Archive for the ‘Paypal Scams’ Category
White House is Developing Plan to Help Stop Online Identity Theft
In the United States, online identity theft is a widespread problem. Each year it costs millions of people money and time so the White House has made a decision to step in. Their plan is called National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). This program is will provide protection to consumers during all their [...]
Online Banking—is it Safe?
Doing banking online is quick, easy, and a time saver. You can do it at home when you have a free time or on your lunch break at work. If you do your online banking anywhere but at home on your own personal computer, there are some things that you need to do to make [...]
Watch out for Paypal Email Scams
Identity thieves are always on the look-out for new ways to steal a person’s personal information without the person knowing anything about it until it is too late and all they can do is work to unravel all the harm the identity theft has caused. One such email scam that is circulating around cyber world [...]
How Phishing Works
Phishing is a method of online identity theft. When an identity theft uses phishing as a way to steal your identity, they first create a replica of a major site which appears to part of the company’s website. They even use the web page code to make it look more official. The next thing that [...]