It often pays to look a gift horse in the mouth – recognizing these types of gift card fraud will go a long way toward helping you stay safe from this growing threat not just this holiday season. It’s that time of the year again, when we’re all online looking for presents to give and … More 5 common gift card scams and how to spot them
With the holiday shopping bonanza right around the corner, here’s how to make sure your online spending spree is hacker-free. Black Friday is almost upon us and Cyber Monday is just around the corner, which means that most of us will be on the hunt for the perfect bargain. Which, to be honest, we will … More Avoiding the shopping blues: How to shop online safely this holiday season
Most people are fans of the convenience Amazon brings to online shopping, and that’s precisely what cybercriminals are betting on. Amazon is the largest online marketplace in the world boasting over US$386 billion in revenue in 2020 with 200 million subscribers to its Amazon Prime service just in the United States. And that’s just a … More Watch out for these scams targeting Amazon customers
From knock-off designer products to too-good-to-be-true job offers, here are five common schemes fraudsters use to trick teenagers out of their money and sensitive data. Most teenagers, while not as impressionable as small children, can still be subjected to various external influences. If you’re one of them, you probably haven’t experienced the many ups and … More 5 common scams targeting teens – and how to stay safe
ESET reveals that only 29% of consumers worldwide feel very secure when shopping online, yet 61% of all consumers are shopping online more often than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. ESET has explored the topic of online shopping and banking in the consumer segment of its global financial technology (FinTech) research, surveying 10,000 consumers … More Less than a third of consumers worldwide feel very secure when shopping online, yet more than half are doing so more frequently than pre-pandemic, ESET reveals
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