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MONITOR CYBER COMMERCE TRENDS
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MOBILE COMMERCE
Did you know that more than 95% of email traffic is a threat to Internet Safety? Most of it is SPAM or PHISHING to cause damage to the Internet users across the World.
One of the real world applications of technology in preventing fraud is GPS Tracking.
You can use GPS tracking to control lot many things in your business from asset to your fleet vehicles.
Protecting Yourself Against Fraud
Protecting yourself against cyber crime and commerce related frauds is easy. In order to protect against fraudsters, you could follow simple safeguards:
- If you are buying something online, make sure that the order form is encrypted and the communication cannot be seen by anyone else. One of the best ways to check this is to validate if the site in question has a SSL certificate to encrypt communication.
- Always avoid 'Get-Rich' scheme emails that originate from Nigeria and other African countries.
- Never store your passwords in your computer. These can be compromised by spyware programme and used by scammers to cause financial damage.
- Never share your credit card information with any person.
- Whenever you are buying online, check the antecedents of the company before buying a product.You can easily do this by checking company reputation on search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.
- If you own a domain, do make sure that the email address on the file is a working email address and you have access to it at all times. Always remember the password of the domain control panel and the associated email address or else you may lose your domain in domain theft.
- If you represent business, take steps to control identity theft cases. Most identity theft cases take through ex-employees and your company should immediately suspend or terminate email addresses and web accounts of an employee who leaves the company.
- Always keep the software code running on your website updated. If the software on your website is not hardened, the vulnerabilities could be exploited by hackers to access important information.
