Senior Internet Safety

My grand mother had her identity stolen once. We found out the elderly are a common victim of identity theft. An entire year went by before she knew her identity was stolen and the only reason she found out was because she found out she was missing money from her account each month to the point that her mortgage payment was not being paid in full each month. She was under the impression the bank took care of everything, her husband was taking care of the finances but he passed away so everything started to unravel. Once she found out she owed the bank a lot of money toward her mortgage and was very behind on payments. She never found out who did it, had to get all new cards and numbers, and is still paying for it today.

Additional research shows that senior financial literacy education programs can be effective in producing positive outcomes. Realizing it will take “years, if not decades,” to change the behavior of seniors, Canadian researchers and government officials are collecting evidence to measure the progress of their senior financial literacy and exploitation programs across the nation (CFAC, 2014). Devices to measure short, medium and long term goals include financial capability surveys and administrative data on scam reporting (CFAC, 2014). The Canadian researchers concluded that “educational workshops in which seniors and their adult children participate offer strong potential heighten awareness of both parties and … build knowledge of what

Phishing scams and other SPAM emails with false promises have taken a disproportionate toll on the elderly, many of whom do not know how to use the internet as well as their younger counterparts. Elderly people are often not in classrooms or work environments with other people who can inform them about the latest phishing scams.

It is frightening to think of the number of ways your information can be stolen online. I am concerned about becoming a victim because I have been a victim three times. The first was a store clerk who copied my credit card number while I was making a purchase in a major department store. He then went on an internet shopping spree and bought computer games and online flowers. Fortunately for me he was stupid enough to have the games shipped to his house and the flowers to his mother. The second was when the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in Washington D.C. was hacked and my and my husband’s military and personal information was hacked from their servers. The last was by a fast food clerk in Korea who again decided to copy my credit card

The most effective way to protect your personal information on the internet is to have a strong password. A strong password should consist of a mixture of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters. Ideally you want a unique password made up of at least ten characters for every website you have an account on.

“Women belong in the kitchen.” “All women should be barefoot and pregnant.” “Women are strictly homemakers.” These are a few of the commonly used phrases regarding the female role in society that date back to the mid-seventeenth century. However, ardent supporters of gender equality have surfaced in almost every culture where this ideology is practiced. Nathaniel Hawthorne explores this inveterate societal conflict through his story The Scarlet Letter. The main character, Hester Prynne, is punished for committing adultery by being forced to wear a scarlet letter upon her bosom; Hawthorne created a story sympathetic to the female cause and demonstrated, through Hester, qualities of early feminism that later establish themselves during his

As adults age, memory and mental capacity can diminish, making them susceptible and easy targets for abuse and exploitation. Many nightly news programs have highlighted elderly being targeted by financial scammers and being taken for thousands. This is unfortunate and makes my heart just ache for all those affected by that sort of evil in the world.

While reading this chapter the part that stood out the most was the information on families protecting and advocating for older persons. It really took me by surprise to hear about how many elders get taken advantage of financially. This fraud can be through email, telemarketing, and many more.(Meyer & Frazier, 2007) In the book, it states “ To ensure that older individuals personal and financial choices are autonomous and authentic, American society has developed an extensive web laws designed to protect consumers again potential excesses of a completely unbridled, buyer beware market.” (Meyer & Frazier, Pg.

Austin, you should never say bad things online because you can get in trouble and you can’t take it back.

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Did you know that from 2005-2009 the internet scams rose from 100,000 per year to nearly 300, 000 per year (Internet Scam Statistics). From 2010- 2012 it continues to rise beyond 350,000 per year, with a monetary loss of over $300 million per year.

Privacy concerns on the web have become an undesirable consequence that people face with cyber technology. The ability of computers to gather and store unlimited amount of information from the internet raises privacy issues concerning an individual’s informational privacy. A person’s right to informational privacy is the ability to control the flow of their personal information, including the transfer and exchange of that information. An invasion of informational privacy denies people the right to control who accesses their personal information. Many internet users are unaware that they are more likely to compromise their privacy when using the internet services such as search engines and social networking sites. The internet provides access to an incredible amount of information from all over the world. Some internet users use the internet exclusively as a source of information while other internet users use the internet to create and disseminate information for others to use. However, the vast amount of information floating on the internet would not

On June 25th, 2009, I was riding front passenger while my mom drove her red Ford Escape down Highway 111. All of sudden a another vehicle speeds up on the left of us while at the same time my mom change into the left lane. Trying to avoid our vehicle, the car spun out and rolled over. My mom briefly lost control, but manage pull over to the side. While the accident was non collision the car and my young mind were hardly unscathed.

What is the harm of E-mail and website scams? What damage can they really do? A lot of people may not know but e-mail and web site scams are up and occurring more frequently due to the fact that most of us spend more time shopping and going online then you realize. And that e-mail and web site scams are illegal and cause more damage to the victim then realized. Yet this crime is harder to catch the suspect but there are ways

Internet safety has been an extensive issue for children and adolescents since accuse to the Internet has become readily available in homes. With Internet use increasing at such rapid rates and a large proportion of adolescents using the Internet daily, the awareness of Internet safety should be addressed. The term Internet safety can be defined as “the knowledge of maximizing an individuals safety to private information, and self protection from using the Internet”. The impact and influence that the Internet has on adolescent life is far-reaching and research findings by Norris (2007) indicate that one-quarter of the American youth that go online at home, do so in the privacy of their rooms. Additionally, with the recent trend of wireless connections there has been a profound expansion in private Internet usage. The diverse means by which adolescents are using the Internet has become coupled with inherent risks of unsupervised and uneducated use.