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Mike McCarron
01 Oct 2013

Thanks for the good, common sense reminder!!

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David Atkins
01 Oct 2013

Hi Bob
An interesting and very true article. I thought that I was the only one who felt this way about facebook!

Posted by:

Flabster
01 Oct 2013

AMEN! Within a month of getting PC Matic and thinking I was "safe" I got a virus that morphed and destroyed my laptop. I contacted PC Matic and they said "we can't catch everything...". I caught it! It destroyed my laptop. Bought a new laptop and got rid of PC Matic!

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Elliot Barber
01 Oct 2013

The best practice is to assume EVERYTHING in your e-mail is suspicious. Unless is it clear it is from a trusted source read everything on the e-mail carefully and with great concern.

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Gina
01 Oct 2013

Bob, all I can say is...Amen! People are the cause of their own demise, and accepting responsibility for their actions seems to have become about as appealing as having hives.

You're spot on with this..but then, how many will pay attention is the thing:)

Posted by:

Rick Lewos
01 Oct 2013

Bob, that's the hardest hitting, most accurate...hands down best article you've ever written.

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Ken Mitchell
01 Oct 2013

The first thing to remember about "free" web-based services such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, and Instagram; If you are not paying for the product, then YOU are the product being sold by those services.

This is not saying "Don't use these services"; this is saying "When you provide your personal information to this service, the provider will pay his expenses using your information". Sometimes that's a fair trade. Much of the time, it is not. But it's your call.

Posted by:

BigJohn
01 Oct 2013

Right on!!!
Some people are so naive.

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Jon
01 Oct 2013

One you have missed is the telephone follow-up to a legitimate order. We placed an order for groceries online (normal in the UK) with a large superstore. On the day of delivery (Sunday) we were phoned by the company, or someone who had all the details of the order, to say that our card had been refused.

This was not unusaual as there was a glitch in the credit card's fraud identification software at the time. He gave details of the card and re-presented it whilst on the phone. When it was refused again he asked if I could give him another card. I did and the order arrived quoting the second card.

When the card statements arrived a total of £6,500GBP had been 'spent' at a South African internet site that triggered the fraud protection built in to our software. This was made up of hundreds of purchases that didn't trigger the cards fraud software - go figure!

Luckily the second card had never been used elsewhere and the card company credited within 14 days.

A friend of ours helped put our minds at rest by explaining the procedure for reporting fraud and coaching us on how to get things right first time. He told us not to worry and that we would have everything sorted out quickly and efficiently by our card company.

Whan I asked him how he knew so much about the system his answer was 'Just think about it Jon, it happens to me regularly...... I'm blind'.

The multi-national retailer has never even returned our numerous calls. They refused to deal with anything and even insisted that the only people we could speak to were their 'processing division' in South Africa.....

It is a sick world we live in.

Thanks for the warnings,

Jon

Posted by:

al zimmerman
01 Oct 2013

Good advice as always. Thanks

Posted by:

Ihor Prociuk
01 Oct 2013

Hi Bob: While I'm quite certain there are bandits in Ukraine (I'm Ukrainian and like to keep up with what's going on over there), I'd like to correct something. There should never be a "the" in front of Ukraine. It should just say:

...have their accounts emptied by bandits in Ukraine ...

Regards,
Ihor [a nice Ukrainian name] :-)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks, corrected now!

Posted by:

bem
01 Oct 2013

I thoroughly enjoy your newsletters and appreciate your rational approach to peoples' irrational thinking. Which is why I am so surprised to see you repeat the irrational fear of pit bull dogs. No statistic indicates that there is any reason to fear pits over other dogs.
After 35 years of entering others' homes with them home or not I have encountered every kind of dog that I am supposed to fear. No problems. I have only been bitten once, that by a small terrier type whose owner had just said he wouldn't bite. I have never been threatened by a pit bull. They are quite friendly by nature. It takes a human to turn them into a stereotype. And no, I don't own one though I would.

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pseudoid
01 Oct 2013

Thanx for the reminder Bob Rankin.
I was not aware that Mark Twain used words like 'aint' >> “It ain’t what we don’t know that gets us in trouble,” “it’s what we think we know that ain’t so.”
Donald Rumsfeld put it more eloquently by stating: "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

Posted by:

George Reisman
01 Oct 2013

Amen! Personally I'm boycotting Facebook. I refuse to use Facebook to sign in to any website. Many the contest or raffle I would have won if I had been willing to "like" the sponsor on Facebook. As for LinkedIn - they're in the same league.

Posted by:

john
01 Oct 2013

Thank you Bob for the reminder. I don;t like to think I can get complacent but....... Best regards. john.

Posted by:

Nezzar
01 Oct 2013

Dear Bob,
You bet I am paying attention to you! I always do. Thanks much for an informative article. I am overly cautious about all that I do on the Internet, and it is nice to know that my suspicions are warranted.
Nezzar

Posted by:

Sherri
02 Oct 2013

Thanks for an informative article.

Posted by:

Marc de Piolenc
02 Oct 2013

Good stuff - valid well beyond the narrow sphere of computers and networks. Our gullibility is not innate, however - it's carefully cultivated. If you are successful in activating people's critical thinking facilities full-time, you may be considered a threat...

Posted by:

Jim Swan
02 Oct 2013

Thanks for this, Bob. Now for your next topic: Once we've gotten ourselves thoroughly into Facebook, LinkedIN, and any of the others, tell us how to get ourselves back out.

Posted by:

excelsior
02 Oct 2013

BOB, You're the man! Sounds like some of my legal client's actions after they've been advised not to engage in certain behavior, but do it anyway. Allowing emotion to rule logic.

Hey whats up with 'the Ukraine' I thought that was like 'the hospital' I never could understand the British saying someone was 'in hospital' and were taken to 'hospital' I always thought they were in 'the hospital' or taken to 'the hospital'. Hey I'm an old dog, all tricks are tough.

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