Don’t be the victim of a scam this holiday season. Read John Wilson’s latest contribution to Forbes Advisor where he shares 8 common holiday scams and provides tips on how to avoid them.
Remember the rules of the cybersecurity road apply doubly during the holidays. Stay alert to keep your season fun and festive.
Originally published in Forbes Advisor
Excerpt:
"The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been receiving record numbers of complaints each year about fraud schemes targeting consumers. - These ploys work because we often don’t know what we don’t know. If your brother sends two packages of gifts and only one arrives, you may not know anything is missing. Likewise, if a gift card you sent has been stripped of funds, the recipient may be too embarrassed to tell you.”
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