Removing personal info from web?
Grandkid comes over who is taking a elementary police class, and in few second finds my info on web. Some of info is from public records I think, and other info I believe is from daughter thinking ho...
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pickjare wrote:I don't take any surveys via Internet or especially email, period. The last thing I want is a bot finding an active IP to rain additional spam and/ or bugs on. Running IOS 90% of the time helps infection allot. All this goes straight to JUNK. Same with unidentified calls now. They know just enough to attempt to bait me into a conversation so I don't give em' a chance. Any unknown CID is sent to the answering machine, and in the 5 years I've done this, not ONE message left. Wonder how many $5mil gifts from the Prince of Somalia I've missed out on.. ?wa8yxm wrote:I wonder how effective this is? I don't want to lie...but providing an incorrect birthday seems like a very good idea to avoid identity theft. This is the Internet, if somebody wants/needs private information such as birth date, it should be told in person.
The best way is to lie.. I'm serious.
FOr example I do dozens of Surverys every week, they all ask when I was born.. Well I will only tell you I was NOT born on January 20, 1950.. But that's what I tell them. and I always use the same date.
WHY. Well anyone trying to "Borrow" my Identity based on the on-line info.. Can't.
Or, would that person enter the correct birthdate right into the Internet so it's in cyberspace just the same?
The more they have, the clearer the map
