Tag: security
It’s Time to Spring Clean your Internet Connected Devices…
It’s time to spring clean your internet connected devices…
Jersey Police, Airtel-Vodafone, Sure, JT & Digital Jersey endorse the ‘Get Safe Online’ campaign for us all to spring clean our computers, laptops, tablets & phones, to help prevent you from becoming a victim of cybercrime.
This follows recent research revealing over half of Brits have experienced an online crime – it seems that people are not taking the necessary precautions to protect their technology. Just one in four puts security software on their mobiles or tablets (26% and 25% respectively), putting them at a significantly higher risk of spyware, spam, viruses and fraud.
Read MoreWhat is the Jersey Fraud Prevention Forum?
What is the Jersey Fraud Prevention Forum
The Jersey Fraud Prevention Forum will seek to develop a coordinated and strategic approach to the protection of the Island’s general public from investment frauds and scams between the agencies concerned. J
A number of local agencies have joined forces to help protect islanders from fraud and scams. The launch will initiate the first of many campaigns to highlight and raise awareness of the dangers of fraud in particular phone and mail scams.
Read MoreProtecting your Personal Data
Protecting your Personal Data
Do you really know what you’re doing?
In this fast moving and sometimes expensive world in which we live, it is no surprise that we do whatever we can to make life easier, more efficient and more cost effective for ourselves. We subscribe to online newspapers and magazines so we don’t have to take a trip down the road in the rain to buy one off the shelf. We fill our wallets with loyalty cards because ‘points make prizes’ (or savings on our weekly shop at least).
Read MoreTrue Call
True Call
Do you get annoyed when you fill in a form and have to enter your phone number even when you know that the company doesn’t really need it?
Your privacy is valuable – protect your phone number with trueCall38! – suggested by Which Consumer Group.
What are they going to do with it? Who will they give it to?
Read MoreP.O.Box 500
P O Box 500
No Stamp Needed
A brave lady presented bundles of her SCAM mail to us earlier this year; she is receiving up to 8 letters a day mostly tempting her to buy her magical lottery winnings, how to secure inheritance monies & psychic help. Pat says…
’If you are receiving any of these SCAM letters please, please do not be too embarrassed to come forward & USE THE P O Box 500, so that Jersey Post & the Police can gauge the extent of the problem, The scammers are targeting the elderly and vulnerable people and it needs to STOP’
We firmly believe that Pat is just a number of Jersey residents who are being bombarded by SCAM mail – Age Concern members confirmed that many of them are also targets for these attempted fraud letters.
Read MoreStaying Secure at Cashpoints
Staying Secure at Cashpoints
LINK is the UK’s cash machine network, providing you with access to your cash. The number of free machines is at an all time high, and to help you manage your money effectively you can also check your balance free of charge at any LINK machine.
Despite some recent high-profile incidents, cash machine crime is very uncommon. LINK have provided a number of simple steps which all cardholders can take to help fight ATM crime :
Read MoreDirect Debit Bandits at Bay
Danger: Direct Debit Bandits at Bay
Have you checked your statements lately?
When was the last time you checked your bank statements? Are you aware of all the direct debits you currently have set up? And did you know that ANYONE can initiate a direct debit on your account, so long as they have the correct sort code and account number?
Theft through fraudulent direct debits is becoming an increasing problem and it is estimated that well over 100,000 Britons have fallen victim. Back in 2010 (interestingly, the most recent statistics we could find), insurance group LV= found that direct debit (DD) fraud accounted for over 10% of ALL identity theft.
Read MoreWhat are Contactless Payments?
What is Contactless?
Contactless is a function on certain debit, credit and prepaid cards that allows you to make a quick and easy payment for goods or services for an amount that is £30 or less without entering a PIN.
The embedded chip allows you to wave or place your card over a reader at the point of sale.
Where you see the contactless wave displayed (like the one on this page) and have a contactless card (debit, credit or prepaid), you can make a contactless payment where the amount is for less than £30.
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