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The upcoming income tax season is another prime opportunity for scam artists to ply their trade. In Canada scammers are sending out emails purporting to be from Canada Revenue Agency, and good news: You have a refund!

There are a few ways that someone can gain unauthorized access to your email account. Possibly your password is too simple and someone can guess it. Or your password is great but someone can guess the answer to your password reset question.

Phishing involves a criminal sending out legitimate-looking e-mails to try to get the recipients to hand over personal and financial information. It usually involves the victim clicking on a link that takes them to a bogus website which looks very much like the legitimate site.

Firesheep lets you hijack other people’s insecure social network connections.  If someone uses a public WiFi connection to log onto Facebook et al., anyone using Firesheep can capture and display their authentication information.

Personal data is a valuable commodity in the cyber criminal underground economy. Annually hundreds of billions of dollars are lost by companies all around the world due to identity theft. It is estimated that 1 out of every 10 Americans has already been a victim of ID theft.

Cyber criminals have been busy using eBay and PayPal to scam companies out of big bucks. Two Vietnamese exchange students have been arrested so far. They made more than $1.2 million using eBay to sell products bought with stolen credit card numbers.

Every one of us has to be aware and cautious about our privacy and security on the Internet. Just one mistake can lead us into a costly and time-consuming quagmire. Read this article for information about online scams.

Phishing is when criminals try to get information from your computer by masquerading as a trusted friend or business using email or instant messaging.

Identity theft has become a major problem. The best way to cope with it is to be proactive. Read these great tips to protect yourself and your personal information. Best tip: use online data backup.