Basra University for Oil and Gas is holding an awareness campaign entitled: "Together Against Fraud"

Under the patronage of the President of Basra Oil and Gas University, Professor Dr. Muhammad Halil Hafez Al-Kaabi, the Department of Media and Government Communication at the Presidency of Basra Oil and Gas University held a voluntary awareness campaign entitled: (Together Against Fraud), with the aim of promoting awareness of the dangers of financial and electronic fraud, introducing its methods and means of prevention, as well as raising awareness among teaching and administrative staff and students about the importance of protecting financial accounts and personal data when using electronic programs and applications.

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The campaign included distributing a number of awareness posters and brochures that addressed the most prominent methods of fraud and phishing, and ways to secure bank and financial accounts, in addition to publishing a series of awareness videos through the university’s official social media sites, which contributes to delivering educational messages to the largest possible segment of the university community.

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This campaign comes as part of the university presidency’s keenness to consolidate the culture of digital awareness, promote cybersecurity concepts, and spread safe electronic behaviors, in order to preserve financial and personal rights and reduce the risks of falling victim to electronic fraud, in confirmation of the importance of social responsibility in confronting these increasing phenomena.