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If you’ve ever seen this message entering your Facebook account with a video attached, you also know that this is the grammatically correct way of writing the often jumbled sentence. You also know that whoever’s account sent you the message, is now a victim of a phishing scam.
I think I know of at least 10 of my friends who’s accounts got broken into. Since my Facebook message notifications get sent straight to my phone, at random points during the day my phone would vibrate with these scam messages. And that folks, gets very annoying. So I see why so many people are opting to delete their accounts.
To help with this issue, Facebook officials have provided how-to instructions to setting your notifications in a way that they’ll alert you if someone hacks into your account. It’s set up in a way that you have to register your computer and set up security questions when logging in from other computers. Hopefully this new technique would work…I’m tired of these random messages!
Be sure to change your password if it happens to you!
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When it comes to your personal information security, and the use of passwords, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
It is very wise to choose passwords that are no less then 8 characters in length (some security experts recommend at least 14 characters). In your password, there should be NO word or phrase, it should contain at least one number, one capital letter, and one symbol of some kind.
Never use a password that can be guessed based on information in your personal profile or account. In that case, you might as well just hand your login over to the hacker. The password should be totally meaningless to anyone but you.
Also, keep in mind, that once someone hacks into one account, it makes it that much easier to continue to exploit you based on the new information that they now have available to them, to try to get into your back accounts, email, work related files, and everything else that may be of value to you.
The average loss a person experiences due to an identity theft is around $31,500 before actions are taken to cut the identity thief off. If that isn’t incentive for a thief to break into an account, I don’t know what is.
Protecting your identity, all aspects of it, is completely worth it. No one needs that kind of headache.
P.S. If you are one of the foolish individuals 1 in 6 whose passwords are: “12345″, “123456″, “password”, or “iloveyou” change it NOW.
References cited:
(1) Microsoft Online Safety – Create Strong Passwords: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/create.aspx
(2) Helium – Things you shouldn’t do on Facebook: http://www.helium.com/items/1832409-things-you-shouldnt-do-on-facebook-privacy-and-security
(3) CBC.ca Marketplace – Is your password literally ‘Password’?: http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/blog/2010/05/is-your-computer-password-literally-password.html
(4) CBC.ca News – Imperva reveals top 20 passwords: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/01/21/consumer-passwords.html
(5) Wikipedia – Password Strength: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength
(6) V3.co.uk – Identity Theft Costs An Average of $31K: http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/news/2201915/identity-theft-costs-average
Couldn’t have said it better myself…:) Hey! Maybe you should blog sometime!
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