Certainly, individuals usually shop often and spend bigger throughout the holidays and with the Valentine’s coming, shops are getting ready for more sales. For merchants, Valentine’s day presents a chance to boost their sales. For identity thieves and scammers, the holidays are also present opportunities to victimize unsuspecting people. How can you protect oneself against ID theft, particularly this holiday season? Here are several reminders:
Secure your computer, laptop computer and mobile phone. If you have any device that will connect with the internet, make sure that it is protected having an anti-virus and anti-spyware software. A recent study by Norton reveals which more than 1,000 internet users in the US are certainly not fully aware of the threat of Identity theft when hooked up online.
The study, entitled “Connected but Careless”, further reports that 4 out of 10 people access the internet through their mobile phones and 52% of these users are not designed by even a basic level of protection.
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