9. âYou stand a better chance at any given time of loosing your personally
identifiable information than you do of just about any other form of nasty thing
than can happen to a person over their lifetime.â
The National Safety Council
1 in 146,107,962.00 could potentially win the power ball lottery grand prize
1 in 3,563,608.83 could potentially win the 200,000 dollar prize in the power ball
1 in 3000 will be killed by lighting in any given year
1 in 1,313 chance of being killed by a doctor
1 in 314 chance of being killed by a firearm
1 in 84 chance of being killed in a car crash over your lifetime
1 in 3 has had their personally identifiable
information lost this year!!
10. A new, targeted social media
version of a very old scam -- the
âNigerian,â or â419,â ploy
12. How did they do that?
Because Facebook regularly contacts its users
through e-mail, and includes links in those e-mails
to login pages, the format is ripe for phishers. It's
easy to imitate Facebook e-mails and simply send
users clicking to a look-a-like login page that steal
passwords.
13.
14. Punked!
Lots of tools on the net for people who may want to
take advantage of you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zvPEfksbyQ
18. âWho steals my purse steals
trashâŠBut he that filches from me
my good name âŠ... Makes me poor
indeed.â
Othello, Act 3 Scene 3
19. When in doubt about a potential scam check the
Internet Crime Complaint Center
http://www.ic3.gov/about/default.aspx
20.
21. Donât let them get away with it.
Get mad or get even!
Report them immediately to:
http://www.ic3.gov/cplaint/default.aspx
ORâŠbecome a scam baiter
(not really recommended, but some people are just really angry)
23. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF34sqrAPHU
We are all victims!
ï1700 new victims in the course of this meeting.
ïBy the end of the decade someone in your family will be
a victim.
ïLowest estimate of projected damage is $5000.
ïOnly 1 in 700 is investigated.
ï1 year or less in jail.
ï70 â 80 % involve illegal dugs
ïFBI reports 30,000 computer a week are taken over.
25. The meteoric rise in social media use has also
created a launch pad for identity thieves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwFC0jfxTco
âMy prediction âŠ.is that the increase in social networking
activity, along with a userâs failure to implement security and
privacy settings and protocols, will lead to an increased
exposure of not only the userâs personal information but
possibly that of their âfriendsâ.
Robert Siciliano : CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com
26. Go to this site: Choose at least two games and report your
findings and observations on the Discussion Board.
http://www.onguardonline.gov/games/overview.aspx
27. A word or two about passwords
andâŠ. hacking Facebook
ï No birthdates or social security numbers
ï No motherâs maiden name
ï No universal password
ï Yes to long passwords (over eight characters)
ï Yes to random patterns â first letter of each word in your favorite song with your favorite number.
ï Yes to changing it frequently
28. Three FREE âmust haveâ online tools
to create unique passwords.
http://www.passwordchart.com/
40. TemptationâŠ..Grooming
Ref. Number:EGOGHS255125600419
Batch Number: 14/ 01259/ IPD
Ticket Number:113-2471-752-209
Serial Number: 5063-11
Attention
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Winners
in our UNIVERSAL STAKES Lottery Program held on the 20th
JULY, 2004.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number
27522465896-6453 with serial number 3772-554 drew lucky
numbers 7-14-18-31-45 which consequently won in the 2ND
category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay out of USD$1,500,000 ( One Million Five Hundred
Dollars) Only .CONGRATULATIONS!
41. Some Quick Facts
ï FBI 2012 statistics show $3 billion in losses
ï Median individual loss - $575.
ï But reported loss is tip of the project iceberg â estimated to
be in the billions. Only 1 in 10 crime reported
42. What Scammers Love
ï Social networking sites
ï People who click on links
ï Pictures, blogs
ï Manually hacking âcaptchaâ registration blocks.
43. ScaREWARE
Pretends to detect a virus and offers
to help with inexpensive debugging
software (usually around $50) â then..
You give your credit card # for the software fix!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_bZiEMkd5Y
45. Beware!
Texting for
Dollars
ï Text message from your bank or credit card company to call
right away and verify account information!
OR
ï Youâve won a free gift from a reputable vendor like Sears or
Macyâs or like the text above â âAn apple free prize.â
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtsdK3vLT6k
46. Bogus Love
âWire me some money for an airline ticket
so that I can be with you forever.â
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyC0EyyuSlc&feature=player_embedded#!
1) Fake photos: You may be virtual dating with somebody else.
2) Hidden costs: Sign-up could be free, but everything else requires
you to pay extra fees.
3) Milking your Bank Account: The guy/girl is in distress and urgently
need money, e.g. accidents, trapped at airport, hospitalized, etc.
