Brexit Protection... or should we call it Brexitection? :-)How does Brexit affect your finances? Do you care? Plenty of people do.
And that creates an opportunity for scammers.
Any time there are major news events, particularly disasters or anything economic, people get worried. and the scammers are right there to play on those fears.
According to the Telegraph, they have seen emails with subjects such as "Brexit causes historic market drop". These emails have links that supposedly connect to pages with information on how to protect your investments. Of course, they actually download malware to the victims computer.
This is a common problem... common because it works.
We've covered this topic before... and the advice remains the same. In fact, here are my top 10 email scam tips from a 2013 post! These are just as relevant today as then. And they will be relevant years from now:
