Guarding your Web Words

Email identity theft involves the fraudulent use of your email address for phishing or spamming. The usual victim of email identity theft is a commercial enterprise. Email identity theft is perpetrated for two purposes - to convince others that they are legitimate firms that have legitimate reasons for asking for people's financial information such as bank access, credit card numbers and so forth. This is phishing.

The second purpose behind email identity theft is for spamming. The most common of the ISPs and email providers have spam blockers. If, however, someone perpetrating email identity theft sends an email to an individual or firm under the guise of someone that person or firm knows the message will not be blocked.

Here are some tips on email identity theft prevention.

The first suggestion for prevention of email identity theft is to use a DNS service supplier or domain registrar not related to your Web host company. This is useful to prevent your being blocked on the Web if someone passes themselves off as you and commits phishing or spamming expeditions.

You might want to take this one step further and keep a second copy of your site as a hot backup from a second server and host provider. If the first host company fails you can switch quickly.

Shorten your Time to Live (TTL) settings, which will limit your DNS records lifetime. The longer your cached copies of the DNS records are available the longer users can be directed to the fraudulent site.

The last tip on email identity theft prevention is to choose a host that gives you an IP address that is not shared. If you share your address and the other sites are victims of email identity theft, you could be shut down when they are.





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Article written by Samuel Abdullah

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