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Fraud in cyberspace

Příbor 21. 05. 2009

How to protect your identity.

 "On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog." Peter Steiner

This article should help you to protect yourself in cyberspace, because everybody could fall victim to on-line fraudsters. They work individually or in groups and mostly they are successful. I’ve no experience with these kinds of people, nevertheless I do everything possible not to get in trouble.

The internet has brought about a revolution in communication, trade, administration, education and entertainment. Nevertheless, it is a space for fraud. There are many people who want to steal your identity. The potential and the possibility of fraud is as unlimited as cyberspace itself.

There is a lot of kinds of fraud which could happen to you when you use credit cards and identification details to shop on the internet. However financial fraud may not be the only kind of deception you might encounter online. For example, you could be chatting with someone online who is using sexually hidden meaning when they write or pretending to be a completely different person to deceive you. IN addition to that, you don’t even know that you've been cheated or deceived until it happens.

So, how do you protect your personal information? There are a few tips: don't use a similar password for every account, use different passwords instead, don't give your personal information to anybody on a website, protect your computer with anti-spyware programmes and register processors and don't open the untrustworthy e-mails.

In conclusion I would like to say: you don't know who is on the other side, so you have to be careful with buying stuff, sending personal items of information. In fact, quite simply, in everything you do.