7 tips to avoid information theft

Online payment - including online payment, bank card services ., is becoming more and more popular in our country. Attached to the convenience is the risk of stealing personal information about accounts, passwords .

The following seven tips from the advice of the US Federal Trade Commission hope to help you more or less:

1. Limit the disclosure of more personal information over the phone, via email, through Internet services, especially through conversations with strangers or less likely to meet.

Some crooks can take advantage of people from banks or service providers to 'solicit' you to disclose information.

In case of necessity, the information provided to the authorized person is also very limited.

For example, in 3 types of information, username, PIN number, ID Card, usually only one disclosure. If someone asks you to disclose the whole thing, then that person 'has a problem'. The manager usually only asks you to reveal one of the information needed to authenticate.

2. Ask your service provider (bank, ISP) about the necessary policy when disclosing information. In any case, new information is completely revealed.

If necessary, you can ask the authorized person to tell you the reason for needing to know the information, or just say a part in an information.

For example, your password is 123456, sometimes you just need to write 123 . that's enough. Managers will have a way to know and confirm when they need it.

3. Be aware of people in your family who sometimes unintentionally disclose important information to help scammers track.

And absolutely do not contain any personal information about the shared computer of the family.

4. Store all personal belongings , such as bills, insurance cards, contracts containing sensitive information in a safe place, not messy, can be leaked information I mean.

5. No coding is common information , such as the names of parents, relatives, birth dates, identity card numbers . in general, the information you often use to communicate .

And to store this information, it is best not to store it in commonly used devices. Unfortunately, if you lose it, the risk of information leakage is huge.

6. Track access information to your account when possible, and avoid doing it in public places, especially Internet services.

When conducting a test, it is best to make sure that the computer you are using is clean (no virus, no monitoring programs, and is not monitored by others).

7. If you are a credit card user for payment , ask your bank for statistics on the income and expenditure situation for a year. In addition to security reasons, this is also a method to help you best manage your assets and your spending ability.

Remember, security is the policy and not the prevention. That means that if you give yourself a way of life and reasonable precautions, then you can rest assured that your head is high and sleep.