Scammers use email or text messages to trick you into giving them your personal information. They may try to steal your passwords, account numbers, or Social Security numbers. If they get that information, they could gain access to your email, bank, or other accounts. Phishing emails and text messages may look like they’re from a…
ĠEMMA and the Central Bank of Malta entered into a strategic partnership in 2020 to develop a series of education videos on budgeting. You can find all of these videos on the ĠEMMA Videos page – https://gemma.gov.mt/videos/. The videos are in Maltese. The videos are fronted by Vanessa Macdonald who is a respected Maltese journalist…
A business email compromise (BEC) fraud is an online scam where the scammer impersonates a business representative and tricks you into transferring money or sensitive information. The scammer impersonates a trusted person using an email that is almost identical to the trusted person’s name, or a domain that is identical to the name of the…
The Government’s policy is to encourage savings in such pension plan products – either on an individual level or on an employer basis. The state pension is designed to provide a person with an adequate pension income that provides dignity in retirement. The state pension, however, is not designed to provide a pension income that…
Learning how a scam works https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/learning-how-a-scam-works.885766 Recently Malta has seen a spate of scams – including phishing, romance fraud and business e-mail fraud. Newspapers have reported that one business lost nearly €90,000 as a result of a business e-mail fraud, and many people were defrauded over €100,000 by the Maltapost phishing scam. Last summer, Ġemma…
As part of its various initiatives, ĠEMMA within the Ministry for Social Justice and Solidarity, the Family and Children’s Rights has embarked, for the month of July, on a widespread campaign by means of its adverting presence on the BENNA milk cartons. Through this marketing campaign ĠEMMA endeavors to penetrate the majority of the Maltese…
COVID-19 restrictions are easing big time. Locked in at home, many persons had to place their romance on hold! Romance by Internet has been present with us since the birth of the Internet. Most likely link ups over the Internet and other dating apps increased big time during lock down. Yet – how sure are…
In the past weeks, Malta experienced a number of scams and fraud. The latest one was an email and SMS where scammers positioned themselves as the Malta postal service informing persons that they were unable to complete the parcel delivery due to an underpayment, of shipping fees before directing them to click a link to…
This is the fourth video we produced with the Central Bank of Malta in our budgeting series. The electricity and water bill came in with the post this morning. And I lost it. Big time. ☹☹☹☹☹☹☹☹. How many times I told Matthias just this week to put off that air conditioning unit in his room…
Do you know how to protect yourself against scams and fraud? Want to know more? Download our latest Infographic. Internet banking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, making the service convenient, very efficient (most transactions are processed virtually instantaneously) and mobile – it can be done anywhere, even abroad as long…
