Last Updated on Monday, 30 January 2012 20:04
Written by Katie Lusso
Monday, 30 January 2012 19:01
This week is “privacy week” and state officials are working hard to make sure your personal life stays just that, personal.
We’ve all dealt with it, you get an e-mail or a phone call where someone is asking for your personal information. Hopefully you didn’t share that information, but if you did you may have become a victim of identity theft.
On Monday the Barbour County Senior Center Center invited Rita McCrobie from the Office of the Attorney General, to come in and talk about some of the most common scams.
As people get more high tech, the scams become more complex. Say you get a phone call, and your caller ID says it’s a bank or a courthouse. You may want to think twice before sharing your information.
It’s called spoofing, and it’s becoming more and more of a problem especially for seniors.
The list of scams goes on and McCrobie says what you can do to stay safe is just be aware.
Some of the other common scams included “phishing” also known as spam e-mail, or the ever popular “foreign lottery scam”.
If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. If you didn’t enter any contests than you most likely didn’t win one.
She says representatives will be stopping at several more locations for those who couldn’t make it out today.
List of Upcoming “Data Privacy” Meetings
Article source: http://www.wdtv.com/index.php/home/local-news/11996-barbour-county-seniors-learn-the-ins-and-outs-of-preventing-id-theft-
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