6 Things Online Hackers and Scammers Don't Want You to Know
Published on October 23, 2015
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Keeping Safe Online
1. Don't Let Hackers Ruin your Birthday Party
Leave your birth date out of your profile, posts or tweets. This is very useful information that hackers and identity thieves need to steal your identity.
2. Scammers and Hackers look for Password Clues
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Clues like your social media likes and dislikes, favorites like entertainers, sports teams, names of family members, nick names.
3. Don’t give your Passport number, Drivers License number to anyone or any other official details to anyone unless you’re absolutely sure that they are who they say they are.
Read My Personal Encounter with an Email Scam4. Question any Password or Pin Requests from Your Bank, Police or other Organization
Don’t get fooled into responses to emails, text or phone call, asking you to reveal your PINs or Passwords , no matter how convincing they seem.
5. Don’t write down or store login details
Electronically or on paper where they could be found.
6. Never open an email attachment
It could contain a virus that steals your personal information. Make sure you’re 100% certain of who sent it, or what it is. Even an email that seems to come from a friend or business associate it could have been sent by a virus on their device. If in doubt, ask the person you believe sent it before opening anything.
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