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School? Use creative Be smart

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Common security
Legitimate-looking

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pet’s name or your
at trying to trick us into

school can be easy

giving away personal

for an attacker to find

or financial

out. Choose novel
information. Stop and

answers that aren’t

check if you know who

necessarily real.

the email is from.

Get

Be cautious

a regular

Free of free WiFi
credit check Wifi

networks

An annual credit check Be careful using free

will alert you if Wifi and hot spots -

someone else is they are untrusted

using your details to networks so others

get loans or credit. could see what you are

doing.

Check bank

statements Be wary of

regularly phishing

Keeping an eye on your emails

Legitimate-looking

bank statements could

emails are very clever

be the first tip-off that

someone has accessed at trying to trick us

your accounts. into giving away per-

Ring your bank sonal information. Stop

immediately if you see and check if you know

something suspicious. who the email is from.

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