Get protected against online scams

Online scam protection is a security solution designed to shield your personal and financial information from unauthorised access and online fraud. It uses advanced detection techniques to identify online scams and other suspicious activity — such as phishing emails, fraudulent text messages, and fake websites — that may trick you into revealing personal information or transferring money. By analysing emails, text messages, and websites for signs of phishing, online scam protection can alert you to online fraud.

Scam Protection is designed to detect a wide range of online scams — from phishing emails and text messages used to trick people into sending money to sophisticated phishing attacks aimed at capturing personal or financial information. By helping you identify these scams, online scam protection makes you a harder target for cyber criminals and other bad actors. Filtering out scams ensures you only interact with reputable companies and buy online from legitimate businesses.

Recognising a phishing attack and online fraud often comes down to vigilance. Look for warning signs such as unexpected requests for personal or financial information, urgent messages that trick you into transferring money, or messages with poor grammar, sketchy links, and unfamiliar sender details. A legitimate company will typically not ask for your account details, phone number or other personal information, so any request for these details should be treated with caution.

Yes. Modern online scam protection is built to function seamlessly on mobile devices, where users often encounter phishing scams and fraudulent text messages. By scanning SMS content and identifying patterns that indicate a phishing attack, Scam Protection helps stop cyber criminals who trick people into revealing sensitive information or sending money.

While both solutions play important roles in your digital security, online scam protection focuses on detecting and preventing fraud attempts, such as phishing emails, suspicious text messages, and deceptive banking sites. Antivirus software, on the other hand, primarily protects your system from malware and viruses. By combining both, you get comprehensive security that fends off scammers and malware. With F‑Secure Internet Security and F‑Secure Total, you get both our award-winning antivirus software and all the great online scam protection features.

To cancel your Scam Protection subscription, log in to your My F‑Secure account and go to the Subscription page. There you can manage your subscription, including cancelling your automatic renewing subscription.

After the 7-day trial your monthly subscription will start and you will be charged the monthly subscription price.

If you want to switch to other F‑Secure products you can buy them from our web pages. NOTE: if you buy a different F‑Secure product from our web pages, you need to insert a different email than the one you used when signing up for your F‑Secure Scam Protection subscription.

No. All the F‑Secure Scam Protection features are already included in your F‑Secure Internet Security or F‑Secure Total subscription.

Yes. While Scam Protection actively protects you from many common scams, no solution can guarantee 100% safety. Some scams may still bypass protection, such as when you willingly transfer money to a scam account (e.g., investment scams), provide your personal information via text, or get deceived by a scam call. Scam Protection acts as a strong line of defense and makes you a harder target for scammers. Still, staying alert and responsible online behavior remain essential.

Scam Protection uses multiple methods to identify and block scam attempts, including:

• AI-based detection: Advanced AI technology analyses text messages in real-time to detect and block SMS scams.

• Reputation-based analysis: It references extensive and ever-growing databases of known scam websites, advertisers, cookie consent providers and malicious links. Based on its analysis, Scam Protection distinguishes safe websites and links from malicious ones and actively blocks scams before they can harm you.

This layered approach ensures strong protection against many common phishing threats and other online scams.

Scam Protection is currently only available as a monthly subscription. If you want all the scam protection features as a yearly subscription, you can buy our F‑Secure Internet Security or F‑Secure Total.

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