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This week we are going to continue our focus on Cybersecurity Awareness with some facts about the impact of cybercrime.  I would like to thank our IT Manager, Tate Nance, for providing this important information!  He has included references as well so you can check those out if you would like to learn even more.  […]

Welcome to October and another edition of Fraud Friday!  October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM), so the focus of this month’s Fridays will be just that. It is interesting to me that October was chosen for CAM since all things spooky are usually associated with this month.  Cyber criminals are bad actors who put on

Recently I learned that September is National Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Awareness Month.  With this being the last Friday in the month, let’s take a look at Healthcare Fraud; what it is, common types, and how to protect yourself.   Healthcare fraud is committed when someone intentionally deceives the health care system to receive illegal

Fraud is defined as wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain; it can also be a person or thing intended to deceive others.  As we know, fraud can be perpetrated in many ways and can affect anyone at any time.  We spend a lot of time learning about different scams

For this week’s Fraud Friday, I want to touch on a subject that almost every parent does, but no one really thinks about.  Something that can have a long-lasting effect on children and could have a potential negative impact on them for the rest of their lives.   A relatively new term for me, Sharenting.  The

Have you ever been casually scrolling Facebook or online shopping and suddenly get a pop up saying you have a virus?  What about a phone call or random text or email saying you have been hacked?  These are tactics commonly used in Phantom Hacker Scams.   Phantom Hacker scams are a sophisticated type of tech support

In today’s digital world, it is easier than ever to earn money online.  People are constantly looking for ways to add some income, and scammers are taking full advantage.  One rising threat is the Task Scam, also known as gamified job schemes.  This type of fraud lures people in with small online tasks and the

This edition of Fraud Friday comes to us via an email I received from Fraud.org warning of the dangers of Law Enforcement Imposter Scams.  While there are many different types of imposter scams, someone pretending to be a law enforcement officer has to be one of the worst.  As a child, we are taught that

Money wiring scams involve a fraudster persuading a victim to send money electronically through a wire transfer.  There are many different services that can be used to wire money: Western Union, MoneyGram, and bank wires are a few.  Money wires require guaranteed funds in order to be sent, and once that money is gone, it