about the overdue invoice.

If you’re searching for a new job, do so with caution. The rise of job scams poses a real threat to our privacy, finances, and livelihoods. Online scammers are taking advantage of the increase in remote work, Artificial Intelligence, and a competitive job market to post fake job offers or other job scams online.

As we navigate through 2024, banking fraud continues to evolve, presenting new challenges for financial institutions. Driven by advancements in technology and changing economic conditions, these threats require banks to stay vigilant and adopt robust strategies to protect themselves and their customers.

If you’ve been scammed, there are different actions you should take based on what you were scammed into doing. For example, if you accidentally paid a scammer, you should contact your bank immediately. If you gave a scammer your login credentials, you should update your passwords and enable MFA immediately. If a scammer hacked your device, you should run antivirus software and possibly factory reset your device.

The sun produces enough energy every 90 minutes to power the world for a year. Despite this, in 2020, only around 0.2% of solar’s potential power production was utilized. Many organizations and nations have planned to move toward solar power. Still, consumers must have individual wealth, knowledge to vet potential installation companies, and wisdom to recognize and avoid potential traps.

In 2020, the world moved online, and the pandemic kicked industry demand into overdrive. Seemingly overnight, entire organizations yielded to the mandates pushed by health professionals, encouraging anyone not already online to make an account or two. That year, transaction card fraud totaled around $149 million in losses in the US and has only increased since then, up to $48 billion globally.