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5 reason you Shouldn´t Give your Email Out like candy.
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It’s the Command Center for Your Online Life
If a thief gets control of your email account, you are vulnerable to attack elsewhere. Many passwords reset via email, so even if you use a separate, long and strong password on, for instance, your bank account, a thief with access to your email can reset it. Many sites offer the choice between password reset via email or a mobile phone. Choose the latter for greater security.
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It’s an Easy Way to Speak Directly to You
Email is the vehicle of choice for phishers and spearphishers. That’s why so much effort on the part of fraudsters has gone into designing email messages that look like the real thing. Gone are the days of bad graphics, bad grammar and spelling that would put a 5-year-old to shame. Cyber scammers use email because it works. Offering a deal that is too good to be true; scaring the daylights out of the email recipient about an existing account, or a new account or suspicious activity; threatening big penalties for unpaid tax bills -- the triggers are too many to list.
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Providing personal information via email or entering sensitive personal information on a website designed to look like a financial or government institution can be a sort of Pavlovian response for many people. If you fall for the trap, you will become an unwitting co-conspirator in the theft of your own identity.
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It Contains Other Sensitive Information
Your email address often contains your name; your name and a number that means something to you or others who know you; or your name in combination with the name of the company where you work. Even if it doesn’t contain your name, it may include the year you were born, the college you attended or your favorite band. All of that information becomes tiny breadcrumbs that can be used by scammers to piece together passwords, answer security questions or even just help the thieves appear like they know who you are so they can get you to send cash or give up even more sensitive information.
More From Credit.com: 3 Dumb Things You Can Do With Email
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It Often Doubles as a User ID
Take a moment to think about the number of websites that either prompt you to use your email address in the user ID box or even pre-populate the user ID box with your email address. The theory is that consumers don’t want to be bothered to come up with different user ID for their email, financial services and social networking sites. Using an email address makes it really simple by keeping things uniform and easy.
But what’s convenient for you is just as convenient for scammers. Hackers and identity thieves can also get into your accounts faster if you use an email address as your user ID, and it’s the first thing they try. Consider the fact that it places them 50 percent down the road toward gaining access to your financial life.
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Scammers Can Use It As 'Proof' They're Legitimate
One of the many ways that identity thieves work is by running a con, often when they have a few pieces of information, like a phone number and email address and home address, and want to parlay that into more useable data points. This typically involves the deft deployment of known facts to create the illusion of access in the hope of getting still more.
How it works: If a crook has your email address, they can usually cobble together other facts about you, like your name, where you live, where your kids go to school—any information that is online and contains both your email address and an implicit statement of fact about you: e.g,. your email on a PTA meeting list. A scammer can then call you up and use those facts to "prove" they know you in an attempt to get access to your financial accounts or other information they need to steal your identity. Never provide.
It’s the Command Center for Your Online Life
If a thief gets control of your email account, you are vulnerable to attack elsewhere. Many passwords reset via email, so even if you use a separate, long and strong password on, for instance, your bank account, a thief with access to your email can reset it. Many sites offer the choice between password reset via email or a mobile phone. Choose the latter for greater security.
More From Credit.com: 5 Things an Identity Thief Can Do With Your Social Security Number
2.
It’s an Easy Way to Speak Directly to You
Email is the vehicle of choice for phishers and spearphishers. That’s why so much effort on the part of fraudsters has gone into designing email messages that look like the real thing. Gone are the days of bad graphics, bad grammar and spelling that would put a 5-year-old to shame. Cyber scammers use email because it works. Offering a deal that is too good to be true; scaring the daylights out of the email recipient about an existing account, or a new account or suspicious activity; threatening big penalties for unpaid tax bills -- the triggers are too many to list.
More From Credit.com: Will the New Consumer Privacy Bill Protect You?
Providing personal information via email or entering sensitive personal information on a website designed to look like a financial or government institution can be a sort of Pavlovian response for many people. If you fall for the trap, you will become an unwitting co-conspirator in the theft of your own identity.
3.
It Contains Other Sensitive Information
Your email address often contains your name; your name and a number that means something to you or others who know you; or your name in combination with the name of the company where you work. Even if it doesn’t contain your name, it may include the year you were born, the college you attended or your favorite band. All of that information becomes tiny breadcrumbs that can be used by scammers to piece together passwords, answer security questions or even just help the thieves appear like they know who you are so they can get you to send cash or give up even more sensitive information.
More From Credit.com: 3 Dumb Things You Can Do With Email
4.
