When friends notified me that I had been beaten up and
robbed while in Spain and needed money, I was stunned. I was still at home in Ontario. I had been the
victim of an online fraud. Somehow, the crooks had obtained my email password.
Rogers, my service provider, was obliging and helped me reset it. The crooks
had also taken my accounts list or address book, too.
Advice to all:
Protect your email account password. The Rogers technician advises not to agree
when a Windows account asks if you want
it to remember your password. Should a virus enter your computer, it can easily
access the remembered passwords. Passwords are a nuisance sometimes when you
must enter them and you are in a hurry, but they are necessary and should be
carefully protected. Banks, she said, never ask to remember passwords .
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