If available, sign up to receive an alert whenever your cards make a transaction. If you ever receive a suspicious alert, you’ll be the first to know. This way you can quickly contact your bank or credit card company to alert them of the fraud on your account and prevent any further damages.

Disregard emails or messages that create a sense of urgency and command you to respond to a crisis, such as a problem with your taxes or bank account. These Imposter Scams transpire when you receive an email or call apparently from a government official, family member, or friend urgently requesting that you wire them money […]

Be sure to set up cloud backup for important data on your phone, such as: Contacts. Pictures. Videos. Apps. Email data. This ensures you can recover your data and information should something happen to your smartphone and makes it easy to access important assets from other devices in the meantime. Make sure your cloud storage […]

If you want to give someone on a message board or social network you email address, it’s best to send it to them via a private or direct message. Alternatively, you can type out the address, substituting actual words for the “@” and “.” symbols. This method protects you from having your email captured by […]

It’s common when out of office or on a trip to set up an auto-reply message for any emails you may receive while you’re away. You can set up these messages to say nearly anything, but keep in mind that you shouldn’t give out specifics about where you’ll be or otherwise for safety reasons, as […]

Having multiple email addresses can help keep your inbox clear so important correspondence will always be visible. Try having at least two separate emails, one for ecommerce and newsletters, the other for professional correspondence or job searching. This ensures that the most important messages never get buried and allows you to more easily filter out […]