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NEWS FOR YOU
DRIVING ABROAD?
Traveling by roads in a foreign country is often hazardous enough with poorly maintained surfaces, hazards in the roadway, and distrusted law enforcement. Add to this the threat of carjacking with its continued rise in frequency and operation across borders and there is a strong need for avoidance and mitigation. Step 1: Plan Ahead Account for the high crime areas, less visible roads, and high-traffic intersections. Step 2: Be Proactive Lock your doors and keep windows up in these areas. Don’t stop to assist others (report to police instead of becoming a victim). Watch for others watching you abnormally and keep an escape route open. Step 3: Identify the Tactics “Bumping” – Criminals may bump your vehicle lightly making you feel obligated to stop and assess the damage with them. That’s when the criminal or accomplices assault you. “Good Samaritan” – Criminals pretend to need urgent help making you feel obligated to stop and assist. That’s when criminals assault you. “Trapping” – Criminals prepare a location with congested traffic or limited egress thus trapping your vehicle from escape. The criminals then intimidate, force, or assault drivers. |
TIPS & ADVICE
RISING THREAT AWARENESS
We use PDF files in a variety of ways to send contracts and locked documents across platforms. Therefore, we may have gotten comfortable with them and just plain complacent with our trust. With a huge jump in attacks by way of pdfs, here is your reminder to be a bit more suspicious.
~ Identify and trust the source before you open or click on links it contains
~ Use a trustworthy anti-virus/anti-malware software to scan before you open it
~ Hover over the links before opening to help identify where the link may be sending you
~ Go to the source and login instead of opening their “short-cuts”
Stay Safe and Diligent!
Here’s a couple of visual examples from AVG
We use PDF files in a variety of ways to send contracts and locked documents across platforms. Therefore, we may have gotten comfortable with them and just plain complacent with our trust. With a huge jump in attacks by way of pdfs, here is your reminder to be a bit more suspicious.
~ Identify and trust the source before you open or click on links it contains
~ Use a trustworthy anti-virus/anti-malware software to scan before you open it
~ Hover over the links before opening to help identify where the link may be sending you
~ Go to the source and login instead of opening their “short-cuts”
Stay Safe and Diligent!
Here’s a couple of visual examples from AVG
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OH FUN! AN AIRLINE TICKET SCAM
There are over 148 million airline bookings made every year. That means travelers purchase over 406,000 tickets every day. This also means over 400,000 people expect airlines to contact them anytime with updates, schedule changes, or other requests.
So no surprise that almost half a million people are in a pool of potential victims daily when it comes to financial fraud. Daily.
Now let’s say you are one of them – it’s just like you would be using any other airline: Southwest, United, Emirates, Delta, American Airlines, Lufthansa, etc. Minutes after booking your trip and paying a tremendous amount of money, you receive this email:
“Dear Passenger,
Thank you for booking with FSAflightsRus.com. We have received your booking under reference 392A8PK, and we are reviewing your payment.
To ensure we can finalize your payment verification, please provide additional payment information: a cardholder passport copy and a credit card statement within 48 hours by following this link:
https://www.fsaflghtsrus.com/en/verify-credit-card.html?pnr=82662
Yours sincerely,
FSA Flights R Us Support”
Look. Here are just four giveaways that it’s a scam:
1. No Specific Person Is Addressed
If you look carefully at the content of the email, you will see that it says “Dear Passenger”. This is a dead giveaway that it’s a phishing email. Airlines send you updates using your name.
2. No Flight Details
The content of the email doesn’t mention anything about the destination, price, or departure time.
3. The Embedded Links Are Not Related to that Airline
If you hover your mouse cursor above each link, you should see that each one will take you to an external website with nothing to do with the airline or its business domain.
4. The Email Address Is Misspelled
The email address that was used for the email above has a domain name, “FSAflghtsrus.com”, which is missing an "i".
Be careful with these things.
DON’T CLICK ON IT.
DELETE IT OR REPORT IT AS SPAM.
There are over 148 million airline bookings made every year. That means travelers purchase over 406,000 tickets every day. This also means over 400,000 people expect airlines to contact them anytime with updates, schedule changes, or other requests.
So no surprise that almost half a million people are in a pool of potential victims daily when it comes to financial fraud. Daily.
Now let’s say you are one of them – it’s just like you would be using any other airline: Southwest, United, Emirates, Delta, American Airlines, Lufthansa, etc. Minutes after booking your trip and paying a tremendous amount of money, you receive this email:
“Dear Passenger,
Thank you for booking with FSAflightsRus.com. We have received your booking under reference 392A8PK, and we are reviewing your payment.
To ensure we can finalize your payment verification, please provide additional payment information: a cardholder passport copy and a credit card statement within 48 hours by following this link:
https://www.fsaflghtsrus.com/en/verify-credit-card.html?pnr=82662
Yours sincerely,
FSA Flights R Us Support”
Look. Here are just four giveaways that it’s a scam:
1. No Specific Person Is Addressed
If you look carefully at the content of the email, you will see that it says “Dear Passenger”. This is a dead giveaway that it’s a phishing email. Airlines send you updates using your name.
2. No Flight Details
The content of the email doesn’t mention anything about the destination, price, or departure time.
3. The Embedded Links Are Not Related to that Airline
If you hover your mouse cursor above each link, you should see that each one will take you to an external website with nothing to do with the airline or its business domain.
4. The Email Address Is Misspelled
The email address that was used for the email above has a domain name, “FSAflghtsrus.com”, which is missing an "i".
Be careful with these things.
DON’T CLICK ON IT.
DELETE IT OR REPORT IT AS SPAM.
