A sticker on a parking meter offers to pay for parking by scanning a QR code. What is the main risk?

The code leads to a fake payment page

The payment is collected twice by the local council

The parking is registered against the wrong space

The payment receipt is not sent by email

Which elements should put a payment on hold while you check? Several answers are expected.

A change of bank details announced by message

A request for confidentiality about the current transaction

An urgency that rules out any usual check

An invoice in the supplier's usual format

An amount matching the previously signed quote

You find a USB stick in the car park at your workplace. What is the right thing to do?

Hand it to the IT department without plugging it in

Open it on your workstation to identify its owner

Plug it into a free computer in the room

Open it after running an antivirus scan

Someone claiming to be a technician asks you to install a remote access tool, for a fault you never reported. What is the right reaction?

Hang up, then call support back on the internal number

Accept the installation, then watch what is done

Ask for their employee number before accepting the installation

Accept if the call comes from a local phone number

A payment fraud has just been discovered in your organisation. Which step determines what remedies remain possible?

File a police report and request a transfer recall

Wait for the result of the technical analysis of the workstation

Inform only the supplier whose identity was used

Change the passwords and close the incident

Which measures genuinely reduce the impact of an attack that has already happened? Several answers are expected.

An offline backup tested by an actual restore

An up-to-date list of contacts to notify

An incident reporting procedure known to everyone

An antivirus renewed every year on every workstation

An insurance policy taken out without an inventory of the data held

Your bank calls to report a suspicious transaction and asks you to approve a cancellation transfer from your app. What should you make of it?

No cancellation is ever obtained by approving a transfer

The request is valid if the adviser is identified

The request is valid if the amount stays small

The request is valid if the displayed number matches

Cybersecurity

Digital fraud and scams: test your reflexes

Ten questions on the scams that genuinely circulate at work: a fake change of bank details, fake tech support, a swapped QR code, an abandoned USB stick. No technical knowledge is required.

A regular supplier writes that their bank details have changed and asks you to pay the next invoice into the new account. What do you do first?

You call them on the number you already know
You call the number given in the message you received
You reply to the message to ask for confirmation
You pay and check the account the following month

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In brief

Fraud aimed at professionals almost always rests on three levers: a change of bank details, an urgency that rules out checking, and a request for discretion. One single reflex defeats them: call the person back on the number you already hold, never on the one given in the message. This free ten-question quiz tests that reflex on ordinary office situations.

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