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Research reveals dramatic rise in people encountering online scams whilst working from home

News Team, 11/06/2020

26 percent of people claim they have seen an increase in the level of online scams and phishing attacks they face since they started working from home during the Coronavirus crisis, with just seven percent saying it has fallen.

The findings are from DSA Connect, an IT asset disposal company that specialises in the permanent deletion and destruction of electronic data, which also reveals that five percent of people say they have fallen victim to an online scam since the lockdown began.

These findings are all the more concerning because eight percent of people say that since they started working from home, they now have g...


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