Look out for anything fishy during the New Year’s

We as Virtual assistants try to save money for the clients’, which means we are trying to our best to keep the client’s business running smoothly. Time to time we do periodical review of problems faced by the clients. After all, Virtual assistants work on one to one basis, it means that we are concerned about the clients’ and their operations.

Lots of scams and fishy activities go around the Christmas and the New Year’s time, when people are trying to do all kinds of promotions just to get your credit card number in some way or another. Lots of our clients have reported things like getting emails from Pay pal, or other major companies trying to offer money, or even a jackpot sometimes!!

So here are few tips that might keep your accounts safe and will keep you festive season hassle free:

• All the emails which are not personally addressed to you and talk about some specific things which are related to you should be just marked as spam. Banks will rarely email you, so if you are getting emails and then follow up emails for something—better stay out of it.
• Check the email address, there are always variation of email addresses that are used by the spammers and the scammers. A no-reply email address is definitely a good runner in such cases.
• Always read the hyperlinks in the email. DO NOT click them directly, instead place the mouse on the hyperlinks and try to find the site that the link is pointing to.
• Above all, the content in the email will be of suspicious nature. Ask yourself if you would ever write such an email to somebody you don’t know?

Have a great Christmas and New Years from the entire TG’s VA family.

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