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Hi, this is Jeff Shropshire with Shropshire Insurance Today I’m going to talk to you about ransomware and the world of cyber crime. Ransomware is still a very prevalent risk and very damaging to our industry.
Ransomware is when an individual or syndicate breaks into your system or puts a virus into your system that actually locks down your access to your data. In so particular to where they can go in and watch you over a period of time to find out what data on your system is the most valuable to you. And once they determine that, that is the information that they’ll capture and restrict from your access. Unless, of course, you’re willing to pay a ransom through monetary means, whether it’s cash or Bitcoin or any other type of cryptocurrency. These schemes are very devious, they happen through emails and basically looking for any situation that can get into your system to find out this information to keep you from it.
I found out that just since 2018, the amount of ransomware crimes that have taken place have increased by over 350%. Then in last year, 2021 alone damages ranged in the upwards of $20 billion from the effects of ransomware. And that’s not only just paying the ransoms, that’s the damages to your computers, your hardware, the work you have to do to make sure to prevent another attack from happening. So listen, you need cyber insurance, but you also need a partner who can help give you other solutions other than just cyber insurance. And that’s what the Shropshire Agency can do. Please call us and let us help protect your business and your data from crimes such as ransomware.

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Hi, this is Jeff Shropshire with Shropshire Insurance. I have been asked today to explain to you about what social engineering is the threat in regards to Cyber Insurance. Social engineering is right now one of the biggest threats to every single business because it involves emails and misdirection. Social engineering means when an employee or a person is misled into basically transferring or paying monies or paying a bill that looks really real, but the money doesn’t go where it’s supposed to go.
An example of that that we see happening around here in our world is people are getting in offices, bogus emails that look like they’re coming from management or owners of businesses, and they look legit. The sender’s email looks good, everything looks good. It says, “Hey, this bill hadn’t been paid,” or, “Please pay this invoice.” The employee looks at it, clicks on it, pays the invoice, money’s disappearing, going places that it shouldn’t go. It’s a horrible exposure. It’s happening to so many people right now. You need to make sure you have proper procedures in place to make sure that you’re paying your invoices correctly. I always recommend never pay off of an email. Log on directly if you’re used to paying bills directly. Call, verify the email, make sure everything’s right, but also you need cyber insurance and you need a specialist who can help you with that and Shropshire Insurance is here to do that for you. So give us a call today.

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Hi, this is Jeff Shropshire with Shropshire Insurance. And in the economy that we have today, being August of 2022, we get a lot of questions from people wondering Why are their insurance premiums going up, especially when they haven’t had claims or many changes on their policies?
Well, there’s two reasons. One is going to be because of the past weather claims that the State of Texas has had. Over the last three to five years have been extraordinary, billion-dollar storms. And then also, it’s the economy. The storm history has taken a lot of monies out of the insurance companies, out of claims paying. There’s been a ton of claims over the last three to five years, particularly all over the state. We’ve had anything from hail thunderstorms to major freeze events to hurricanes and floodings. It’s just been a rampant of claims. So therefore, insurance premiums are all pooled into one pool, and sometimes we have to pay more premiums because more people are using their insurance. And we might not individually be using ours, but it’s a pooled product.
Also, the economy is having a lot to do with it. We see the price of the materials of replacing roofs, the price of labor going up. That makes claims more expensive. So between materials and labor availability, due to shortages that we see in the supply chain, increased cost of fuel, that really bottom lines affects all the issues of how claims become more expensive.
And the increase in technology in our automobiles. A bumper is not a $300 replacement any more of one vehicle. It used to be when I was younger, you hit a bumper, it would be $150 to $300. Now, with all the technology that’s in our automobiles, it doesn’t take a lot, just like a bumper being crashed, for the claim dollars to go up, if we have to replace that, due to a claim.
So right now is a difficult time in insurance, with prices going up for everybody, whether you’ve had claims or not. But the good news is
Insurance is a commodity-based product. It will go down, so hang in there. Call the Shropshire Agency. Let us review all of your stuff. Maybe we can find some opportunities, to even in this market, save you and your family some money but make sure that you’re still covered.

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Hi, I’m Jeff Shropshire. I’d like to introduce you to High Point Village. High Point Village is our community partner for this quarter. High Point Village is a nonprofit that serves Lubbock and the surrounding areas. They do amazing things with amazing families. You can check out information about them on our website or their website directly.
How we’re supporting them is simple. For this quarter, for anybody who lets us quote their home and auto, or their business, we’re going to be donating $10 in your name to High Point Village. Refer somebody to us, we quote their insurance, we’re going to be donating $10 to High Point Village.
You can also donate directly to them through our website by going to shropshireinsurance.com, going to our community partner’s page, and there’s a button to click directly to High Point Village. Let’s raise a lot of money this quarter for High Point Village.

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