Robberies through Cell Phone and How to Defend

In today’s digital world one out of three robberies, malware attack and phishing activities in nationwide involved with the cell phone only. Surprisingly, these thefts are growing very fast in the urban areas where the peoples are using the cell phone more than the rural areas. In the world report of the cell phone are stolen are increasing day by day because of the increasing use in the cell phone and the technology which we have in it, we are more reliable to them in terms of doing banking and other financial transaction.
These enterprising dishonest has got a way to make more money from your small, expensive and highly useful smartphones by reselling the phones and stealing your personal and other information from the apps.
Now, it is very difficult to replace a smartphone, because after using it for a longer period of time and storing all the important information from time to time. Actually, our smartphones have become the greatest risk to most users as it consists of the enormous amount of personal and financial data stored. If the hackers got an access to your device then it becomes very possible for them to gain the access of your credit card and banking information, passwords, your accounts on email and social networks, your contact lists or view your calendar, they can use it to steal identities, send spam through your accounts, infect your devices, make purchases under your accounts and more. 
“Stealing a phone is very easy for a thief and then selling to a hacker”, Now as a Webroot Antivirus making a mission which is to make a stolen Smartphone’s just a worthless empty wallet.”
These are some of the critical steps in reducing cell phone crimes, but without the support of the users, this cannot be done. When the phone carriers give you the information on how to report your stolen phone and how to delete your important information, then you should learn it and do it with your phone and with your children’s phone. 
To protect your phone and your family’s and your contact’s information, you also need to:
  1. Password or PIN-protect your phone – Webroot suggest you put in the password or the pin in your smartphone. 
  2. Consider installing one of the “where’s my phone” applications that will let you track its location should it get lost or stolen.
  3. We should have to Install mobile security software to protect our phone from the from the criminals who want to steal information from your phone by installing malware, trozen etc.

Taking backup is very important in the case to have your friends’ and contacts’ phone numbers and if we have a fear of phone lost.

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