TACTICS
This activity is when scammers get access to your information or break into your online accounts by guessing and using your password.
What is password compromise?
This is the crime committed via a computer with the intent to corrupt another individual’s personal and financial information stored online.
What is Cyber Fraud?
This is the acronym of Personal Identification Number.
What is PIN?
You always want to make this secure, long, random, complicated, and unique.
What is a password?
Without your knowledge or consent, this somebody uses your name, SIN and other personal identifying information.
What is an identity thief?
These sites have become more and more popular on catching the eye of criminals, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and others.
What are social media?
This is the minimum digits a Canadian debit or credit card PIN has to contain.
What is 4?
Prior to letting you successfully sign in a website with the correct password, this method is used to prevent unauthorized persons from singing in, by asking extra personal questions that the authorized person has set up before.
What are security questions?
This fraud tactic is designed to creep into your computer and create chaos on your systems to corrupt your files, mess up your applications, spy on your activities or copy your data.
What is malware?
This type of email is used as bait to lure you into giving out personal information.
What is phishing?
Based on Chief Executive, this is the percentage of breaches humans are responsible for.
What is over 90%?
This person is who you know it's safe to give out your PIN, passwords or account numbers to.
Who's nobody?
This is a scam in which criminals attempt to obtain personal information by pretending to be a legitimate business or other innocent party.
What is spoofing?
In this scam, criminals will persuade their victims to divulge their personal information or transfer money over the phone.
What is vishing?
Every this many seconds there is a hacker attack according to 2018 Cyber Solutions News.
What is 39?
This is the attitude you should have when you are about to click on unfamiliar links or visit unknown websites.
What is being suspicious?
This is a situation one could be in when their money or property is misused, often by someone they trust.
What is financial abuse?
In this scam, you receive an urgent text message on your smartphone with a link attached saying it’s from your bank and you need to access it in order to update your bank information.
What is smishing?
In 2019, nearly 45,000 Canadians fell victim to fraud, losing more than this many million dollars, according to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.
What is 96?
What are fraud experts?