Safe Practices
Software designed to protect you from harmful programs and software on your computer.
What are antiviruses?
Where do dangerous offers appear? (name 2)
What are emails, online advertisements, or texts?
Discrete and hard to detect devices placed on payment terminals.
What is skimming?
Enhance features, patch security issues, and improves performance
What are software updates?
Apps that filter out calls and messages that are likely spam
What are call filtering apps?
Malware that locks your computer, files, and data, while asking for money to retrieve them.
What is ransomware?
Apps that encrypt and keep our internet connections safe online
What are VPNs?
What is the National Do Not Call List?
What are places that skimmers appear?
offering or requesting money, having a sense of urgency, and offering discounts and coupons
What are dangerous offers?
Calls that seem suspsicous and ask for money and other personal information
What are scam calls?
Apps that store and keep track of our passwords
What are password managers?
A type of offer that states that something has been deactivated
Accidentally refunding too much money
What is a refund scam?