Monday, October 31, 2011

SCARY!!!

Filipinos offer prayers for the dead online

After visiting the above-mentioned news link, checking out their system on on line prayers for the dead, I was fortunately reminded to review my PayPal account.

Yes mate, I do have a PayPal Account. I think, I created it not for the purpose of paving online but for the reason of security. Having created my own, I have the feeling of security that no identity theft villain can create an account using my details that they can gather online. Add to that the personal information that I voluntarily gave in my application for loyalty cards among others. 

We are just not so sure where this details end up so be extra cautious giving out details especially thru emails and phone conversation.

Going back to reviewing my PayPal account, I just noticed that is is too easy to get that account stolen.

In the event that you have forgotten your password, all the details needed to reset your password are among the information that we have voluntarily given in our applications for loyalty cards and other stuff. I even remember that some required our cards photocopied front and back portion. And we are already aware of the fact that CSC cannot protect against phishing scams.

Having gave out all those details, the last piece to complete account theft is the email password. And these villain might be equipped to generate the correct password. It is better cautious than sorry.

I myself have voluntarily given my details, but today I hope to have fixed it by not linking my email address to all those personal details given out. 

Be extra cautious, the SCAMMERS are abound!!!

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