Absolutely nothing will avoid you from becoming an identity theft fraud victim. These criminals can easily commit identity because with the careless information-handling processes within the workplace, lenient credit industry practices, and also the effortlessness of getting SSNs.

Save all the information for an emergency. Having a backup of all the information regarding your credit cards, date of expiration, emergency numbers, name of issuing bank, is a good procedure. Put all this information on a box and even add copies of your driving license, your social security card, your passport. Be sure to lock the place where you will be saving this or find some other secure place such as a safe deposit box in a bank.

There are lots of people out there making it easy to steal their identities. You don’t want to be one of them. There is a lot you can do without major expenditures and major changes in your lifestyle. The point of this book is to teach you what you can do and let you make intelligent trade-offs yourself of security versus cost and inconvenience.

Now that you know a bit about what spyware is and how to tell if a computer is infected, let’s get down to the removal process. First things first – backup your προσωπικα δεδομενα! You should be doing this regularly anyway. Using Windows XP – Click Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >> System Tools, and then click Backup to start the wizard.

These cyber criminals just want to get your passwords to your bank accounts or your credit card information. But the emails sometimes look highly credibly that a lot of personal data protection people seems to fall for their games following the instructions given on the email. If you suspect something may be wrong with your account or anything else, go and check it from your computer and NEVER open the link sent on the email to do so.

This is not the only reason why you might want to lookup who the owner is. Actually I can cite a real case here involving a good friend of mine. In short, he had suspected his girlfriend was cheating on him, but he wasn’t entirely sure. When he looked through her cell phone however, he found one number that he didn’t recognize. Now normally in that situation you would have to confront your partner and possibly face the noise of “not trusting me and how dare you even think it!” – not good! However, luckily for him, he asked me for my advise and I told him about the service I know of which he went on to use and unearth their affair… ouch!

Don’t ignore early signs – A common mistake is to take lightly the early signs of identity theft. The quicker it is caught, the sooner it will be resolved and at the least cost in effort and dollars.