It may seem common sense, but clearly it is not when, according to a study conducted in Australia, over 40% of people accept as a friend to people that not even known in Facebook . This, according to this study is the first step for us to steal your identity. We’re not talking about a virus that put us on the computer or fill us email for spam. We’re talking about identity theft in what you might call real life. Let’s think coolly, if we accept someone as a friend on a social network have direct access to our life, as we have shared, of course.
In my case my mobile phone number, home address, my full name, my girlfriend, where I work, where I studied, my friends, my car, my family, and so on. This jeopardizes spectacular.
I lived as a case of identity theft
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, which caused me to sue for a payment of a commission on sales that I had not done. Finally everything was resolved amicably, but honestly I had him put fear in the body for a while. It is not uncommon to hear stories that one day at home receive the letter requesting a bank to pay the mortgage on a house that has not bought or loan of a car that does not have. If it is relatively easy for these things to happen without that not even imagine literally expose ourselves if we open the doors of our lives to strangers.
To overcome this there is no real solution, which must be applied is what we said a few times in
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, common sense. Yes, it sounds cliché, but the data is there and I have accepted more than one without knowing who is in the odd social network. PS: We should not succumb to the alarmist, but perhaps users of social networks of unsuspecting sin and the truth is that we should have all (I was the first) a little eye on who we accept.
Via | Lifehacker
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