After replacing your lost Social Security Card, you might find this report interesting
Experts say that Facebook users are naively putting themselves at risk of identity theft by giving away so much personal information too easily.
Two in five people using social networking sites revealed personal information to a stranger, according to a recent survey carried out by technology company, Sophos.
A senior technology consultant Graham Cluley of Sophos revealed: "What is worrying is how easy it was for Freddi (the fictional username created with the logo of a frog, to carry out the test) to go about his business.” “He now has enough information to create phishing emails or malware specifically targeted at individual users or businesses, to guess the users' passwords, impersonate them or even stalk them."
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Friday, 24 August 2007
Lost Social Security Card: Identity Theft Facts 2
Whether or not you have lost your social security card, everyone needs to become more aware of the way thieves can obtain information about you. Here is a news item that highlights a lot of the problems people face today.
Even arming yourself with just a basic knowledge of these tactics, could just save you from becoming a victim of identity theft.
Don’t get caught out due to ignorance. Go Here and read this information now, and you’ll be ready next time any of these examples happen to you.
And here’s an extra one that isn’t on that webpage:
Never type your email address into any webpage. Whether it be your own website, a forum you have visited, or any other site where the email will be dispalyed.
You can disguise it so that the @ is AT or you can put spaces in, because everyone knows emails don’t have spaces in. The reason for diguising emails is, spammers and scammers have automated software that ‘spider’ websites mining email addresses. They can’t understand amended emails.
If you are filling in a box, you need to keep the email as it is, but it is unlikely that your email will be on display in that case.
Even arming yourself with just a basic knowledge of these tactics, could just save you from becoming a victim of identity theft.
Don’t get caught out due to ignorance. Go Here and read this information now, and you’ll be ready next time any of these examples happen to you.
And here’s an extra one that isn’t on that webpage:
Never type your email address into any webpage. Whether it be your own website, a forum you have visited, or any other site where the email will be dispalyed.
You can disguise it so that the @ is AT or you can put spaces in, because everyone knows emails don’t have spaces in. The reason for diguising emails is, spammers and scammers have automated software that ‘spider’ websites mining email addresses. They can’t understand amended emails.
If you are filling in a box, you need to keep the email as it is, but it is unlikely that your email will be on display in that case.
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