Dorset Police Cyber Protect

🚨 Make yourself a harder target for criminals. ℹ️ Avoid sharing personal details that fraudsters could use to perpetrate fraud against you, such as your birthday, where you live, or pet names. Find out more: orlo.uk/jtPPT

⚠️ Email and social media hacking is the most common form of cyber crime in the UK. ✅ Protect your email and social media accounts with a passkey. Find out more: orlo.uk/s7ewu

🔐 October is #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth 🚨 There were 44,355 victims of email and social media account hacking last year. ✅ Protect your email and social media accounts with a passkey. Find out more: orlo.uk/EgD3l

🚨 If your email or social media account is hacked, tell the police using Report Fraud at: orlo.uk/8D9dj ℹ️ For advice on recovering a hacked account, visit: orlo.uk/GOZsi

🚨 Make yourself a harder target for criminals. ℹ️ Avoid sharing personal details that fraudsters could use to perpetrate fraud against you, such as your birthday, where you live, or pet names. Find out more: orlo.uk/v7XG8

✅ Protect your email and social media accounts with a passkey. ℹ️ Where passkeys are unavailable, use strong passwords, for example generated by a password manager and enable 2SV. Find out more: orlo.uk/BpJ8G

⚠️ Email and social media hacking is the most common form of cyber crime in the UK. ✅ Protect your email and social media accounts with a passkey. Find out more: orlo.uk/9GujC

🔐 October is #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth 🚨 There were 44,355 victims of email and social media account hacking last year. ✅ Protect your email and social media accounts with a passkey. Find out more: orlo.uk/EMaq1

🚨Talking to somebody new online? Criminals perpetrating romance fraud stole over £102M last year. ℹ️Stay on the dating website or app until you’re confident the person is who they say they are. #RomanceFraud

🚨Talking to somebody new online? Criminals perpetrating romance fraud stole over £102M last year. ❌ Never send money to someone you haven’t met in person. #RomanceFraud

🚨Talking to somebody new online? Criminals perpetrating romance fraud stole over £102M last year. ℹ️ Use reverse image search tools to check that the person's profile photos are not associated with another name. #RomanceFraud

🚨Talking to somebody new online? Criminals perpetrating romance fraud stole over £102M last year. ❌ Never send money to someone you haven’t met in person. #RomanceFraud

🚨Talking to somebody new online? Criminals perpetrating romance fraud stole over £102M last year. ℹ️ Stay on the dating website or app until you’re confident the person is who they say they are. #RomanceFraud

🚨Talking to somebody new online? Criminals perpetrating romance fraud stole over £102M last year. ℹ️ Use reverse image search tools to check that the person's profile photos are not associated with another name. #RomanceFraud

⚠️ 10,784 people reported being victims of romance fraud in 2025. Their losses totalled over £102M. In Dorset alone, victims lost £786,000. ℹ️ Find out how to spot the signs of romance fraud: orlo.uk/5oBRJ #RomanceFraud

There is now a new website to report cyber crime and fraud to the police. Report Fraud is the new service replacing Action Fraud.

If you think one of your online accounts has been hacked, you should report it as a crime to Action Fraud: orlo.uk/tszvO Check out this step-by-step guide by @NCSC on how to recover online accounts.

⚠️ 35,434 people reported their email or social media accounts hacked last year. ✅Enabling 2-step verification (2SV) can keep cyber criminals out of your account, even if they know your password. #TurnOn2SV ℹ️Find out more: orlo.uk/8X4HP

If you think one of your online accounts has been hacked, you should report it as a crime to Action Fraud: orlo.uk/mC4O0 Check out this step-by-step guide by @NCSC on how to recover online accounts.

ℹ️Email and social media account passwords should be strong and different from all your other passwords. ✅ Create strong passwords using Three Random Words For out more: orlo.uk/2oJgu #TurnOn2SV