| If you want to keep identity theft criminals and | | | | sent you. Whenever possible, you can simply copy or |
| hackers at bay and leave your email and identity | | | | download all the pertinent information and save it to |
| undisturbed, here are some suggestions: | | | | your hard drive. You should also refrain from storing |
| 1. Choose a famous and reputable email and internet | | | | your personal information, account password and |
| service provider. Internet service providers who offer | | | | credit card numbers in a separate folder in your email |
| email services often uses encryption technologies to | | | | because this will simply expose your private data to |
| catch malicious software messages even before they | | | | identity theft criminals. If you want, you can simply |
| get into the client's email account. This is also true for | | | | have all your important email and information printed |
| web-based email clients. Famous email services are | | | | and kept on a folder inside your vault. |
| less likely to not have some of form security or | | | | 4. If you insist on using email, protect your email |
| encryption technology. | | | | from unnecessary viruses and identity theft. |
| 2. Use only secure and strong passwords. Passwords | | | | Encryption technologies works like scrambler who |
| are the keys that protect your personal information | | | | jumbles your data before it is transferred to another |
| and email from being accessed by another person, | | | | location online. |
| especially identity theft criminals and hackers. For this | | | | 5. Use only good and reliable online services. Online |
| reason, you have to use strong and secure | | | | services like email programs and so on are only |
| passwords that will keep your personal information | | | | allowed to increase their account only in very special |
| and correspondence private. Strong passwords are | | | | emergencies. If you receive any email messages that |
| often composed of 8 characters or more, uses a | | | | contain websites that you did not ask, do not open it |
| combination of letters and numbers, combines uppers | | | | and have them removed immediately. They can be |
| case and lower case letters and most of all, is very | | | | spam messages that do not just fill your inbox with |
| hard for other people to guess but very easy for | | | | unnecessary files but cramp up your personal details |
| you to remember. You should not use universal | | | | as well. |
| passwords-one password for all online | | | | There are a lot of things that you can do to protect |
| accounts-because this will only make your other | | | | your personal information from theft nowadays. You |
| accounts vulnerable when one account is accessed. | | | | can start from the very small things that you can do |
| 3. Despite the security measures and strong | | | | to evade identity theft criminals to the very |
| passwords, if you feel that your account is still being | | | | complicated and complex steps that you can do like |
| compromised and there's practically a huge | | | | using encryption technologies. Just remember that |
| percentage of your account being accessed, then | | | | whatever you are trying to do, you always have to |
| you need to take the initiative of deleting any | | | | exercise extreme caution to protect yourself against |
| personal information from your inbox as well as other | | | | theft. |
| personal information that your friends might have | | | | |