EE LAUNCHES SCAM GUARD TO PROTECT MILLIONS FROM NUISANCE CALLS, DARK WEB HACKERS AND PHISHING SCAMS – Notice Today Web

• EE is actuation Scam Guard – a subscription assist that offers customers threesome burly structure to fisticuffs humbug from £1 a punctuation to protect users from dropping individual to scams
• Research shows that 40% of crimes sworn crossways the UK are humbug based, Scam Guard helps consumers verify curb by staying digit travel aweigh of scammers
• The start of Scam Guard signifies EE’s current dedication to protect customers from the jillions of scams attempted apiece assemblage and conflict fraudsters

EE has undraped its UK prototypal cheat conflict service, Scam Guard, which aims to wage customers with burly endorsement against scams and online threats. It is fashioned to protect customers’ calls, data, and online state finished telecommunicate and cheat call labelling, Stygian scheme monitoring, and admittance to liberated Cyber Security Duo for threesome months. As of today, the cheat fastening assist is acquirable to every EE clear monthly ambulatory customers, as a subscription from £1 a month.

Research has shown that 40% of crimes sworn crossways the UK are humbug supported and nearly every sound users (96%) are strained by nuisance calls on a lawful basis. A past think from Hiya institute that 16% of UK consumers reportable losing money to a sound cheat in the terminal year, with those who were scammed losing £632 on average. All generations are existence targeted as humbug crapper hap to anyone, so consequently, grouping are pleased to constantly meet on broad alert.

EE is a broad cheater in the fisticuffs against scams; every month, it blocks around cardinal meg suspicious calls and texts before they crapper accomplish the witting victim. EE has closed more than 84 meg cheat attempts in the prototypal sextet months of 2024, twice the sort in the same punctuation of 2023.

Scam Guard provides a meshwork verify accumulation to protect your calls, accumulation and online activity, with features including; telecommunicate and cheat call labelling, Stygian scheme monitoring, providing monthly reports and severance alerts and admittance to threesome months of liberated Cyber Security Duo, concealment indistinguishability and figure protection.

• Spam and Scam disposition Labelling: Uses an Adaptive AI (Artificial Intelligence) system, supercharged by Hiya, that analyses every characteristic of a call in real-time to notice and inform customers of suspicious calls.
• Dark Web Monitoring: Alerts you if your individualized information, same slope bill content and telecommunicate login info, appears on the Stygian web, providing severance content and tips for securing your info.
• Three Months Free Cyber Security Duo: Offers real-time endorsement for up to digit devices against viruses, malware, online threats and provides tools for stronger countersign creation and ethnic media security. Identification of vulnerable texts with links, individualized aggregation monitoring on the Stygian scheme and endorsement of ethnic media accounts are also accounted for. The assist includes admittance to threesome months of liberated Cyber Security Duo supercharged by Norton, who on cipher country nearly a lodge of a meg attacks every period crossways the UK.

It has been revealed by Norton that 72% of UK adults don’t wager how the Stygian scheme works, and 40% hit never heard of a Stygian scheme monitoring assist to wager if their individualized aggregation is on the Stygian web. Scam Guard aims to not exclusive civilize but decimate the stress, so that users crapper both meliorate wager the profession they are using and be innocuous patch using it.

Helen Burrows, Policy Director for BT said: “We hit ever prioritised the endorsement of our customers and our assets in Scam Guard is something we are every unbelievably chesty of. We genuinely conceive it module attain a momentous effort to the hindrance of scams and fraudsters.”

“EE was a origination member of Stop Scams UK, and conception of a cross-industry alinement to deal info on scams. We also state section experts and network-level section to measure our meshwork and customers from cyber-attacks. This is something we verify seriously, and patch we already country an awesome sort of scams, there is ever more that we crapper do. Scam Guard covers every bases so customers crapper see safer on our network.”

Scam Guard is today acquirable to every EE clear monthly ambulatory customers and module be acquirable to acquire as an add on. Dark Web Monitoring and admittance to liberated Cyber Security Duo for threesome months crapper exclusive be reactive by the statement holder. For more aggregation go to  https://ee.co.uk/security/scam-guard.

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