One of the core emerging competencies in financial capability is Digital Finance. As a core competency digital finance includes the use of digital financial tools such as e-banking or Internet banking as well as recognising and responding to scams and fraud. ĠEMMA in 2020 initiated the series of Little Black Book of Scams and Frauds. …
Has this ever happened to you? You are browsing online when a pop-up ad appears on your screen warning you that your computer is infected with dozens of viruses. The ad says that you can remove them by buying antivirus software that will immediately eliminate them – and certain versions are designed to disable legitimate…
This is the seventh video that Ben Camille and ĠEMMA produced together. In this video Ben Camille discusses his experience with scams and frauds and discusses measures that we all should follow to protect ourselves from being scammed. Amongst the matters which Ben Camille brings up is how to make sure you are not communicating…
ĠEMMA on Thursday 29th July held its third Webinar on scams and fraud. A third Webinar was organised to generate further awareness and understanding of scams and fraud given that, one may say, that 2021 has, so far, been the year of scams and fraud in Malta. For the past month not a week goes by without…
View our infographic and continue reading below! Once scammers get a victim’s money, they are far from done. They often need to move the money – and they are not going to do it themselves. That is where they employ the help of others – some knowingly, but many not: “money mules”. A “money mule”…
Another video produced with the Central Bank of Malta in our budgeting series. I am Tony – I am 42 years old. My wife, Maria, is 40 years old. We have two kids. The eldest is Angele, who will be 17 soon and our youngest is Matthias, who is 11. I work in the services…
The rapid increase in subscribers of streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+ has rendered the streaming market an attractive target to scammers. And so … you are browsing through the Internet and you come across a streaming platform. It looks just like other major streaming platforms, even if the web address and logo look…
This is another video we produced with the Central Bank of Malta in our budgeting series. Let me introduce the ĠEMMA family. I am Maria. I am Tony’s wife. I work as an all rounder in my father’s family business. Tony is 42 years old, a manager in large business in the services industry. We…
The number of cases is significant – HSBC Malta CEO https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/senior-banker-taken-aback-by-financial-abuse-of-the-elderly-in-malta.888283 Elderly people are facing financial abuse, including by their own family members who help themselves to their savings, deposits and bank cards, a senior banker has warned. Simon Vaughan Johnson, who heads HSBC’s Malta operations, told financial practitioners earlier this month that he had…
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…