It Often Doubles as a User ID
Take a moment to think about the number of websites that either prompt you to use your email address in the user ID box or even pre-populate the user ID box with your email address. The theory is that consumers don’t want to be bothered to come up with different user ID for their email, financial services and social networking sites. Using an email address makes it really simple by keeping things uniform and easy.
But what’s convenient for you is just as convenient for scammers. Hackers and identity thieves can also get into your accounts faster if you use an email address as your user ID, and it’s the first thing they try. Consider the fact that it places them 50 percent down the road toward gaining access to your financial life.
5.
Scammers Can Use It As 'Proof' They're Legitimate
One of the many ways that identity thieves work is by running a con, often when they have a few pieces of information, like a phone number and email address and home address, and want to parlay that into more useable data points. This typically involves the deft deployment of known facts to create the illusion of access in the hope of getting still more.
How it works: If a crook has your email address, they can usually cobble together other facts about you, like your name, where you live, where your kids go to school—any information that is online and contains both your email address and an implicit statement of fact about you: e.g,. your email on a PTA meeting list. A scammer can then call you up and use those facts to "prove" they know you in an attempt to get access to your financial accounts or other information they need to steal your identity. Never provide.
Who is Here From Matchdoctor?
I thought it was pretty sneaky of them to pretend they were wanting to improve the site, then suddenly disappear. 
online today!
Men and women....Crudeness....
Always hearing friom women about the incredibly inappropriate stuff they get from men. Rarely hear such from men on women. Is this real?
online now!
English only interface...
Most of the meeting websites I'm a member of have an English only interfaces.
If you type in any other language, the outcome is a garbled bunch of question marks.
I just tested CS by sending mail to myself with a few words in Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew and Greek. Nothing was readable.
For curiosity, (at a later date) I'll try some special characters found in Spanish, Danish or German at another time to see if they pass or fail.
I'm impressed with the global representation this website offers and noticed lots of members from Indonesia, Romania, Cambodia, Lithuania, Switzerland, South Korea for example. That said, all of them must communicate in English.
A few sites running chat rooms can support different languages and I believe it's because the company offering the service is not directly connected to the website who uses them.
I'm thinking there must be more, but currently Asia Friend Finder is the only one I know of to support other languages. With the help of a language translator I've read lots of blogs in Chinese and Japanese. I cannot recall if Thai, Vietnamese or Korean are supported. That's the subject of a future blog.
If a woman in Thailand sees a man in her country, she must communicate with him in English. Something to think about.
If you type in any other language, the outcome is a garbled bunch of question marks.
I just tested CS by sending mail to myself with a few words in Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew and Greek. Nothing was readable.
For curiosity, (at a later date) I'll try some special characters found in Spanish, Danish or German at another time to see if they pass or fail.
I'm impressed with the global representation this website offers and noticed lots of members from Indonesia, Romania, Cambodia, Lithuania, Switzerland, South Korea for example. That said, all of them must communicate in English.
A few sites running chat rooms can support different languages and I believe it's because the company offering the service is not directly connected to the website who uses them.
I'm thinking there must be more, but currently Asia Friend Finder is the only one I know of to support other languages. With the help of a language translator I've read lots of blogs in Chinese and Japanese. I cannot recall if Thai, Vietnamese or Korean are supported. That's the subject of a future blog.
If a woman in Thailand sees a man in her country, she must communicate with him in English. Something to think about.
online now!
Extended Family...
I divorced my first wife around 1990 and we've remained friends all these years.
The marriage wasn't right for, us but her judgement and advice on other issues is extremely accurate. She's usually the first person I call to bounce off an idea to need a second opinion.
I have a step-daughter who is at the top of the list for support.
For both of them, being there for help goes both ways.
Neither of them meddle, but are there for me and should I get a call, I'm ready to help them.
I know most people I'm in contact with are always in a state of friction with their exes. Knowing them and their former mates personalities, I'm surprised they actually married. Well.. I shouldn't be so surprised as s*xual relationships are like library books and have to be returned when the time is up.
For the present, my wife and I have been invited to many extended family parties. They have accepted her and she has accepted them and that's a good thing.
Thanks for reading my blog!
(I thought I had a typo but it's word filtering - you cannot say se*ual on a website for adults)
The marriage wasn't right for, us but her judgement and advice on other issues is extremely accurate. She's usually the first person I call to bounce off an idea to need a second opinion.
I have a step-daughter who is at the top of the list for support.
For both of them, being there for help goes both ways.
Neither of them meddle, but are there for me and should I get a call, I'm ready to help them.
