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- Information can be requested by email, text message or phone call, impersonating a genuine influential source such as a bank, courier company or a member of the management team.
4. Control measures
Calm down
- If the situation seems urgent or you are under pressure, it is important to stop for a moment to consider the next action. Scammers strive for urgency so you don’t have time to think about it thoroughly.
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- Realistic thinking means that you understand what could really be possible and why it would happen. If you receive an email with a Payroll Word file attached and you do not process anyone's payroll information in your work it is important to think about why that file should be sent to me? The same applies if your supervisor calls to ask you to do something surprising. Would my supervisor do that? Reflecting on the realism of the situation can help combat many such attacks.