The holidays are a busy time for everyone, scammers included. Between year-end deadlines, travel plans, gift lists, and a steady stream of “limited time only” deals, people get distracted, and attackers count on it. Fake shops, phony delivery texts, fraudulent charity appeals, and gift card schemes all spike between November and January.
If you run security awareness, you know this is when your people need reminders most. You also know it’s when you have the least time to make anything new. That’s why we built the Secure Holiday Newsletter: Shop Safely. Give Wizely.
A ready-to-send campaign that takes minutes, not weeks
The newsletter is a finished, festive, easy-to-read asset you can drop into an email, post on your intranet, or share in Slack or Teams. There’s no design work, no writing, and no approvals for brand-new content. It’s just short, useful guidance your employees will actually read, because it helps them protect their own wallets, families, and holiday plans.
What’s inside
The newsletter covers the scams people are most likely to run into this season.
It walks readers through safer online shopping, spotting fake charities, recognizing convincing but fraudulent shops on TikTok and other social apps, telling a real delivery update from a phishing text, and avoiding common gift card traps. Each topic gets a few friendly, plain-language lines and links to a quick resource: a checklist, a short guide, or a brief video clip. Readers can go deeper on whatever matters to them without facing a wall of text.
Resources are designed to be shared, so employees are encouraged to pass them along to friends and family. That extends your awareness program well beyond the office and makes security something they take initiative on.
Why it works
Holiday scams hit people where they live: personal email, personal phones, personal bank accounts. But the habits that protect them at home are the same ones that protect your organization. An employee who pauses before clicking a fake delivery link on a Saturday is more likely to pause before clicking a suspicious link at work on Monday.
The newsletter’s light, seasonal tone (“Merry Mode: ON. Sneaky Scams: OFF.”) also keeps security positive and approachable instead of feeling like another compliance chore.
That goodwill goes a long way toward building a lasting security culture.
How to use it
Send it as a one-time holiday email, or split it up and share one topic a week from late November through New Year’s. Pin it to your intranet, mention it in a team meeting, or add it to your end-of-year all-hands. However you share it, you’re delivering timely, practical protection that’s easy for you to send and easy for your team to act on.
Get your copy of the Secure Holiday Newsletter today and make sure the only surprises your team gets this season are the good kind.
