Pinterest users lifting pictures from forum
I've always said watch all what you post about your personal information regarding your family and RV on a public forum. A friend of mine found a picture of my RV that I posted here on Pinterest. A...
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pnichols wrote:STBRetired wrote:
You cannot live your life in fear.
Well ..... I suspect that millions of people all over the world have to do just that.
Here in the U.S. if one is paranoid enough, they can reduce or eliminate their fears by protecting themselves from various "dangers" in all kinds of ways. Of course many here lazily rely on only luck or statistics to get by living their lives with very little fear of anything. ;)
Not paranoid or living in fear. :R
It's a fact that if one is not prudent about their information on the internet the devious of the world 'will' take advantage of it.
FACT:
Local Horse Community facebook and forum.
Everyone practically knows everyone else on the forum. Newcomers to the forum were welcomed. Everyone was proudly posting pictures of their horse farms, the inside of the barns and horses, show pictures, what each one was worth and/or for sale for, where the next show was that they were going to, dates and times, who they hired to feed the horses that stayed behind, when they would come out to take care of them, etc. etc.
The horse thieves used each and every bit of this information.
Why not, they were hand fed all the information they needed to pull off the perfect heist, they had pictures of the inside of the entire horse compounds, when the owners would be gone, which horses they should steal to make good money on, etc.
Horse theft quadrupled in our area after the popularity of facebook and forums. The thieves that did finally get caught were found to have joined these owners facebook and local forums.
The above scenario can happen to ANY one ANY facebook or forum. Personal, clubs etc.
Criminals now can VERY easily get all the info they need off the internet to make their jobs easier. Whether it be robbery or even something as serious as abduction etc.
Fearful, paranoid? No. I am certainly not going to PROVIDE the information to the criminals.
It's called common sense, keeping my property and families safe. IMHO many people are just not thinking of all the ramifications of all what 'can' happen allowing so much of their personal information to be out there.
