Weekly Review

This has been a pretty average week. School is school, is going to be boring. We did not have a web 2.O tool this week; we did have a digital literacy component, though. It was on Scams and Phishing.  Here are the terms we had;

Scam:  An attempt to trick someone, usually with the intentions of stealing personal information.

Identity Theft: A type of crime in which your private information is stolen and used for criminal activity.

Vulnerable: When you are in a position that makes it easier for you to be harmed or attacked.

Phishing: When people send phony emails, pop up messages, social media messages, texts, calls, or links to fake websites. They send these in order to hook you into giving out your personal information.

Scam artist are not the brightest people ever because they leave little clues to if it is a scam. Some of these clues involve, a sense of urgency, needs account information, spelling errors, too good to be true, generic greeting.

Identify Theft is a major problem today; they will steal your information and use it for personal gain. They look for many things because with these thing are what they need in order to get your identity. Here’s a list of some things they look for:

Ø  Full name

Ø  Date Of birth

Ø  Social Security Number

Ø  Passwords

Ø  Previous and current address

Ø  Driver’s license or the number

Ø  Passport

f someone steals your personal information there are some things that can or will happen. Six things are, Jail, Bankrupt, Accounts Hacked, Bad credit, Parent trouble. If your credit goes down you can buy anything, if you do the interest with double or triple. Then you can pay the interest which makes it lower.

The thing people need to do is to be more careful and pay more attention to their surroundings. You need to shred all your receipts and important papers. Also if you have a prescription pill bottle scratch off the name of other information. They can steal your prescriptions and might even be able to get some information from it.