Black Friday and Cyber Monday, followed by the Christmas sales are high season for cybercriminals: as you\u2019re trying to get that shiny new TV or pair of jeans for the price of a pair of socks, bad guys are trying just as zealously to steal your money. Take our quiz to check if you can avoid the traps set by cybercriminals.<\/p>\n
It was simple, wasn\u2019t it? If you want to know more about phishing and other types of holiday fraud, you can also read our post<\/a>. Here\u2019s another interesting post<\/a>, this time we look at how criminals used technology and phishing to trick thousands of people during the Olympic games.<\/p>\n Be safe and happy shopping this Black Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Find out if you can avoid traps set by fraudsters for Black Friday sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":522,"featured_media":8002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[200,80,1035,1700,701,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-8001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-black-friday","9":"tag-fraud","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-sales","12":"tag-scam","13":"tag-test"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/black-friday-scam-quiz\/8001\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/black-friday-scam-quiz\/10480\/"},{"hreflang":"es-mx","url":"https:\/\/latam.kaspersky.com\/blog\/black-friday-scam-quiz\/7998\/"},{"hreflang":"it","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.it\/blog\/black-friday-scam-quiz\/9365\/"},{"hreflang":"tr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.tr\/blog\/black-friday-scam-quiz\/2666\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/black-friday-scam-quiz\/13485\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/black-friday-scam-quiz\/13428\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/black-friday-scam-quiz\/13485\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/black-friday-scam-quiz\/13485\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/black-friday\/","name":"black friday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19683,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions\/19683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}