tinsleyNET IT Services Consultant

Buyer Beware! You can't escape from the adverts. The American Thanksgiving sales day has been ported over into the UK as a promise of great deals for Christmas shoppers, many taking to online outlets to beat the queues. Retailers such as Amazon, John Lewis and Argos are predicting a record breaking weekend for their online sales. But as with any event that gets users eager to snap up deals online, the criminals are lurking just around the corner ready to take exploit any unsuspecting shoppers.

UK Cybercrime is increasing  A recent report on Internet Security and cybercrime has shown that UK users are among the most targeted in the world, with both home users and businesses being attacked daily, and over half a billion personal records stolen in 2015.

Scam emails pretending to be from the Government Gateway are being set out again. While some scam emails are still offering larger bodily parts and, ahm, performance enhancing substances, they are easy to spot by both humans and computers. Some scammers have taken things up a notch in the past year or so, creating plausible and relevant scam emails that could catch the unwary. One such email currently being distributed is pretending to be from the Government Gateway, part of the UK's e-Government service for various business and tax electronic form submissions.