“Thousands of people have lost millions of dollars and their personal information to tax scams,” according to the IRS. The scams may come in through email, text messages, telephone calls or regular mail. Criminals regularly target both individuals and businesses and often prey on the elderly. Important: The IRS will never contact you by email,
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How to train your nonprofit’s employees to combat hackers
- By Victor Dozzi
- Non-Profit
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Employees are critical to your nonprofit’s cybersecurity. If they aren’t knowledgeable about social engineering schemes or safe browsing, they could open the door to hackers. Teach them how phishing, “vishing” and “smishing” scams work, and how to evade them. Also discourage mixing of personal and work accounts. Staffers shouldn’t access your nonprofit’s accounts on their
Jun 5, 2019
Fraud du jour: Social Security phone scams
- By Ellenbogen
- Fraud
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Despite the National Do Not Call registry and features such as caller ID, phone fraud is thriving in the mobile phone era. Using spoofed numbers — which appear to be connected to legitimate government offices and businesses or that resemble your own number — fraud perpetrators say anything and everything to try to steal your