Senior Internet Safety

Today our society revolves around the internet. The internet saves us time, money, and can provide us with entertainment (cat videos or goats fainting on YouTube), but are you protecting yourself while using it? Here are a few tips you can take to increase your protection while using the web.

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

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

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.

Each year around 15 million United States residents are affected by Identity Theft. This causes financial

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.

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.

For example, someone pretends to a representative from your bank or Credit Card Company and they ask to verify your personal information which enables them to steal your identity. Most of the time, they will ask for your social security number and account information. There are steps you can take to protect yourself from these types of scams. First, be wary of emails with urgent request for personal or financial information. Never give out such information unless you are absolutely certain of the source and it’s secure. Always look for, if dealing with a website, a padlock in the corner of the web browser. Next, never click on any links in email message that you receive. There is always the possibility that they contain spyware. Avoiding phishing scams is critical in identity theft

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

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.

aware of what information is safe to put on the Internet and what is not only miners

What is online safety? Why is online so important? How could we live without things that connect us online for example smartphones, personal computers, and laptops? After all that is way connect to our friends, family and teachers. There are many million of sites to visit, some offer important information, and others waste time and could even get you trouble

These statistics above only prove the importance of security on the internet. We all have to do our part in protecting ourselves when online. Privacy and security on the internet are both supported by our ability to protect our own personal information when

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