Fight Fraud: How to Recognize & Combat Cybercrime

Week 3 of #CyberAware Month focuses on recognizing and combating cyber crime in our connected world. Learn more at http://ncsam.info/13o8jKO. Cyber crime takes many forms. Be sure to protect yourself and others by being cyber aware.

“As cybercriminals sharpen their hacking skills, we must take stronger precautions to protect our information and all of our connected devices,” said Michael Kaiser, executive director of NCSA. “There are simple things everyone can do to better safeguard their key accounts, devices and apps, like keeping software up to date, turning on strong authentication and exercising extreme caution when reading messages containing links or requests for information.”

This infographic is eye-opening.

Fighting cyber crime requires a collaboration of law enforcement, government agencies, private sector and general public. IdentityTheft.gov is a one-stop resource for reporting and recovering from ID theft.

Fight cyber crime during #CyberAware Month by reporting scams using the BBB scam tracker: https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker/us/. The FBI IC3 accepts Internet crime complaints at https://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx. Don't be afraid to reach out!

What are you doing to combat fraud and cybercrime?