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Stay safe and protected against hackers and online scammers of Online World Cup Cricket by following these little simple security measures.
If there is anything that the entire world eagerly awaits after FIFA World Cup, it is the ICC Cricket World Cup that held every four years, it is rated as one of the world’s most watched sporting event. Talking about this year, the Cricket World Cup will be played in 14 different stadiums across Australia and New Zealand. India brought the Cricket World Cup 2011 with a glorious win by 6 wickets over Sri Lanka. And now this year, as the cricket crazy smog starts setting in, we now can easily expect online scammers and hackers to focus their attacks against cricket fanatics. So, below are some really easy 10 steps that you can effortlessly take to stay away from any kinds of cricket World Cup online scams.
What we really can expect from Hackers?
This Cricket World Cup 2015, we are expecting hackers to:
1. Send bulk emails to a large number of users over the entire world. These bulk emails will contain links to phishing and malicious websites. They then may also contain attachments hiding malicious codes.
2. Create several fake websites that look alike the official site of the World Cup Cricket to steal personal and financial informations.
3. Inject vulnerable websites with malicious pop-up ads to either redirect users to fake websites, or drop malware on their Personnel Computers.
4. Use social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook to propagate their scams by posting links that are fake and infected websites.
5. Create various fake and malicious sites claiming to provide live streaming services.
Easy and effortless steps to avoid Cricket World Cup Scams :
1. The most safest place to watch the cricket World Cup is your television set.
2. Always buy world cup tickets only from the official website that is www.icc-cricket.com/cricket-world-cup
3. Even if the above link comes to you in an email from ICC, do not ever click on it. The safest way is to type the URL in the address bar of your own browser of your PC.
4. Never trust any emails that claims to offer you free tickets, discounted tickets or any special travel deals. Do not ever click on links or download attachment in these emails.
5. Never respond to online ads that claims offer streaming services for the World Cup or free tickets.
6. If you receive any text message or calls asking about your personal informations in return for tickets or travel vouchers, then always disconnect the call.
7. While you are searching for images,videos, wallpapers, texts, etc., of your favorite cricket starts or matches,always only trust official and well-known websites.
8. Never respond to social media posts (Twitter, Facebook, etc.,) that claim to provide free tickets, live streaming services, etc. Do advise your friends that they never share, like or comment on these posts.
9. For live streaming always, trust popular websites like www.starsports.com
10. Protect your computer system with a reliable antivirus software like Quick Heal, which provides protection against entire phishing emails and phishing website.
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