Monday, January 28, 2008

How to Protect your Identity on the Net

Someone`s using your profile!!! -this is only a warning message, that this could happen to you

PLEASE, DON`T OVERLOOK THIS MESSAGE. ONLY IF YOU ACT IMMEDIATELY, YOU WILL PROTECT YOUR PROFILE AND YOUR IDENTITY

For us at http://www.sozila.com/ is easy to catch people using fake profiles and when we do, we trow them out of the site and ban them from ever entering. Unfortunatelly, we can`t do it constantly, which is why we are asking our members to help us. We have created a 'FLAG' link in every profile and would appreciate your help in identifying such individuals. Another way of protecting yourself is by reading the tutorial I have provided below.

If you are using a free email such as gmail.com or yahoo.com and you have a profile on http://www.sozila.com/, combining information from these sites and your profile can give a potential intruder a pretty good guessing opportunity for what your login information is for these email accounts and from there to your profile on http://www.sozila.com/.

Why and How does this happen?

Q. Finding out the username and the email account you are using
A. For an intruder to find out what your password is on the free email account you are using, they have to know your username and your email address. Very often, the username 'may be' your nickname on SoZila.com and to get your email address, the potential intruder may ask you for it under the pretext to send you photos or anything else. Solution: DON'T GIVE OUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!

Q. Using the 'Forgotten Password' option in your free email account
A. When the intruder knows the username you are using on your free email account, they can request the password by using the 'Forgotten Password' option.

Q. Date of Birth
A. Next step for the intruder is to enter your date of birth, which can be easily found in your profile

Q. Secret Question
A. Last step for an intruder to enter your email account is to enter the answer to a secret question you may have selected. Very often, people use logical questions and answers, which can be easily guessed by knowing a little bit about you. Solution: CHANGE YOUR SECRET QUESTION AND ANSWER IMMEDIATELY!

Now that the intruder knows your login to your email address, he can easily get to your profile on SoZila.com by clicking on 'Forgotten Password' on SoZila.com. The login information is immediately being sent to your email address. You can try it if you don't believe it.

LESSON LEARNED: DON'T USE YOUR USERNAME, MOBILE NUMBER, SYMBOLS OR NUMBERS IN LOGICAL ORDER. CHANGE YOUR SECRET QUESTION AND ANSWER TO YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNTS IMMEDIATELY. DON'T GIVE OUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST: DON'T TRUST ANYONE WITHOUT KNOWING HIM OR HER BETTER

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