Please spare a few minutes to read this...It’s an eye opener.
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From time to time we have been advised on the negative side of social websites. Most advise is about the dangers that lurk on such websites when members tend to forget and reveal private matters to strangers and all over the world. I receive this email and it might have been travelling around the globe for sometimes but it is still valid to be read as a reminder so that more and more people are vary of what they post on the internet especially on social websites. This does not involves Facebook alone.
- Very important message, please read to the END.
It's a good reminder even though we may know (or not) all this about Facebook. One other good practice is about Instant Personalization:
· The New Face Book Privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" goes into effect. The new setting shares your data with non-Facebook websites & it is automatically set to "Enabled". · Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Apps & Websites > Instant Personalization >edit settings & uncheck "Enable". BTW If your friends don't do this, they will be sharing info about you as well. Please copy and repost
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE AN ACCOUNT ON FACE BOOK - BEWARE!
"The information people give out on Facebook, when linked up with other information freely available on the internet, is an absolute goldmine for criminals," the Daily Mail quoted Michael Fraser, a reformed burglar who presents the BBC's 'Beat The Burglar' programme, as saying.
"One year, you might have a party and give out your address. A while later, you might tell everyone that it is your 30th birthday.
"So, if you've accepted me as a friend of a friend, I know your name, your address and your birth date.
"From that, I can go to 192.com or 192.com usa and on there I can find out what you do for a living, how much your home is worth - and whether you're likely to be worth burgling.
I might have already made up my mind because you've posted party pictures on Facebook and I can see what kind of valuables you have in the house - and which rooms they're in. Then you go and tell your Facebook friends how much you're looking forward to going on holiday next Tuesday.
"I can go on to Google Street View and see actual photographs of your home. I can see if you have a burglar alarm, or whether there are any bushes in the garden to hide in. And I can see all the alleyways I can escape down. And, of course, I know you won't be at home.
"Once you accept a stranger into your Facebook account, they can begin what we call social engineering - delicately asking questions to build up information about you,' said
Jason Hart, senior vice president of CRYPTOCard Network Security.
"And that can cause havoc. Let's say they got your email address, then they could go to your email account pretending to be you and saying you have forgotten your password.
"Once they have that secret information, the email account will let them in. And once they are in there, they can find lots of sensitive information, such as your Amazon and eBay account history.
"They can then go to those sites pretending to be you and saying you have lost your passwords, and guess what happens then?
"Those sites send the passwords to your email account - the one that they have already conned their way into.
"Crooks who do this usually use the credit card details you have stored there to buy online gift vouchers that can be traded on the internet. It is a form of instant currency.
"Even worse, if you have a PayPal account and have credit in it, your so-called friend could clean it out. (Me: Thats why it is very dangeruous to reveal your email password to friends because Paypal account uses your email ad account profile)
"Effectively, they have become an electronic version of you, they can change all your passwords and begin stealing from you.
The world is a dangerous place not because of people who do evil, but because of good people who look on and do nothing about it.
-- Albert Einstein
