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February 23rd 2021 Get Safe Online’s inaugural Ambassador Day will be marked this Saturday, February 27th. The event will celebrate the impressive contribution made by the organisation’s community of Ambassadors around the Commonwealth, as...
23 February 2021
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February 12th 2021 Today, Safer Internet Day 2021, sees the release of 'Better Internet for Kids' (BIK), a review of the year 2020. It provides a summary of a multitude of stakeholder efforts to protect children and young people online...
12 February 2021
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February 9th 2021 To mark this year’s Safer Internet Day, new research released today by the official coordinators the UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC), shows young people’s experience of misleading content online as well as the strategies...
9 February 2021
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January 5th 2021 Scammers are already busy sending out fake ‘HMRC’ texts following yesterday’s announcement of another national lockdown. Frauds exploiting people’s concern and confusion over COVID-19 began as soon as the pandemic hit,...
5 January 2021
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December 22nd 2020 Very predictably, the launch of the staged mass vaccination of people in the UK against COVID-19, is being accompanied by a rash of attempts at fraud, as reported by Trading Standards departments around the...
22 December 2020
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November 20th 2020 The LEGO Group has today expanded its range of family-focused digital child safety and wellbeing initiatives to help families have conversations and learn more about how to tackle cyberbullying in an engaging, memorable...
20 November 2020
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November 17th 2020 As HMRC issues thousands of SMS messages and emails as part of its annual Self Assessment tax return push, the department is warning customers completing their returns to take care to avoid being caught out by scammers. The...
17 November 2020
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October 19th 2020 The Charity Commission is warning trustees and donors to strengthen their defences as it fears the pandemic has created environments that are enabling charity fraud. As we enter Charity Fraud Awareness Week (19 – 23 October...
19 October 2020
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