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New scams keep coming, but most scammers use the old tricks. Keep your eyes open for unexpected senders, grammatical errors, and shortened links.

Here’s a real life screen shot of a banking smish received lately and shared by permission (with a few bits removed). Note that the domain isn’t related to Bank of America like the scam claims. How many red flags can you spot?

Paying with a credit card gives you the option to dispute the charge. Keep receipts while you're out and compare them to your statements--even if that's not normally your thing. It will help you catch up with anything that might have caught up with you while you were away from home.

It may seem a silly little thing, but go ahead and shield the PIN pad at the checkout and the ATM. Physically obscuring the number you enter can go a long way! https://frontlinemsp.com/articles/keeping-your-pin-secure/

Keeping Your PIN Secure Covering the keypad is great but paying attention to form can increase your PIN;s security. How do you keep your PIN from skimmers?