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 ID: 114505 Posts: 936 | Date: 2007-09-27 14:01 Simple pressure-free assignment. . .
Just let us know if it happened to you from this site or myspace or yahoo, or
any other cyber similar related situation.
I hope if any1 was taken by surprise, that you had a complete restorative
recovery.
Cheers to SAFE NET-WORKING!!!
I am aware that some of us on this site have had a sort of encounter, including
myself...
Thanks to a friend's concern.
Don't know the depth of the results, as of yet.
What seems harmless for now--In a foreign country, separate from my own, could
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 ID: 194304 Posts: 80 | Date: 2007-10-28 21:05 Yes, I was a victim of idenity theft via the internet. I traced it through
business activities I was involved in with ebay and yahoo. I will tell you from
experience that it causes alot of blowback to your day to day financial
activities and can sometimes take months to resolve. I would advise that if you
do alot of credit card transactions over the internet, that you create a
seperate account for yourself that you do not attach to your normal internet
transactions. That way if your account that you use for all your internet
transactions becomes victim to identity theft, you will have another source to
carry on daily transactions with. Thanks Mystique for having the insight to post
this thought. Good luck and be careful.
once upon a time.
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ID: 194304 Posts: 80 | Date: 2007-12-15 17:33 No one else on this website has ever been a victim of identity theft? I find
that hard to believe. C'mon and come foward. Your story might help someone else
and prevent them from going through the same unfortunate situation you went
through.
Dominic
once upon a time.
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 ID: 182744 Posts: 1741 | Date: 2007-12-15 18:32 No. Never been a victim of identity theft. Been using credit cards with
frequency on the internet since the mid-1980's.
I am confused, though. How was it possible for someone to get your credit card
information over the internet? It would take the fastest super computer close to
a billion years to crack the encryptions. Can you tell us more about what
happened so that we know what to watch for? Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should  |
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 ID: 194881 Posts: 25 | Date: 2007-12-16 09:51 i have been, twice. does that make me dumb? once many years ago. someone was
using my im id and logging on and reading/answering my emails. i am thinking a
crazy roommate? i closed that account. about a month ago i actually read my bank
statement for my travel account. this is something i normally don't do unless i
am actually travelling. i noticed i only only a fraction of what it had
contained at last glance. so, i read over the last several statements and saw
many transactions in a country that i had left many months earlier. the bank
says that the matter will be investigated. perhaps someone stole my debit card
number or fabricated a copy. all the same... i still have not seen a penny.
moreover, it is pretty shocking since none of the transactions were online, but
face-to-face transactions. so much for security measures. |
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ID: 182744 Posts: 1741 | Date: 2007-12-16 13:34 Andrea:
Online is actually safer than face to face. There is not a single instance of an
online credit card transaction being intercepted since banks started using the
internet in the early 1970s.
Ever wonder why, today, you slide your credit card through a magnetic reader
rather than the old method of handing it to the cashier and making a paper
receipt? That is because most credit card theft occurred at the cash register
when you were buying something. We were always told to tear up the carbon copy,
but the original copy remained with the minimum wage cashier.
Today, most credit card fraud and identity theft occurs among friends and
family. They are the ones who have access to you and your personal
information.
Theft over the internet comes from carelessness and stupidity of the victim.
People respond to Emails supposedly from their banks or a company they might
have done business with. The Email says there is a problem with your account,
please go to our website and re-enter your information. It is called phishing
and those site do not use encryption. You see, when you purchase something from
someone like Sears or J.C. Penny, they never, ever see your credit card number.
Your own computer encrypts the card number and simply sends and encrypted check
sum to a bank which then tell Sears the card is good. With a phishing site, you
are typing your credit card number straight to them. No legitimate company asks
you to verify your information by Email.
On all browsers today your will see a lock icon and the address area will turn
yellow to indicate that encryption is in progress. If you do not see these two
indicators DO NOT fill in your personal information.
The only other way people can get information is if you keep your credit card
number and ID information stored on your computer as a document and a virus,
trojan or worm sniffs it out. Do not keep your personal information stored on
your computer. Do not keep it on your telephone or PDA because if they are
stolen you are in trouble. Do not write it down on a pad or keep the info in
your purse. Remember Paris Hilton's telephone hack? The telephone was not
hacked...the perps got a hold of her security code that she had written down
somewhere and used that to log in to her account.
Face to face still remains the most unsafe method of purchase. Online stills
remains the safest by far.
Oh...how safe is online transactions? You use ATM machines, right? Guess
what...ATM machines have been online since the beginning. There is no other way
to transact via ATM and none of them has ever been hacked. Have faith that the universe will unfold as it should |
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ID: 194881 Posts: 25 | Date: 2007-12-16 19:19 so what do you suggest when i travel? i use a debit card because i do not feel
comfortable moving about with large sums of cash. frequenting the atm for small
amounts? or... just risking it like i had been doing? |
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