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How To Avoid Identity Theft Online

• Scrutinize return e-mail addresses.

• Never give personal or financial information to a sender of unsolicited email, even if it seems to be from a company you do business with ["Phishing" scams].

• Look for sloppiness, such as misspellings and poor grammar, on bogus Web sites.

• Try to verify a Web site by calling the company. If there's no phone number, that's a bad sign.

• Collect information about the site and report it to state and federal authorities. The Federal Trade Commission can be reached at 877-438-4338 or at www.consumer.gov/idtheft.

Sources: Yankee Group, Federal Trade Commission

 
Join Identity Theft Shield with Prepaid Legal Services - a low cost solution for individuals and businesses in the event of identity theft.
 

Spam Blocking

The latest attempt to keep your email box reliable is Challenge/Response technology.  If you receive lots of business inquiries through your website from new customers, this won't work well for you.  But you can use it to keep your personal email cleaner.  Here are reviews from PCMagazine explaining the two current leaders:

• ChoiceMail One
  Works with Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, Mozilla, PINE, The Bat.

• Qurb
  Works with Outlook only.

EmailWasher software may be a userful alternative for you. It has an interesting feature that allows you to bounce spam back as if you were an invalid email address.