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Sanity Check Number Fifteen:
Have you deactivated any old social media
and email accounts you no longer use?
Social media sites come and go and
today’s giants will most likely become
tomorrow’s forgotten dinosaurs. This has
happened in the past and many of us
have old social media accounts that we
haven’t used for years - we may even
have forgotten their existence.
Dormant social media accounts are a
gold mine for fraudsters because they can
take them over and use them without us
ever noticing.
A hacked account might:
• reveal information about you
• be used to fool your friends into disclosing
their data
O is for…
Old accounts
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Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012