{"id":7885,"date":"2020-07-14T12:10:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:37:52","slug":"watch-out-for-scamsters-who-are-phishing-for-e-information-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/watch-out-for-scamsters-who-are-phishing-for-e-information-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for scamsters who are Phishing for e-information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Phishing is a cybercrime&nbsp;which involves luring individuals into providing sensitive&nbsp;information, like passwords of&nbsp;online bank accounts and\/or&nbsp;credit card details.&nbsp;This&nbsp;information is then&nbsp;used to commit theft which results in financial loss to the victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>How can you avoid becoming a victim of phishing?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keep your password a secret and change it regularly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Refrain from using cyber cafes to access your online accounts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoid typing in your password in unknown computers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Log-out when you exit net banking to ensure that your secure session is terminated.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep your computer secure by installing anti-virus software and keeping it up to date.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep your computer secure by installing a firewall.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be alert when reading banking\/credit card related emails.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Most importantly, refrain from revealing any personal information over the net since banks\u00a0<strong>do not<\/strong>\u00a0seek such details in this fashion.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>What if you fall prey to a phishing attack?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have been conned by fraudulent e-mails and have revealed\u00a0passwords,\u00a0personal banking\/credit card information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Immediately reset your passwords<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enable 2 factor authentication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contact your bank\u2019s customer service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Report the fake site to cyber police or CERT-IN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing is a cybercrime&nbsp;which involves luring individuals into providing sensitive&nbsp;information, like passwords of&nbsp;online bank accounts and\/or&nbsp;credit card details.&nbsp;This&nbsp;information is then&nbsp;used to commit theft which results in financial loss to the victim. How can you avoid becoming a victim of phishing? Always\u2026 What if you fall prey to a phishing attack? If you have been conned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8119,"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions\/8119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/13.235.158.174\/hfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}