Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Security

I want to let everyone know that if you are using email accounts such as gmail, yahoo, live, etc...
Please have a very secure password, recently an employee was a victim and had his email hijacked in which someone used it for spam attacks, fraud and plan old mischievous endeavors. A lot of people were affected by this and it has been a nightmare trying to explain to people what happened and that we do not have a bank account in Nigeria and we do not need any dates. By the way these hijackers, spammers or whatever you call them use personal ads in order to gather more and more emails. People who answer and use personal ads are some of the easiest targets to gather personal information. Also telephone numbers were given out in order to look authentic and obviously it worked because a lot of people fell victim to this crime. Through all of this we have learned a lot about security, fraud on eBay alone is a billion dollar business. One of the easiest targets is craigslist. It is community controlled and a ton of fraud goes on there. The safest way to protect your account is to use symbols along with letters and numbers. Some sights do not allow the use of symbols, so a good mix of letters and numbers would be suggested. Another tip on protecting your accounts is to change up passwords ever so often. The next post will be back to the car business, we just wanted to take a chance to let everyone know that an event like this can turn into a huge mess.
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With Ease,
The Motorsports Gallery

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