Ways to Prevent or Avoid E-mail Hacking

Ways to Prevent or Avoid E-mail Hacking – How to stop e-mail or email hacking? This article gives your tips and pointers to avoid e-mail hacking. When you are in the Internet nothing seems to be safe. The personal information about you and your personal messages on your e-mail account can be a subject of series of attacks from e-mail hackers. The targets of this unscrupulous Internet menace are usually the celebrities, influential and wealthy people and can be a simple folks. The modus operandi of these people is to ask for money from the relatives of the person being attacked by an email hacker saying that the alleged victim is stranded or was been a victim of robbery or the likes. And the result, it may cause panic to relatives or friends of the person being hacked and soon enough money will be sent to the hackers.

Here are some ways of protecting the integrity of your e-mail accounts and any personal information about you.

• Change your passwords every three months, but if you can do it often the better, be sure though that you know your new password very well and you may write your passwords in a notepad or sticky note to avoid confusion
• Use separate e-mail accounts, one for personal use and one for business use.
• Use a variety of letters and numbers with your accounts, usually the longer the better.
• Always sign out after using computers with Internet connections especially when you are in a public place (computer rentals or Internet Café)
• Do not open suspicious looking e-mails from strange or unfamiliar e-mail senders, these may contain virus or key loggers.
• As much as possible do not reveal your e-mail address publicly just like in your official fan page in Facebook, e-mail hackers might exploit this.
• If you have an account that contains valuable information and has connections with your money accounts like Paypal, it is wise to refrain from opening your accounts in public place there might be some key loggers implanted with their computers.
•  Here it is, I hope this article will be beneficial to you.