6 Tips to Protect Yourself Against Cyber Fraud
Keeping your information secure from criminals is a top priority for our firm. To better protect you and your accounts from cybersecurity threats, we continuously review security procedures to ensure that we are following best practices recommended by the custodians, financial institutions, and industry experts with whom we work.
While we feel we are taking clear and actionable steps in our own firm’s security measures, cyber fraud continues to escalate, is becoming more sophisticated, and is ever changing. These threats take various forms, including email scams (e.g., phishing), where criminals obtain investors’ identity and use that information to commit various forms of wire fraud.
As a fiduciary to your financial accounts, we are encouraging our clients to embrace a series of measures to help protect their identity and mitigate potential security risks. The investor protection checklist outlines some best practices for investors across six key areas to help you:
- Manage your devices
- Protect all passwords
- Surf the Web safely
- Protect information on social networks
- Protect your email accounts
- Safeguard your financial accounts
Please carefully review this checklist with all members of your household.
Fidelity Best Practices for Investor Protection Checklist
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