Do You Know How To Remain Safe On the Internet?

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 thought, I changed my mind and decided to click on the link to see how a scam website looks.

The scam website was 100 percent identical to the homepage of RentAcoder.com, except for one thing. Instead of showing https://www.rentacoder.com, the address bar showed some other URL. This is one form of Scamming, there are many such things happening on the net. My goal in this article is to tell you how to stay safe from such scams.

How to stay away from online Identity thieves

1. The very first thing you should do check the https prefix to the URL, and a padlock symbol in the status bar of the browser before you provide any information.
2. Scammers find their gold mine in type-in traffic. Scammers have registered the wrongly spelled names of the website related to popular sites. For example: Focebook, Fecebook, Paipal, peypal, etc. Check your URL manually to avoid being duped.
3. You can also bookmark the websites that you visit regularly. This way you will not have to type in URL every time you visit those websites. This will minimize the chances of getting scammed of your user name and password.
4. You can also try Google, Bing, or Yahoo to reach to your favorite website. These search engines almost never list scamming sites, and not that on the first place.
5. Do not use public computer for financial transaction.
6. If using public computer, use virtual keyboard. This will save you from keylogger threat.
7. Use different passwords for different websites.
8. Do not enter any detail if the website looks suspicious.

These are some of the ways to keep yourself safe on the web. Do you want to know what happened to RentACoder scam? Well, I Clicked the close button and went out, couple of days back I received intimation on my Gmail account from RentACoder. According to that the threat was over.