SurePayroll employs stringent security standards to keep your payroll information safe. While your data is safe with us, we recommend you read these summaries of common fraud scams in order to protect your personal and financial information online.
Identity Theft
Identity theft occurs when another person uses your personal information without your consent to commit fraud or other crimes. Typical crimes include stealing money from your bank account, opening lines of credit under your name and applying for fraudulent loans. These crimes, as well as many others, can damage your credit, leave you responsible for bills and cause you countless hours of frustration. To minimize the risk of identity theft, you can learn more by visiting the Federal Trade Commission.
Phishing Scams
Phishing is a form of identity theft that involves disclosure of valuable personal data — like bank account information, credit card numbers, passwords, account data or other information — to individuals masquerading as a trustworthy persons or businesses in an apparently official electronic communication like email. These emails can look quite convincing, with company logos and banners copied from actual Web sites. Often, they will tell you that security procedure have changed or that they need to update (or validate) your information, and then direct you to a look-alike Web site. Never respond to these types of emails. You can either forward them to the institution that they are mimicking or delete them.
Pharming Scams
Pharming occurs when scam artists redirect Internet traffic from one Web site to a different, identical-looking site in order to trick you into entering your user name and password into the database on their fake site. Banking and financial sites are often the target of these attacks, in which scam artists try to acquire your personal information in order to access your bank account, steal your identity or commit other kinds of fraud in your name.
The use of fake Web sites may make pharming sound similar to email phishing scams, but pharming is more deceptive because you can be redirected to a false site without any participation or knowledge on your part.
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