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How Identity Theft May Happen?

Unfortunately for us, it is reasonably easy for identity thieves to grab other people’s personal data and ply their trade. For instance, suppose that you misplace (or someone steals) your bag. From your bag, they obtain your driver’s license (with your name, street address, and DOB), credit cards (department store cards, gas cards and others), ATM cards (if you’re a forgetful person, complete with PIN numbers written down clearly), and also medical benefits cards (with your SSN). Many people even carry their Social Security cards and personal checkbooks in their wallets. All the crucial information an identity thief wants is right there in one location.

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How Your Garbage can Help an Identity Thief?

When an identity thief goes through the garbage of potential victim, it is known as dumpster diving. The only tools required are flashlight and a pair of gloves. (The best time to go on a garbage hunt is midnight, and the thief must be able to endure the scent – especially on a warm summer night.) The goal of dumpster diving is to get personal data that you discard without shredding or tearing. What type of important data, you may be wondering? The following list provides you with the answer:

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How do you know if a website is a scam? This site is real or it is a scam? Anyone has heard about this site, it is real? These questions are asked by normal people, on different sites and forums, because they want to know if  a site is secure or legit. If you access or you buy something from a unknown site or fake for sure you`ll lose your money and also your personal information will be exposed.

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As you see I try to help people to fight, to discover and to avoid any king of fraud. I help people through this blog, but also through Yahoo Answers. It seems that many people are fooled by swindlers that post fake and fraudulent auctions to sites like Autotrader, Craigslist, Ebay and many more. How do they cheat people? Spoofing legit companies.

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How to trace the email sender?

Hard question for all that don’t know how to see the email headers. The purpose of this post is to show you and learn you what are the email headers. Email headers are lines that are attached to any email message you received and all email clients have them. For the public eye the headers are lines like: To, From, Date, and Subject but if you look close to most of the email clients you will find more details.

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