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This is a great time to shop because of the deals but they also come with some dangerous risks as you tread through the shopping thicket. Get tips and tricks from Hexagon Center on how to be safe online and always practice zero trust. Use the tools that your financial institutions offers. Look for establishments that are concerned for your safety online and avoid the ones that you feel are careless. Make sure you feel safe. Quite often, your gut feelings is right. Also, Giving Tuesday is coming up, how should you be making your donations online?

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Daniel Masterson, Ai Courtrie Buson & Bard Gee
November 29, 2024

for the week November 24th, 2024, 48th edition

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Trust no one when you’re shopping online

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This shopping season is not only keeping the shoppers busy, the scammers are just as busy, if not busier. Take extra caution as you shop online and practice zero trust.

There are several ways to protect yourself when you’re shopping online. Anything from using virtual credit cards to simply not falling for clicks.

Also, Giving Tuesday is between this edition and the next. The safest way to make your donations is on the official websites. (And make sure the web address is correct.)

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🤷‍♀️ What now?: If you’re seeing a company’s name you’ve never seen before and you really want to use them, go to your search engine and search for that company’s name with the word “SCAM” next to it. The best search engine for something like that is Google.

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As we build the last newsletter for Shopping Security Awareness month for this year, we are excited to share with you what we will be rolling out next month. Be sure to tune in!

Please note that our new email ends with “hexagonhub.org”It’s now [email protected].

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Glossary/Legend:

  • Pig butchering - A type of investment fraud where scammers gradually gain a victim's trust before stealing their money. The term comes from the idea of fattening a pig before slaughter.

  • Meta - Facebook

  • PWN - A hacker jargon meaning to conquer or dominate. In the context of online security, pwned often means that your account or system has been breached, and your passwords—user passwords or privileged passwords—have been compromised. The word originated in online gaming forums as a misspelling of “owned.”

  • Search Engine - a program or website that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web. For example, Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Duck Duck Go, etc.

  • Ransomware - A type of malware that locks or encrypts a victim's files and demands a ransom payment to unlock and decrypt them. Ransomware can infect a variety of devices, including computers, smartphones, printers, and more.

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