Archive for December 2009

Password hacking is the most basic thing an identity thief will attempt, and they start with guessing the right password. They also attempt to hack your password by using your personal data known to them. We call it reverse social engineering. This is the reason why I suggest not sharing any personal details with online [...]

Couple of month back I received a mail from RentACoder.com on my Hotmail account saying that the said website is offering me $100 for something that I do not remember now. I knew it was a scam to get my username and password, so I went ahead to mark it SPAM, but on the second [...]

The Internet is a dangerous place. If you are not cautious enough, it strips you bare in front of many who are waiting to take advantage of you and your kid’s innocence. You may not be vulnerable, but your kids definitely are. They are too young to understand the traps laid by mischievous programmers and [...]

Identity theft methods have advanced with technology.  The vast majority of identity theft scams are found lurking on the internet.  One of those common scams you may not have thought about, is IP identity theft.  Your IP or internet protocol, is your computer’s address, and is used to find the location of your computer, as [...]

Another identity theft scam you may not have considered, is cell phone identity theft.  You cell phone is a huge window into your personal life.  The information your phone stores, in the wrong hands, could absolutely be used against you.  That’s why, as with everything else, you should be careful about how you use your [...]

Just like most retail businesses count on holiday spending to make their profits soar every year, identity thieves function the same way.  According to the FBI identity theft affects around 10 million Americans every year, and that amounts to nearly $52billion stolen.  Most of that accumulates over the holidays, where shoppers are less willing to [...]

We already know that the internet offers an unbelievable amount of information.  Even information about you, that you didn’t necessarily know was out there.  Keeping yourself safe from identity thieves means making sure this information isn’t so easily available.  The less they know about you, the less they can use against you, so here’s a [...]

There are so many ways that scammers will try and take advantage of you, it’s almost impossible to try and list them all.  Keeping up on the scams as much as possible is a necessity however.  If you want to keep yourself safe from the identity thieves lurking about.  Here are a few of the [...]

With the holiday season comes a whole slew of holiday related scams.  Unfortunately many people see this time of year as a great vehicle to take advantage of people’s good will.  Identity thieves will use every tactic available to them to try and play upon your holiday cheer.  And if you’re not careful, those tactics [...]

Social networking scams are nothing new.  If you don’t already know by now, you should always be incredibly careful on sites like Facebook and Myspace.  Both offer huge gatherings of identity thieves just looking for easy prey.  If you aren’t careful you could become that prey, and it’s surprisingly easy for them to play upon [...]

Your trash is an invitation for an identity thief to steal your identity.  Not everyone realizes just how severely your trash can be used against you.  Mostly because so many of us mindlessly throw away documents with personal information that could be harmful in the wrong hands.  You don’t always consider how important protecting your [...]