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Protect your important data from phisher! I read so many sad stories about people can’t access their online account because someone has hijacked their account. The worst cases are when hijacker can get inside into your online bank or online payment processor like paypal and take all the balance. Leave you nothing but pain.

What is phishing?

According to Wiki: phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Thieves will always try to collect your important data like username, password, credit card number, etc. That’s why we must be very careful to maintain our account.

Some tips to avoid phishing scam:

1. Never click on a link from untrusted site. It’s better if you keep your important site address in a bookmark, and only use that bookmark to redirect you to the real site.

2. If you get email from your (fake) online service provider, examine the url of the link. You may read the message but do not use any link form that email to login to your account. Use your bookmark!

3. Use third party tool like RoboForm to keep your login account and generate hard-to-guessed password. RoboForm is small application to help you to safely keep credential informations like username, password, credit cards detail, etc. You can download Roboform for free or read more about it at RoboForm official site.

4. If you mainly access your account from public computer, remember to delete all cookies and also beware of hidden application like keylogger. You can use Portable RoboForm in your flashdisk so you don’t have to type any information that keylogger try to steal. You can access your account with a single click.