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Scam Alert to Highlight Methods of Fraud Challenge Online privacy and security is a major point today, with people becoming more and more hooked on the internet. Terms like phishing, identity theft and many other have become identical with the internet and are responsible for giving Internet users sleepless nights. Result of these threats is that, today we have to spend a lot of time and resources to make safe our online activities. Today every institution, be it banks, schools, research institutes, financial firms, etc all are adopting security measures like sending regular security updates via e-mails to their particular stakeholders to keep them posted on and protected from such online frauds. Sunrise PC Support, source of on-demand remote tech support services, is launching the ‘ Sunrise PC Support Scam Alerts in an attempt to help you to identify these scams and handle them properly.

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Online privacy and security is a major point today, with people becoming more and more hooked on the internet. Terms like phishing, identity theft and many other have become identical with the internet and are responsible for giving Internet users sleepless nights. Result of these threats is that, today we have to spend a lot of time and resources to make safe our online activities.

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Scam Alert to Highlight Methods of Fraud Challenge

Online privacy and security is a major point today, with people becoming more

and more hooked on the internet. Terms like phishing, identity theft and many

other have become identical with the internet and are responsible for giving

Internet users sleepless nights. Result of these threats is that, today we have to

spend a lot of time and resources to make safe our online activities. Today every

institution, be it banks, schools, research institutes, financial firms, etc all are

adopting security measures like sending regular security updates via e-mails to

their particular stakeholders to keep them posted on and protected from such

online frauds. Sunrise PC Support, source of on-demand remote tech support

services, is launching the ‘Sunrise PC Support Scam Alerts’ in an attempt to help

you to identify these scams and handle them properly.

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Importance of identifying online frauds The Internet is the very powerful and easiest way to reach out to a bulk audience. A specialty it posses is that, it is a cheaper mode of interaction and gives access to the huge information spread across the Web. They design trustworthy looking messages, using logos of authentic companies and brands, as well as rewards of prominent peoples, to target the receivers of these mails. New cyber frauds are evolving almost every day and with things like domain phishing, it’s getting almost impossible to differentiate between reliable online sellers and cyber criminals. However, you can cut down the risks by a large margin if you stay alert and take preventive measures, like installing a powerful antivirus program on your system, and by avoiding unsolicited links, to mention a few. Popular forms of online fraud Some of frauds being Work-at-home where one is deluded to believe that large sums of money can be earned by simply working from home, Charity fraud where phonies fool you in the name of collecting charity, Credit card fraud scams traders and businesses through fabricated credit cards payments during online transactions, frauds that target buyers and sellers on Internet Mart sites and cause victims huge losses by not delivering the votive amount after the transactions have taken place, and many more. Sunrise PC Support aims to highlight all the popular ways that scam artists use to appear genuine so that they can gain your confidence before finally cheating you.

What needs to be done? Sunrise PC Support always suggests:

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It’s good to be in doubt when you get an offer from an unknown sender or a

stranger. Ask yourself: Why me? What benefit is he/ she getting out of it? Always ask for company facts or information sheet and read through carefully. Be alert of unwanted offers, e-mails, and links. Always use your spam filter to minimize the occurrence of fake e-mails in your

inbox. Change your online passwords regularly and only keep strong passwords. Update your antivirus and anti-spam software to make it difficult for scammers to

retrieve your data. Ask questions and check out the answers.

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