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We hear it all the time ‘My Facebook account has been hacked’. Just of late there has been a spate of people setting up fake sites that try to phish for your login information on all the sites you use. Its estimated that there are around 10 000 mnew phishing websites created every day by hackers and fraudsters in the hope of getting that vital login info that will allow them to access a users email and thus find any information that may enable them to commit online fraud. It’s reported that 1 in 3 of all online transactions are fraudulent thats an amazing figure we must all know someone that its efffected I have personally had it happen to me it’s not very nice so please please be vigilant when logging into websites.

The best resolution would be to make sure that your primary email login information is different from that of all the websites you frequent especially Facebook.

So to summurize follow these tips from us to avoid being phished

• Check for the https:// in place of http:// in secure transaction sites check out paypals site.
• Check for the enitre domain name including the ‘http://www.’ in Google to see if it’s trusted if it is the site will have site links these are links that appear in Google a good example is phish tank usually the big Gonly gives site links to those sites that it trusts.
• Never have the same password for your email as you do the sites you use please try to get into the habit of this just for peace for mind just in case you become a victim of a phishing attack.
• Install a website phishing detector AVG Free has one built in and best of all its completely free to use and will keep you safe.
• If you find a site that you think is a phishing site add it to phish tank they will check it out then add it to their black list and inform allmajor search engines.

We hope that you find this artcile helpful in preventing you from having your account hacked.