Digital Wellness Blog

Digital Wellness-Episode 1                                                                                                   January 22, 2025

Part of a digital wellness is part of knowing how to protect yourself and your information out on the web. The digital wellness includes information about your social security numbers to credit cards and even your mortgage. Now when this information is put out there, it’s not to scare or intimidate but to educate yourself on how to stay protected in a world of scammers.

Now educate yourself on the risks that are out there, and risk plans so if there is some form of a compromise, you already know of a plan at hand of what to do to minimize taking in further damage.

1 example being let’s say someone in Africa stole your last $500 dollars out of your account. The first thing most people do is panic because you feel helpless (FYI I have been in that situation before and it can be scary) especially if there are no banks open for hours or even a couple days, maybe because of a holiday. To start with shut down your account, which can be performed online by flagging that your card has been stolen. By flagging the account, you might even stop the pending charges before it clears. Then when the banks open you can make sure the account is shut down, order a new card and put in for a reversal of charges. You will get everything back after their investigation, it just stinks that you must deal with the closed account until everything is fixed.

The scammer, this is a person sometimes in this country, sometimes not. This is a person who preys on a lack of computer or internet knowledge. Some scammers will talk you into services that you might need or lead to believe that is needed. Everyone has had to call about the iCloud virus or that there is a virus on your computer.  You will never get a call for apple or Microsoft about these issues, it’s your responsibility as the user to get help and it my responsibility as a repair guy to help you fix the issue and then to educate you how to prevent it, so the customer isn’t spending all of their hard earned money into constant repairs.