Easy NINE tips to secure your email and avoid email fraud.

Dunia ilivo sasa kila kitu ni ki-electronic zaidi au ki-digitali zaidi.. EMAIL pia imekua ishu muhimu.. kwenye Businesses na maisha ya kila siku.  As email uses continue to grow significantly... email security is inevitable. Organisations should protect its employees .. and users should protect them selves as well. Here are the few tips for last mile users.

1. Use strong passwords.  Ukitumia strong password unapunguza uwezekano wa mtu  kuitambua kirahisi… usitumie tarehe yako ya kuzaliwa kama password.. don’t use your pet’s name au la mama/baba/motto au mchumba… lol   tumia Password Ngumu mfano   1Hat3liver@Onions! [changanya namba na herufi]

2. Never click links or open attachments you didn’t expect to receive.

3. Use email software with built-in spam filtering.   (unaweza kudownload a third party spam filter add-on then ukainstall kwa email client yako kama Outlook au Outlook Express, Thunderbird etc)

4.  Add people you know to your safe sender list and unwanted senders to your blocked list. This helps you get the mail that you want and not the mail that you don’t.

5. If an email is from an unfamiliar email address and you choose to read it do it with caution. 

6. Jenga tabia ya kubadilisha password kila mara. If you think someone tried to access your email account, contact your email provider. You should immediately change your password.

7. Do not reply to a suspicious email.  This is one of the biggest methods for preventing identity theft. 

8.  Look for signs that your information is safe. Phishing emails often try to lead you to malicious websites. Before you enter sensitive information on any site, ensure that the site uses encryption, a security measure that helps protect your data as it travels over the Internet. One sign of a secure site is an address that starts with https.

9. Never reply to request for money (especially those you didn’t expect.)

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