Using Your Internet Information Against You

Using Your Information Against You
Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace reveal a lot of information about you. For your friends, that’s a good way to keep in touch with each other. For others, that’s a good source of details they can try to use against you. Everybody has received scam or phishing emails by now, but enterprising folks have begun to mine data from social networking sites to use in these scams, as shown in this TechCrunch link

It always helps to be wary of those kinds of requests, but there are some ways to make it harder to get scammed by this type of situation:

Limit the amount of personal information you put online. Only reveal what you want and nothing more.
Watch how you are contacted. If a friend normally wouldn’t ask for money over instant messenger, such a request should be suspicious.
Give your friend a call and make sure their profile hasn’t been hacked.
There’s a lot more of you on the Internet than you realize, but a little common sense will help keep you safe.

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