Protect your accounts

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This podcast covers some simple ways you can use strong passwords on all your apps and devices to protect both your accounts and your identity.

Unsolicited emails and messages and links are confidence tricks that allows scammers to steal from you. Recently the Sewover50 account received what looked like a copyright infringement notification from Instagram but it was a scam message that had a suspicious link that could have compromised all the hard work that the Judith and Sandy have done over the last 3 years. Thankfully no one clicked on the suspicious link and all is well for Sewover50.

This podcast gives you some simple ways to protect yourself online. Jenny chats about the levels of protection she uses on her all of her online devices. This way she feels much safer online shopping and using an avatar to be her online gaming self.

Always feel free to directly contact the companies you think are sending your messages of demand for payments. You'll hear more about the simple ways you can protect yourself online.

The podcast blog post has a number of reputable organisation that can help you be more secure online. Always feel free to contact the organisation you think has contacted you to ensure you are really dealing with the company or department that you think has sent your a demand for payment. Be sure and know the organisations your have relationships with are there to protect you from scammers.