It’s not too surprising to note that online identity theft is actually a much worse problem than you might think. The question becomes what do you do to protect yourself?<\/p>\n
Being aware of what is going on while you are online is crucial to being protected against those who would vampire your identity. Spammers nab your email and find out lots of information on you just by plugging your email address into Google.<\/p>\n
Then of course, there are the phishing schemes designed to get you to innocently cough up items like your bank account information, or your PayPal account information. That’s one of the latest phishing schemes, a note supposedly from PayPal about your account being frozen because allegedly some “unauthorized third party accessed your account three months ago and transferred funds.”<\/p>\n
You do have to give spammers and pfhishers some credit for their ingenuity. One wonders how successful they may be if they (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s not too surprising to note that online identity theft is actually a much worse problem than you might think. The question becomes what do you do to protect yourself? Being aware of what is going on while you are…<\/span><\/p>\n