Netiquette-
1. How do you treat people you met online?
2. What is Flame?
Online Safety
1. What is one thing you want to remember on the internet?
2. How many people are on the internet?
Cyber bullying-
1. What is cyber bullying?
2. Is bullying just on the Internet?
ID Theft-
1. What is ID theft?
2. What can do with that info?
Online tutorials-
1. What do they do?
2. Where can you find them?
Blogs-
1. What are blogs?
2. Can you use your life story’s in blogs?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Identity Theft
When someone uses your personally identifying info without your permission
FTC- Federal Trade Commission Estimates 9 million Americans each year have their identities stolen.
How do they do it?
What do They Do With It?
How Can You Find out If Your Identity Was Stolen
What Should You Do?
FTC- Federal Trade Commission Estimates 9 million Americans each year have their identities stolen.
- Renting an apartment
- obtain a credit Card
- Establish telephone account
- All using your name
How do they do it?
- Dumpster Diving
- Skimming-steal numbers when processing your card
- Phishing - pretend to be financial institutions
- Changing your address
- Old-fashion Stealing
- Pretexting- Use false pretenses to obtain info
What do They Do With It?
- Credit Card Fraud
- Phone or Utility Fraud
- Bank/Finance Fraud
- Government Fraud
How Can You Find out If Your Identity Was Stolen
- Monitor your accounts and banks statements
- Check credit report on regular Basis
What Should You Do?
- Call your credit card company immediately
- File a police report
- Check your credit reports
- Notifying other creditors
- Disputing any unauthorized transactions
Friday, January 7, 2011
Superhero
Batman, Because His really cool and I thought he the coolest superhero in my book plus he has cool gadgets too.
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