Wise Up To...Protecting Your Child Online

By Nigel Ross

What every parent needs to read before letting their children online. Covering all the major issues and threats across the net, social networks covered in detail. If you only read one book this year, make sure you read this one. Written by Nigel Ross an Identity Theft and security expert.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nigel Ross
• Release date: Dec 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301065998

Nigel Ross

Hi, having spent years within security, it was a natural step to set up an Identity Theft Consultancy to answer people's concerns. Being qualified by the Identity Management Institute(IMI) as an Certified Identity Protection Adviser(CIPA) running my business in the UK all consultants that are employed by www.identitytheftsecuresolutions.com (my company) are like myself CIPA. Looking forward to serving you and educating the public with more Ebooks to follow!! Kind Regards, Nigel Ross.

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Wise Up To...

- Protecting Your Child Online -

Including Identity Theft

Another great Wise Up To... Book!

By Nigel Ross

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Copyright © 2012 Nigel Ross.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Identity Theft

Chapter Two: World Wide Web & Identity Theft

Chapter Three: Facebook

Chapter Four: Online Relationships & Dating

Chapter Five: Craigslist

Chapter Six: eBay & Shopping Online

Chapter Seven: Protect Your Child Online

Conclusion

Additional Resources

Introduction

In the past two decades but more specifically the last ten years technology has advanced to a stage where it is anywhere and everywhere. Technology is now a vital part of education, even in the early years, where children are being introduced to computers and software that in the past would have only been taught during your teenage years, if at all.

The rapid progression of how information is found and displayed has opened a number of doors that were previously not granted to older generations yet it has also presented a few problems down the road.

Unfortunately, a far too large number of children, teenagers, and even 20-something adults are not aware of the implications of identity theft online, and they continue to share personal information or post items that may compromise their identity permanently.

As a result, this book is intended to inform parents not only about the dangers your children currently face on the World Wide Web, but solutions to teach them for avoiding becoming yet the latest victim of identity theft.

Chapter One: Identity Theft

The legal definition of Identity theft is the fraudulent acquisition and use of a person’s private identifying information, usually for financial gain. In short, it is when someone fraudulently attempts to become you.

Identity theft is certainly not a term that is new, as your average individual is fully aware of the word and has likely been involved with it to some degree, whether it’s simply your bank offering ID theft services or even a call from the institution flagging suspicious or fraudulent activity on your account.

Identity theft is usually just associated with financial gain, and while by far the most popular and severe type it also trickles down to adolescents who may have their personal information compromised for purposes not just limited to finances.

Children, especially teens, are the most vulnerable to identity theft online because they are frequent visitors and may not realize yet the implications of their actions. Consequently, it is vital that parents are actively involved with their child’s involvement online, including not just monitoring social media but kick starting conversations about the dangers of ID theft as soon as he or she starts using a computer at home or in the classroom. Educational institutions are using computers more and more as a learning device, but unfortunately they are not doing enough to educate and warn students about the dangers of the internet, including identity theft.

Identity theft, while the number of cases has increased rapidly over the past few years is nothing new. In fact the FBI has been dealing with criminals using fake IDs for decades, check forgers, scams as well as other schemes. However it is hard to ignore the impact the World Wide Web has had on identity theft.

The rate of which information is transferred on the internet is moving at speeds that have never been witnessed before. Consequently, criminals have found the internet to be a place where personal information is easy to achieve for a variety of factors including A) the internet is a difficult place to police, B) not enough people are educated about online dangers, C) children and the elderly use the internet, two age groups vulnerable and easily fooled by scams, D) con jobs and other scams are easy to setup, difficult to catch in the act, and as a result criminals are often long gone by the time the authorities are tipped of.

The FBI is doing what it can with intelligence to catch more identity thefts in the act and with increasingly sophisticated technology it is possible to increase a crackdown which, ultimately, lowers the amount of crimes being