Are your personal and financial documents safe online? This is how you safeguard against frauds

For ages, people have been warned about keeping their personal and financial information safe when working online. Due to COVID lockdown, the chances of frauds and scams have only increased as more and more people are doing their daily work online at home. Your valuable personal and financial information should be kept safe and secure.

Information security is a serious business and identity theft happens regularly nowadays. Our country needs more than just the IT Act to achieve its data privacy goals. The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, if passed in Parliament, will take the opportunity to give citizens of India the power to decide how companies can store, use or update the data provided by them.

With some basic rules and tips, you can actually reduce the risk of becoming a victim of fraud or scam just by following the suggestions below:

Tip 1- Pay attention to all links before clicking

The most common way to breach your data is through clicking on…