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Do you know what’s in your email?
Forget for a moment all of the personal details, the stories, the comments about your boss, or your ex-husband, the sordid details of your bachelor party that you wrote in an email thinking that no one would ever see them.
Forget for a moment that emails persist for years on every server-hop to your inbox.
Forget for a moment that your personal stories might accidentally get into the wrong hands.
Forget that it isn’t rocket science to find an email that may be many years old...
Think about the really dangerous side of email...
Emails contain valuable information that leave you vulnerable to spammers, identity theft, mistaken identity, spyware and thieves.
You don’t realize it, but every time you send an email you send out an electronic beacon that tells people the identity and location of your computer. Its all contained in that mysterious set of code in the header of every email. Hackers quickly learn your name and can send spyware to analyze keystrokes and detect potential passwords and credit card information.
You could find yourself the innocent victim of identity theft or perhaps even worse for the simple mistake of opening or sending an email...
And you wouldn’t be the first...
Click here for real life stories of the threats insecurity poses to you...
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