As lockdown eases in the UK, a rise in burglaries is expected. Neighbourhood Watch has partnered with the Home Office to create a new social media campaign that alerts those most at risk, with practical tools that are proven to prevent burglary by nearly 50 times.  Life’s safer when you know your neighbours. With more […]

Get Safe Online has partnered with Neighbourhood Alert to provide credible, relevant and useful advice to its nation-wide community on all elements of staying safe online. The partnership kicked off last week with the distribution of Get Safe Online’s latest campaign ‘You, Coronavirus and staying safe online.’ Tony Neate, CEO of Get Safe Online comments, […]

Invariably, a crisis affecting large numbers of people triggers a huge volume of fraudulent activity. With Coronavirus, expect fake ads for anything from vaccines to facemasks, links to sensational news and video, bogus charity appeals, and phishing emails claiming to be from travel, compensation and insurance companies or event/tournament organisers. Fraudsters know that at times […]

If your child has an Instagram account, here’s a new concern you should be aware of. It’s arisen from the fact that over the last few months, the largest social media and photo sharing platform on the planet has been steadily extending its initiative to exclude the number of likes on posts. This is in […]

Scammers are targeting pension pots of all sizes. Make sure you know how to spot the warning signs and how to keep your pension safe. Pension scams can be hard to spot. Scammers can be articulate and financially knowledgeable, with credible websites, testimonials and materials that are hard to distinguish from the real thing. How […]

By the end of the 2000s, most people had heard about cryptocurrency, but few had any idea what it was. A lot has changed since then, with digital currencies having become a popular investment. Huge accounting firms are now offering digital currency to clients. Blockchain technology is reaching into traditional finance and other industries. Cryptocurrency […]

Renting an apartment is a time-consuming process for both the tenant and the landlord. Landlords often spend a considerable amount of money marketing the property, engaging a letting agent to help them fill the vacancy and also renovating or updating the property after a previous tenant has moved out. Before even putting the property on […]

Just watching YouTube and looking at the thousands of uploads made me realise once again that we do need to remember that as with most things relating to online usage – it’s not the apps/sites that are the problem but the lack of understanding about where and what it potentially could lead to.  Parents/guardians, carers and […]

“One of the main ways you can protect yourself when shopping, banking, making payments or entering other confidential information online is to ensure the page’s address begins with ‘https’ and features a green padlock”. This is one of the key pieces of online safety advice which has been bandied about for years, and continues to […]

I am a ‘normal’, educated, forty-something woman with kids, living in Kent. I became a victim of catfishing … but not the kind where people get scammed for money. It began with a simple swipe right on Tinder and ended with the trauma of having unknowingly been sexually involved with a married man who was […]