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Umm... Actually blogging is not my thing. I've seen numbers of people blogging about their personal life, what are they doing, what they feel etc etc... Don't they know that by doing so they just exposed themselves to vulnerable threats?
Cyberspace is not quite a safe place. There are sooo much bad people out there trying to take advantage on us. I hate spammers...Do you? Well, what is spammers? Spammers are people who fill your inbox with irrelevant ads. Sometimes you got emails regarding Viagra or someone claims you have won lottery of millions of dollars and asked you to give out your information to them in order for fund to be released. Blinded by large sum of money, you gave out your information to them. Bingo! You have been fooled! That is one way they might yield your information and sell the information to the other parties. That's why you got so many emails in your inbox everyday.
But how do they got your email address in the first place? Ummm...that's a tricky question. Well, you might have subscribed to social network website like friendster facebook etc etc. I always see people wrote this line in their profile "add me on friendster! 123456@123456.yahoo.com" There are computer programs created to yield information on millions of websites. They are called Spider, Bot, Robot or Crawler. They will 'crawl' and 'scan' through websites to look for specific iformation like email addresses. Then the information will be sent back to the 'master' who creates them. That's why it is not safe to disclose your information even it is just an email address!
I think that's enough for my first post. Wait!!! Last but not least do not send money to somebody you don't know through WesternUnion, MoneyGram or Internet banking. If you won an auction let say on eBay, you can pay securely via Paypal. You'll get covered under PayPal Buyer Protection in case somebody cheated you. You can fill in dispute form and you will get all of your money back (conditions apply). Another secure payment method is Credit Card. You can report any case of fraud to your bank and they will help to get your money back. Ok I think this is the end of this post. Keep reading my blog :) Thanks!
Tips of the day:
if you still want to show your email address on your friendster page, you can do so by modifying standard email address to 'non-standard' form that still can be read. Instead of 1234@yahoo.com you might want to write like this 1234(at)yahoo(dot)com. People can still read and add you on Friendster but robots can't :) Cheers
Umm... Actually blogging is not my thing. I've seen numbers of people blogging about their personal life, what are they doing, what they feel etc etc... Don't they know that by doing so they just exposed themselves to vulnerable threats?
Cyberspace is not quite a safe place. There are sooo much bad people out there trying to take advantage on us. I hate spammers...Do you? Well, what is spammers? Spammers are people who fill your inbox with irrelevant ads. Sometimes you got emails regarding Viagra or someone claims you have won lottery of millions of dollars and asked you to give out your information to them in order for fund to be released. Blinded by large sum of money, you gave out your information to them. Bingo! You have been fooled! That is one way they might yield your information and sell the information to the other parties. That's why you got so many emails in your inbox everyday.
But how do they got your email address in the first place? Ummm...that's a tricky question. Well, you might have subscribed to social network website like friendster facebook etc etc. I always see people wrote this line in their profile "add me on friendster! 123456@123456.yahoo.com" There are computer programs created to yield information on millions of websites. They are called Spider, Bot, Robot or Crawler. They will 'crawl' and 'scan' through websites to look for specific iformation like email addresses. Then the information will be sent back to the 'master' who creates them. That's why it is not safe to disclose your information even it is just an email address!
I think that's enough for my first post. Wait!!! Last but not least do not send money to somebody you don't know through WesternUnion, MoneyGram or Internet banking. If you won an auction let say on eBay, you can pay securely via Paypal. You'll get covered under PayPal Buyer Protection in case somebody cheated you. You can fill in dispute form and you will get all of your money back (conditions apply). Another secure payment method is Credit Card. You can report any case of fraud to your bank and they will help to get your money back. Ok I think this is the end of this post. Keep reading my blog :) Thanks!
Tips of the day:
if you still want to show your email address on your friendster page, you can do so by modifying standard email address to 'non-standard' form that still can be read. Instead of 1234@yahoo.com you might want to write like this 1234(at)yahoo(dot)com. People can still read and add you on Friendster but robots can't :) Cheers
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3 comments:
Hey just stubbled upon your blog...its true what you say, people are often careless with personal info online, identity theft etc can occur. Peace!
Lets protect our identity :) Thanks for reading my post anyway
This is the reason why I've decided to stop blogging! (but still not willing to give up my FB yet tho, LOL) hehe. yeah people should be more aware of internet safety!
Thanks for the tips! :)
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