My Online World

………..Though it’s thanksgiving day in the US. The news last night wasn’t so good.There are lots of innocent people who were affected by the attack of terrorist in Mumbai, India. 100 people were killed and 300 wounded. All we could contribute is to pray for the souls of those innocent people and safety of the others who are still in fear right now.

I am joining Milet’s contest here:

The Just for Kicks Contest in my other blog has ended today. And I am so happy that there are a lot of blogger who took their time to participant. I would be announcing the winners tomorrow.

Anyway, as a way of saying THANKS, I am giving away two BDJ PLANNER to two lucky blogger who would blog about this contest (please put in a link to this blog in your entry) and then in your entry please answer this question.

Note : I’m changing the question. For those of you who have commented before I implemented the change, no need to edit your entries. They are fine by me.

Anyway here is the new question. What are the names (please include the url) of my four blogs? Easy right? In fact you can see the answer on the left sidebar.

MY ANSWERS:

• Blip Bit
• drama of my life
• Momie Space
• LupuSurivor

I am giving myself a nice treat this Christmas! Since my eyeglasses needs to be replaced badly, I am keeping my eyes on this Holiday Glass Frames From Zenni Optical. They are all over the net and have been the talk of the town over different blogs, No wonder that they have been regarded as The popular online eyeglasses shop. That is because you could never find any online shop offering a $ 8 Complete Rx Eyeglasses only from them!

Just this morning as I checked on my email, I was bothered when I saw the subject message from PayPal “Please Restore Your Account Access” I thought that my PayPal account was hacked! I immediately clicked on the link provided and this appeared as it loads

I noticed that the website wasn’t really from the paypal address as I closely checked on the address bar. I immediately close the browser and opened another to confirm its address.
Oh my! thank goodness. that was too close! If I have clicked and continue browsing from that page that would be the time my paypal account be hacked with me confirming all the details! I might have lost my earnings that I’ve been saving for months now, intended for Christmas season expenses. I am also thankful that I am using Firefox as my browser since I believe that it more secure than Internet Explorer. I immediately googled some info about the incident and this is a very helpful tips to keep in mind. beware fellow bloggers for your paypal earnings might be lost in a snap.

Warning sign 1
Quite often you may get emails from paypal asking you to verify your account or, asking you to provide some personal information. This is the first warning signal of Identity theft scam. Never, ever provide any information, because paypal will never request for any personal information from you.

Warning sign 2
The email for account verification, which you get in the name of paypal, will be sent to an email ID which is not in the paypal files.

Paypal will never greet you with ‘Dear Paypal Member’ or ‘Dear Paypal User’. It will always greet you with your name that is registered on the paypal account.

The fifth warning sign is the threatening email which might be informing you that paypal is going to suspend your account.

Do not click on a link that leads to a non-secure page, with no https and no secured browser, without a padlock in its lower left hand corner.

The seventh sign is bad English. Paypal will never use a bad english for communication.

If you observe any of these signs, then beware. It’s quite possible it’s a scam. If you have any kind of suspicion, then contact paypal for assistance.

The only person who you can blame for identity theft is yourself, so make sure that you are “street wise” in terms of online fraud and identity theft.