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Internet Tips
Internet is now very popular and more people are getting into it every day. A lots of people are fully depending on internet for shopping, paying the bills, booking holiday etc. It is very important to have some knowledge about internet before you start you sensitive information. I am giving some internet tips to protect you from identity theft and Internet fraud. People who do not use the Internet are more likely to become victims.

Internet Tips 1 - Make sure the company name, physical address, and telephone number is posted on the web site. Don't believe them with an email address only as they might not exist. If not, do not purchase from that web site. The company could be located in Cuba for all you know. Adopt this rule: "If you can't find them, then don't do business with them."

Internet Tips 2 - Never give your social security number or date of birth over the Internet. If your date of birth is required to purchase or participate like in the case of a dating service, lie about it or don't buy. For the dating service provide a false month and day you when born, but use the correct year so that your prospects will not feel deceived about your age. Never lie to a law enforcement official even on the Internet. Police have a right to ask you to identify yourself. But don't give out your personal information to anyone that you don't know, other than a law enforcement official. Always make certain that you are talking to a real law enforcement official before you give out your DOB. Ask him to identify himself. Check on him by calling the number he or she provides.

Internet Tips 3 - Sign up for one of the credit notification and protection services offered by the three largest credit reporting agencies and have a security watch placed on your account. It does not cost much considering that it really works to help protect your credit and your identity. They all share data with each other. If anyone applies for credit in your name you will be notified so you can stop it in time, assuming you have signed up for the service of course.

Internet Tips 4 - Be careful of all e-mail offers. If you "Click Here" make certain that doing so has directed you to the real web site of the company. For example, you may receive an e-mail requesting that you update your account information at E-Bay. Hackers use this trick to steal your user names and passwords. They direct you to a site that looks just like E-Bay at HTTPS://www.ebay.com. But that is not the real URL for the real E-Bay. The real address for E-Bay is HTTP://www.ebay.com. Notice the thieves added an "s" to the HTTP.

Recently I am receiving a lot of email for updating my details in different bank where I don't have any account with them. They are fraud and trying to get your personal information from you. Be careful from them and never response or click on any link.

See one example below.

?Dear National Westminster Bank (NatWest Bank) customer,

We regularly perform scheduled maintenance for our OnLine Banking customers. We intend upgrading our OnLine Banking security server for better online services.

In order to ensure you do not experience service interruption, you are required to complete our OnLine Banking Customer Form by following the secured hyperlink below:

face=Verdana size=1>http://www.natwest.com/securesession/action.aspx?refererident=7721040803458644632753753459813640075409366930954039496

Thank you for banking with National Westminster Bank, the industry leader in safe and secure online banking.

National Westminster Bank Customer Service

face=Verdana size=1>*************************************************************

IEBR: 0x0, 0x373, 0x25112710, 0x038, 0x7869, 0x4, 0x035, 0x32, 0x09880824, 0x38, 0x61374168 0NHG include common rev FE9Z file. 0x9128, 0x88, 0x90, 0x1356, 0x4099, 0x5, 0x4 0x90, 0x79, 0x0, 0x2, 0x64, 0x446 0x11, 0x9, 0x5653, 0x99, 0x10284932 hex: 0x01, 0x546, 0x3284 0x3, 0x48, 0x526, 0x76, 0x9647, 0x933, 0x19, 0x6, 0x107, 0x6511, 0x87653845 0x809 YMW: 0x364, 0x995, 0x82, 0x53, 0x3, 0x254

0x66, 0x22573385, 0x479, 0x492 create: 0x71, 0x33, 0x4, 0x70, 0x053, 0x1629, 0x734, 0x807, 0x0115, 0x3, 0x7937, 0x965 0x2, 0x4877 ZQWA XBD9 type I8T. define: 0x55 0x6326, 0x132, 0x12498160, 0x85966330, 0x48355874, 0x37463729, 0x6, 0x066, 0x2322 create, type, serv, TEO7, stack, serv, hex, 5BR8, 4CJ. 0x110, 0x4, 0x5855 3CI: 0x25656045, 0x0 type: 0x2, 0x7, 0x76304468, 0x12, 0x02, 0x13

0x31, 0x0509, 0x7, 0x5, 0x0, 0x0922, 0x4284, 0x347, 0x0217, 0x4468, 0x22, 0x886, 0x39, 0x73135632, 0x91 0x301, 0x437, 0x00, 0x1, 0x5, 0x6794, 0x909, 0x49 0x81 0x37758037, 0x7664, 0x5, 0x18, 0x7, 0x61002303 AG9, hex, root, rcs, OUYG, HXT, stack, XRRM. cvs: 0x4594, 0x0, 0x20018019, 0x8, 0x2, 0x69917190, 0x11, 0x1984, 0x554, 0x9802, 0x5 NV4A: 0x5, 0x6644, 0x20108749, 0x710, 0x12244310, 0x869, 0x50373182, 0x6663 SAD: 0x1741, 0x46, 0x5, 0x0, 0x7, 0x09, 0x0491, 0x1, 0x0, 0x52662329, 0x701, 0x5, 0x671, 0x89, 0x27 85N update KQIH common hex 6Z8 exe. 0x6, 0x7861, 0x227, 0x38, 0x1194, 0x584 ?

Internet Tips 5 - Remember that people who do NOT use the Internet are victims of identity theft too. For example, recently a computer was stolen with all the private information of American veterans. Most of the veterans never made an Internet purchase. Their private information was stored on a computer so it is venerable to theft from the Internet or from within an office like Veterans Affairs. Because people who do not use the Internet much so not know the tricks that thieves employ, they are more likely to become victims of identity theft.

Internet Tips 6 face=Verdana size=1>- Keep in mind that your credit card is not all that the Internet thief wants today. He knows that if he uses your credit card he most likely will get caught because you will know about it soon. Today it's your identity (social security number and date of birth) that the contemporary thief really wants. He wants to use your identify to apply for credit in your name, without your knowledge or consent. You need technology to catch him.

Internet Tips 7- Do not store your identity on your home computer if it is connected to the Internet. Store private information on a floppy and remove the disk when not in use. Use a personal firewall at all times.

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