by kennethfsk

Created on: August 16, 2008

Defending your privacy on the Internet is hard. The only true way is to never give any information out, but we all know that the major site won't let you in with out giving up some information. There are some things you can do thought to keep it limited. I remember when I first started using the Internet, and like most people really never gave it a second thought, and I would fill out the forms, and subscribe to just about everything I had an interest in. We were all under the impression that our information was safe after all it was the Internet how could anyone see what I was putting on there.

The next thing you know you are getting about one hundred pieces of junk mail everyday from companies, and people you never heard of. Before the "delete all" but came along it was like you had to go through each one to get rid of them, by then you forgot why you got on line in the first place. Then if you didn't bother with them they would build up until you couldn't receive any e-mail at all and you had to do something about it.

When I got to the point that I would have four or five hundred of these junk mail items in my e-mail folder I got fed=2 0up, so I went on a personnel campaign to get rid of them all. Today there are faster ways to do this, but back then I would go to the unsubscribe button at the end of each email and I would unsubscribe from each, and everyone. This took several weeks to do bout I made it a point to spend about a half an hour everyday to do this. About four or five weeks into this mission of mine, I started to notice a drastic drop in the number of junk e-mails I was getting. I got it down to where I would only got three or four a day. That was a great victory for me.

As the technology advanced so did the ways of getting this information from you. To make things even worse the few websites that we did come to trust started to sell there client information to third parties who would sell it to the company's that wanted it. This started a hole new war against these phishing scamers, and it all so started a new wave of cyber crimes as well. The so called companies buying this information where nothing more than criminals invading the Internet to gain access to private information to be used in identity fraud.

Even as careful as I am I got caught in a scam that was still a legitimate business. I am continuing my higher education so I was on line looking for information about grants, and scholarships. I was on=2 0a well know web site when I cam

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