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Saturday, 11 October 2008 |
By Ben Needles
 Sad as it is, there is the danger of being victimized by criminals everywhere these days. You may not even see them, but they are there waiting for an opportunity. One of the biggest threats to your security is identity theft over the internet. For tech-savvy criminals around the globe, stealing credit card information is rapidly becoming the most popular crime to commit.
This is an easy crime for the perpetrators since they can be on the other side of the world from their victims. They can get online using false information, making it very difficult to track them. The scam most commonly seen is called phishing. This involves sending out fake emails from financial institutions and credit card companies. The email will say that the customer must take some action in connection with their account. Other emails will state that the customer must act immediately since someone else has been accessing their account.
It is often no problem at all to spot these fake emails - for instance, if you get an email purporting to be from a company with which you |
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