Safety Tips Important Must Read
- Maintain and be in charge of the information you post. Consider restricting access to your page to a select group of people, for example, your friends from school, your club, your team, your community groups, college mates, or your family,
- Keep your information to yourself. Don’t post your full name, National insurance number, address, phone number, or bank and credit card account numbers. Also don’t post other people’s information, either. Be cautious about posting information that could be used to identify you or locate you offline. This could include the name of your school, favorite shopping places, sports team, clubs, and where you work or hang out.
- Make sure your screen name is discrete. Don’t use your name, your age, or your hometown. Even if you think your screen name makes you anonymous, it doesn’t take a genius to combine clues to figure out who you are and where you can be found.
- Post only information that you are comfortable with others seeing and knowing about you. Many people can see your page, including your parents, your teachers, the police, the college you might want to apply to next year, or the job you might want to apply for in five years.
- Flirting with strangers online could have serious consequences. Because some people lie about who they really are, you never really know who you’re dealing with.
- Be wary if a new online friend wants to meet you in person. Before you decide to meet someone, do your research: Ask whether any of your friends know the person, and see what background you can dig up through online search engines. If you decide to meet them, be smart about it: Meet in a public place, during the day, with friends you trust. Tell an adult or a responsible sibling where you’re going, and when you expect to be back.
- Trust your gut if you have suspicions. If you feel threatened by someone or uncomfortable because of something online, tell an adult you trust and report it to the police and contact pomlesltd on pomlesltd@googlemail.com. You could end up preventing someone else from becoming a victim.
- Computer Protection: Maintenance of your computer is very important, ensure that you have installed recognized firewall software and keep updating your anti-virus program on your computer not forgetting spyware or adware blocker software this will prevent virus, spyware or adware programs from infection. Another important point is being wary of downloading or opening files sent to you, even from people you know. Many viruses pretend to be as someone you know. And hacking tools and programs (such as Trojan horses) can give someone a backdoor to your computer, all your passwords and banking information.
For More information please refer to the following websites for Safety tips
www.staysafe.org
www.i-safe.org
www.OnGuardOnline.gov
Market place safety tips
Never send your item before receiving the money
View properties in person and with another person present for safety reasons. Never make payments to rent a property without seeing it chances are it does not exist. Never send or wire money to landlords.
Never send or wire money to sellers or buyers. Fraudsters tend to use this ways. Use secure payment methods like PayPal Xycommunity doesn’t offer any sort of buyer protection/ payment programs. Any emails you receive that talk about such systems are scams, even if they may have the Xycommunity logo. Please also take special care when buying expensive items like mobile phones, laptops, plasma TVs, airline tickets and even tickets for shows/gigs. When buying airline tickets we suggest you take the seller\'s name and ticket number, check the ticket exists and take responsibility yourself for changing the names.
Never provide your personal or banking information (e.g. credit card number) to others over the Internet. Also do not have to provide your bank account details when applying for a job
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