Web networkers 'at risk of fraud': "'More and more consumers are signing up to these sites every day and chances are they'll put on their date of birth, location, e-mail, job and marital status.
'Fraudsters can use this information to steal an individual's identity and open accounts in their name.'"
Yes, it's a bit unfortunate that what we do in terms of good practice as human beings is scouted and rerouted by the unscrupulous. It's actually really tiresome living in a world where just being your average citizen means you are being played for a sucker all the time. And the truth is, most people are not like that, but there are these opportunistic few who exploit everything. They really push it to the limit and that , in turn, impacts on the very trust we need to have to operate as happy, functional people. I want a scammer monitor. I know that's supposed to be my firewall...and I actually have to thank Feedburner because it does pick up lurkers quite well, as does StatCounter. We were talking at work today whether the investment in technology has been worth it and that no matter what we do we cannot get accuracy anymore because of the complexity of meshing programmes and network. The same with the Internet. A lot of it runs on goodwill...but then there are people looking for the rip off loopholes.Bugga them.
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