Protect your important information, identity, and personal security.

• Be careful to protect important information to be sure you and your assets are safe.

  1. Do not give your home address or telephone number to strangers

  • This could also mean members of your on-line classes.  Carefully decide.
  • Not all members of all classes are nice people.

  2. Do not give your Social Security number to anyone who asks for it on-line or the telephone.

• Your instructor will already have this and will not be asking you to reveal it.
• Social Security numbers are often used to get into a persons financial and personal information.

3. Never give you bank account or credit card numbers to someone who calls or emails you!

4. CAUTION: If you receive an email message or telephone call asking for personal or
     confidential information it may be a criminal trying to commit fraud.

• I recently had someone email me posing as my Internet Service Provide. 
  • They said that my credit card number had expired and I should send them the current number.
  • I called the Internet Service Provider and they told me that this was fraud.
  • The person was trying to get my credit card number to sell or make unauthorized purchases.
• It does not matter how nice they sound. Do not give out birth dates, or other important information.
• Do not give your private information even if they say that you have won something.
  • Have them send it to you in the mail so you can verify it