Keeping health and personal information safe and secure is of the utmost importance to L.A. Care.
What is Phishing?
What Can You Do?
- Be cautious about opening attachments or clicking on links in emails from companies you know, as well as your friends and family members. Sometimes there are clues in a fake email, such as spelling and grammar errors, or the "To:" and "From:" names are suspicious.
- Do not respond to any emails that request personal or financial information. If you think a company or a friend really does need personal information from you, call them, but do not use the phone number listed in the email.
- Do not open unsolicited email messages and attachments from anyone you don't know.
- Secure your accounts by making passwords long, strong and unique.
- Ensure you access Wi-Fi connections that are from known sources and are password secured.
- Use security software you trust, and make sure you set it to update automatically.
- Avoid clicking on webpage pop-ups.
- Do not download files from unauthorized or suspicious locations, systems or websites.