I know most people I'm in contact with are always in a state of friction with their exes. Knowing them and their former mates personalities, I'm surprised they actually married. Well.. I shouldn't be so surprised as s*xual relationships are like library books and have to be returned when the time is up.
For the present, my wife and I have been invited to many extended family parties. They have accepted her and she has accepted them and that's a good thing.
Thanks for reading my blog!
(I thought I had a typo but it's word filtering - you cannot say se*ual on a website for adults)
Benefits of Friends
Don't you love it when you see old friends and even though time has passed since you last saw them, it's like no time has passed at all?
Yesterday, my mortgage broker who became a very good friend in the 1990's, finally came out to see me and my 'new' house. Although we'd spoken at length last year, we've hardly spoken since, and not due to anything other than life getting in the way.
He was RV'ing down south for a good portion of the winter, and I was immersed in coding and revamping one of my websites, applying for the various market venues, and exploring my new community with my camera.
It was amazing to see him again, and his hugs are absolutely terrific. I haven't had such a good hug in a long time. Not that I haven't been hugged, but not like that! We spent the afternoon chatting and catching up on each other's lives, laughing, and generally enjoying ourselves. (And no, he's not a FWB, just simply a male friend).
He is also an avid cyclist, and we've made plans to ride the Iron Horse trail together, which I can hardly wait to do again. But there's also other trails we talked of riding together, both of us saying we'd love to ride either the Iron Horse Trail for it's entire length of 243 miles, or any other rail trail that offers the same thing.
There is a group upcountry here that offers rail trail tours of five days, which I have to look into further. Neither one of us wants to 'camp' and take all the paraphernalia required to do so, and would rather either B&B it along the way, or have someone spotting us in an RV, so we have a place to overnight before we take the next leg of our journey.
As things have settled down a bit, I'm thinking that maybe next week he and I would go to a new rail trail I've never been to before, as I've got a craving to go somewhere different.
It was so wonderful to reconnect, and funny that I'd been thinking about him and how we hadn't seen or talked to each other for quite awhile, and poof! He pops up in a text message, wanting to see me.
It was such a great afternoon, I can hardly wait to go on a new bike ride with him. Mind you, he's been known to be rather unreliable at times, so if he doesn't come with me, I'll go anyway. Now I just have to figure out which day I want to go.
And for GentleJim - here's the pics you asked to see.
Yesterday, my mortgage broker who became a very good friend in the 1990's, finally came out to see me and my 'new' house. Although we'd spoken at length last year, we've hardly spoken since, and not due to anything other than life getting in the way.
He was RV'ing down south for a good portion of the winter, and I was immersed in coding and revamping one of my websites, applying for the various market venues, and exploring my new community with my camera.
It was amazing to see him again, and his hugs are absolutely terrific. I haven't had such a good hug in a long time. Not that I haven't been hugged, but not like that! We spent the afternoon chatting and catching up on each other's lives, laughing, and generally enjoying ourselves. (And no, he's not a FWB, just simply a male friend).
He is also an avid cyclist, and we've made plans to ride the Iron Horse trail together, which I can hardly wait to do again. But there's also other trails we talked of riding together, both of us saying we'd love to ride either the Iron Horse Trail for it's entire length of 243 miles, or any other rail trail that offers the same thing.
There is a group upcountry here that offers rail trail tours of five days, which I have to look into further. Neither one of us wants to 'camp' and take all the paraphernalia required to do so, and would rather either B&B it along the way, or have someone spotting us in an RV, so we have a place to overnight before we take the next leg of our journey.
As things have settled down a bit, I'm thinking that maybe next week he and I would go to a new rail trail I've never been to before, as I've got a craving to go somewhere different.
It was so wonderful to reconnect, and funny that I'd been thinking about him and how we hadn't seen or talked to each other for quite awhile, and poof! He pops up in a text message, wanting to see me.
It was such a great afternoon, I can hardly wait to go on a new bike ride with him. Mind you, he's been known to be rather unreliable at times, so if he doesn't come with me, I'll go anyway. Now I just have to figure out which day I want to go.
And for GentleJim - here's the pics you asked to see.
HERE I COME AGAIN......... with my own music
In all modesty …...crazyheart asked for more music from me
SO THERE WE ARE
a video of myself recently...…….
(( must say I look and feel better now without that spot on my forehead......that did worry me very much ……..did manage to erase it ))
so HOPE YOU ENJOY my new tracks and videos
thanks ………….
SO THERE WE ARE
a video of myself recently...…….
(( must say I look and feel better now without that spot on my forehead......that did worry me very much ……..did manage to erase it ))
so HOPE YOU ENJOY my new tracks and videos
thanks ………….
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