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I always think those email scammers are a bit thick though because a lot of them come from what look like someone’s personal email address. And often misspelled. And/or the logo doesn’t look quite right.
I just ignore anything I’m unsure about anyway!To paraphrase (oft attributed to Lincoln) – you only have to convince some of the people…
Send 1m emails. Get a 0.001% response – result!! I can send you an email from any account – potus@whitehouse.com – but your SPAM filter will detect it; so better create potus.com domain (available!) and send legitimate mail from there. (Trump@potus.com) – I hope you delete that one too 😏
2FA is your friend. Not perfect – but better than 1FA
Yes They can be very convincing.
The simple rule is treat all unsolicited emails or texts like cold calls never where they proport to be from , just say no, or for emails texts , delete straight away.
If you’ve been conned 2FA doesn’t help a push fraud.
The banks spend £100s of millions on fraud compensation, why they don’t spend at least 10% of that amount on anti-fraud education.
Back to the point of this thread, having your banking app, your National insurance, your driving licence, your passport, all on one easily stolen device is asking for trouble.
Back to the point of this thread, having your banking app, your National insurance, your driving licence, your passport, all on one easily stolen device is asking for trouble.
And all secured and encrypted. All of those things I share with many organisations, some of whom have been hacked.
Most of those things now have 2FA or additional security (biometrics for a passport, chip for a bank card, fingerprint for a phone).
And all secured and encrypted.
… until it isn’t. I hear that phone snatchers in London are trying to keep the phone on, unlocked, and in airplane mode (to prevent a remote lock/wipe) before they sell it on. I don’t know what they hope to do with an unlocked but offline phone but I now have an Apple automation on my phone to lock the phone as soon as airplane is enabled.
Having said that I do trust Apple with my bank details and cards and various other very important things on my phone, and I do trust their biometrics for unlock. It’s a huge upgrade in security terms versus carrying various physical things in a wallet.
I also bought one of those security chains that are fixed to the protective case which I use when out and about.
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