47. âMake ME your favorite
charityâŠplease :( â
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyzfdTVvV5k
Their pitch: Speed up relief efforts â wire and send personal info
such as social security and checking account numbers.
48. Log on here:
The hot-spot Hot Seat
âComing to a location near you.â
http://telkomhell.com/wi-fi-hotspot-security.html
49. Cute ads but
Beware!
Not so free credit reports.
Any Web site or print ad offering free credit reports has to display this
disclosure across the top of each page:
THIS NOTICE IS REQUIRED BY LAW. Read more at FTC.GOV.
You have the right to a free credit report from
AnnualCreditReport.com
or 877-322-8228, the ONLY authorized source under federal law.
50. Free Credit Report?
This one may be the one to try.
www.creditkarma.com
I
Now, a new site called CreditKarma is offering free daily credit
scores. For comparison, FICOâs own Score Watch program costs
$89.95 per year. So whatâs the catch? There is none! Try it.
Editor's Notes
Some viewers of Gilliganâs Island apparently took the show seriously in the 1960s. The U.S. Coast Guard received several telegrams from concerned citizens asking why they didnât rescue the Minnowâs crew.
This has been an excellent week. I have received four or five emails from London and Africa announcing that I have been selected to receive, from each of them, sums in eXcess of ten million dollars The quite remarkable fact seems to be that one fellowâs plane crash, anotherâs unexpected demiseâapparently run over by a herd of elephantsâ a thirdâs cruel wife, have all resulted in me being just the right person on the planet to receive millions of dollars which was left in their estates. Not only that: Several lotteries have paid off this week as well, and, just like the poor African ministers who want to share their millions with me, the lottery companies are happy to send money as well. It seems all I have to do is let any one of these secret correspondents know a few details about my bank account and social security number and my life worries will be over.
Starting next week, Verizon will double the early-termination fee for smartphones......The phone is designed in such a way that you can almost never avoid getting $1.99 charge on the bill. Around the OK button on a typical flip phone are the up, down, left, right arrows. If you open the flip and accidentally press the up arrow key, you see that the phone starts to connect to the web. So you hit END right away. Well, too late. You will be charged $1.99 for that 0.02 kilobytes of data......Every month, the 87 million customers will accidentally hit that key a few times a month! Thatâs over $300 million per month in data revenue off a simple mistake!..
Web criminals are getting much more personal in their attacks, using social networking sites and other databases to make their story lines much more believable.
Bryan Rutberg's daughter was among the first to notice something odd about her dad's Facebook page. At about 8 p.m. on Jan. 21, she ran into his bedroom and asked why he'd changed his status to: âBRYAN IS IN URGENT NEED OF HELP!!!â
In Rutberg's case, criminals managed to steal his Facebook login password, steal his Facebook identity, and change his page to make it appear he was in trouble. Next, the criminals sent e-mails to dozens of friends, begging them for help.
Donât do any banking unless you know it a secure location. How? Look for âhttpsâ (not just http) in the URL and the small padlock icon in the lower right hand corner of your browser.
Now, a new site called CreditKarma is offering free daily credit scores. For comparison, FICOâs own Score Watch program costs $89.95 per year. So whatâs the catch?1. Itâs not a real FICO score. This is another FICO-clone, with a score ranging from 300 to 900. (FICO is from 300 to 850.) It also doesnât say from which bureau this score is based upon, as they say they can pull from any of the big three (Experian, Equifax, Transunion). My guess is that theyâll use whatever is available that is both cheaper than FICO and still reasonably accurate. Thatâs what I would doâŠ2. You only get the score. The service is pretty barebones. You donât get information about whoâs pulling your credit, how often they are doing it, or information about your existing credit lines. So the âalertsâ feature is missing. Instead, the primary attraction is the ability to see trends - is your score increasing or decreasing over time?3. They are advertiser-supported, so I guess they are counting on people to obsessively check their score every day. Iâve always been a bit mystified by such behavior, but I donât check the stock market ticker all day long either. From their privacy policy it seems that they are using your personal information to target ads to you, but arenât actually sharing your info with others unless you opt-in. I sure hope not!Security and Privacy ConcernsOkay, itâs free, so price isnât a barrier to using this service. But itâs definitely wise to think twice before giving out personal information like my Social Security number to a start-up company. I read through their site, and didnât see any glaring security holes. They use common third-party systems like ScanAlert Hacker Safe, TRUSTe, and Verisign. If you do notice something fishy, please share in the comments. The CEO will be reading, given that heâs the one that told me about this site.