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Sanity Check Number Five:
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Is your email address shown in your public
profile?
When you first sign up for many social
media sites, your email address is
requested of you and it may even be
displayed in your public profile.
Not only that, but your email address often
becomes your user name for the service
because many social media sites take
shortcuts around more sensible security
measures.
Having your email address in your public
profile exposes you to SPAM as well as
harassment. It will also give a fraudster the
first half of your logon information and thus
help them to take over your account.
E
is for…
E
mail
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