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How To Do Business On The Internet: Avoiding The Thieves And …
June 5th, 2010 | 
Author: It is tough to avoid all would be thieves online and it’s like trusting the car next to you on the freeway, you hope they are law abiding citizens of the road but there’s no guarantee. They could just cut you off and sometimes do.
The same holds true on the Web, you have to take precautions, be alert, ask questions, and take nothing for granted. There are good legitimate businesses on the Web, even though some may lead you to believe that they are all evil thieves.
The first thing I look for on a site that I may want to buy something from, is a contact page. If there is a phone number, even better. If there is no contact page, I just move on to a different website. You could give the number a call just for fun to see if it is a real number. If the number is not, don’t waste your time, take your business somewhere else.
There are many good business people who work hard to make you the buyer happy. Why? Because they understand that if you are happy, you will come back and hopefully buy again from their business website. You are happy because it was a smooth transaction and they’re happy because they made a sale.
Always pay through a Secure Site.
Before you give your security information, you should have https:// in the browser at the top of the page. As to http:// with normal pages there is security code in that little “s”. You can click the Pay Pal link to see an example of the https://.
Create a free Pay Pal account, its very secure as well. A lot of businesses accept it on-line. If you are in business or going into business offering Pay Pal can boost sales and offer choice!
You should read payment instructions carefully. If it’s your first or second time purchasing something
on-line, it can be very intimidating. They do often ask for your e-mail info when you go to make your purchase. This is normal, they need that info to complete the purchase.
Use security products such as virus scans, firewalls, e-mail spam ware, and spy ware. This will help protect you against identity theft and protect your computer. Norton or McAfee are good, I have tried both and I don’t have a preference. Norton is what I currently use though.
There is also free services on the net. One thing you should be aware of is that security products
eat a lot of memory which has a tendency of slowing your computer down. You should have security stuff in place though, if you are going to make a downloadable purchase like information e-books.
I never open pop-ups pages, as it could contain a virus. The security firewalls and stuff sure do help, but sometimes they don’t catch everything when it comes to pop-ups.
Never give your pin or passwords to your accounts to anyone. If you are not sure, do a quick yahoo or Google search with the name and the word “scam” or “spam” next to it in the search. You will see pretty quickly if it’s a scam and then just avoid the would be thief.
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If You Cannot Stop Identity Theft Online, Prevent Them
Online, identity theft is quite common already. It seems that everybody is getting their businesses and transactions done online. That is why, online identity thieves are always on the lookout for their next victims.
How do online savvy protect themselves from the online identity thieves that are rampant nowadays?
1. Passwords.
Know that those little pop ups that is asking you if you would like to remember your user name and password is not helping you any. Most of these passwords are stored in system file and every half brained hackers know about this.
If you are not making use of firewalls, it is pretty easy for just about anyone to get hold of your password and use that anytime in your expense.
Be wary of these things. A prevention measure is to have a lengthy password complete with different kinds of characters.
As much as possible, do not input all your information in your computer or when something asks for it. The internet is definitely not a safe place to store your data and information.
2. Phishing.
What is phishing?
Phishing is one of the strategies being used to fool people into giving out their passwords and other personal information by pretending that they come from a genuine source.
Examples are emails sent by someone staring that you have won on some online raffle. And that you need to give out some information for verification. Out of hope or ignorance, you probably will end up giving them what they want.
This is what phishing is all about. Phishing scammers are very much skilled in imitating other styles and language of communications. They use lists of millions of email addresses to send their notes out to, in the hope of getting even a small number of victim.
If you find it hard to distinguish which emails you are receiving are scams, try to verify the source of the message. Better yet, ask some sort of proof first to find out they are really legitimate or not.
3. Firewalls.
In the past, firewalls were a luxury. But now, they have become a necessity.
There are already an increasing number of Internet hackers that are making use of free programs that can compromise your system.
Take note that there are around 60,000 points of entry to your computer. So you may want to at least filter out some of the entries that can cause trouble.
4. A secure connection.
Before sending out any personal information, make sure that you make it a point to check out the browser address bar. Why is this?
Because you may want to be assured that you are sending them on a secure connection. A secure connection is an address that begins with http. If you do not see this in the address browser, then you can guarantee that that link is not secured. They can be breached easily. There goes your details.
5. Always confirm.
Before you click on that send button, think hard first. Are you willing to give out vital information away? Do you trust the receiver of this?
Today, every bit of information can be built into a solid profile. You can actually get a lot of information about someone just by knowing his or her birthday. This is the online world. Apparently, identity thieves also know about this.
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