by Lorelei Cohen

Created on: October 04, 2009   Last Updated: May 25, 2012

The Internet can be a scary place to play. There are unscrupulous individuals out there attempting to steal your money, and your identity, and it is up to you to insure your safety out there. There are a million Internet scams out there attempting to lure you in, and you need to be aware of the measures, and steps that you need to use to protect yourself while Online.

So how can you help to keep your wallet and your identity away from those unscrupulous individuals? Start by not giving them the information that they want. Don't just hand over your personal information and credit card numbers to those individuals, or websites, that are going to take advantage of your trusting nature.

This is exactly why you need to read every word of the fine print on all "terms and conditions" before you sign up for any website, program, or business that is offered up on the Web. A large number of these scam sites use the word "Free" to lure you in. They use free videos, free pictures, a free website, free promotions for your website, free money. Free! Free! Free! And if they don't think that free is something that you are going to believe, than they will prey on your desire to get ahead with easy ways to get rich quick, and jobs that sound just too good to be true.

You just have to know that if it sounds to good to be true, well then, it probably is. Read every line of the small print! Many companies are going to sell your personal information for a profit and it says so right in their contract. At the very least you may find your email address spammed from thousands of disreputable companies trying to sell you items from penis enlargements to non invasive breast enhancers. But you may also find yourself under a much more sinister attack. When you signed that contract you may have agreed to give them open reign of your credit card for any other services which they deem necessary to insure your pleasurable participation while on their site. Or you may have agreed to use their long distance Internet provider for the time that you are visiting their site. This could equal up to thousands of dollars in charges to your credit card which you would then find out about at some convenient time a little further down the road. The beauty of these schemes is that you may have visited their site five or more times before you become aware of the additional charges being applied to your account. Simply reading every word of that intentionally long and boring contract could prevent this from

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