New year is approaching and everywhere is buzzing all chirstmans are enjoying holiday with their family, sending each other offline and online gifts, buying new clothes and variety of items for themselves. But at this time we need to be very careful. Hackers have also created many types of computer and mobile applications viruses, which can target your computer and mobile on the pretext of new year gift, empty your bank account and steal all the data stored in your mobile.

Let us know how hackers hack your computer and phone?

1. By sending a link to the website which reads a wonderful message asking you to click and claim your gift. As soon as you click on that link, your phone is under the control of hackers and they can easily steal everything from your phone.
2. By sending a spam email through e-mail, you have been informed about winning a huge amount in a lottery, if you click on the link given in greed, then they take you to the hackers website and ask you to fill in your details in the form and As it is given in the form, if you fill it in the greed of winning the prize, then there are many emails that come under the guise of which your computer and phone gets hacked.
3. through social media. Nowadays hackers also target many people through social media and by creating your fake profile and sending messages to your friends and demand money and your friends understand that you have asked for money then they are in the guise of hackers / fraudsters. Come and give money. By the time your friends find out that they weren’t you, it’s too late.
4. Through WhatsApp messages: Messages sent to you through WhatsApp or other means by fraud and fraud, asking you for your bank details by luring you to win prizes or asking you to withdraw money through a link, as soon as you get that When you click on the link, you are asked to enter the amount, then when you do OK, you get the message to withdraw the amount from the bank, then you understand that by then it is too late.
5. By phone calls: By pretending to be an officer of a bank officer, loan, insurance or any shopping site, asking for a reward in your name or offering to withdraw the amount when your policy matures and in the name of processing fee Asked to put money in saying.

Save yourself from the fraud that happens to you like this:

1. Do not give your details to any unknown person
2. Do not give your bank account details and OTP under any circumstances.
3. Do not open unknown websites that you think raise suspicion.
4. Go to the settings of your mobile phone and turn off Do not allow unknown sources.
5. Do not download any application from outside the Google Play Store.
6. Always use good anti virus in mobile phone.
7. Do not open unknown / suspicious e-mails.
8. Do not receive spam calls and beware of callers posing as bank officers.
9. The bank never asks for bank account information over the phone, avoid giving it.
10. If there is a cyber fraud with you, then you must report it to the police under cybercrime.
11. Keep the password of your online bank application, net banking, emails strong and change it from time to time.
12. Use social media carefully, do not make personal contact with unknown people and make your children more cautious about this.
13. Allow children to use mobiles under your supervision.
14. Do not open any links from unknown sources or visit any websites that you think are suspicious.

Be alert and be safe!

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