I need to send out an email to a bunch of older people.
Please read / critique / edit / change this for me.
Thank you.
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How do people get into your email?
Perhaps you have registered for something of no importance. Maybe a newsletter, maybe an internet forum, maybe a comedy site, who knows? But something of no importance.
And it gets hacked. Of course you don’t know that, perhaps you don’t even care since you’d stopped reading it years ago.
But the hackers now have the username / password that you used on that account. And of course you have used the same password for your Bank, Facebook, Email and goodness knows what else.
So now they go around trying them all and they get in. And once they are in then they block you out. They send emails to your friends asking for money as if they are you. They access your internet banking and buy gift cards that they send to themselves. They find out all sorts of personal information about you and start taking out loans and credit cards in your name.
It can get worse that you imagine.
• Use long and complicated passwords
• Use a different password for every account
• Consider using two-factor authorisation. You may need help with that of you may feel it is too much for you. But it is safe.
• You don’t need to change passwords regularly, that is bad advice and will just make you forget them. Just make them difficult to guess
• If you do need to write them down, then disguise them and put the piece of paper somewhere hidden. Perhaps write them down, photograph the piece of paper, hide the photograph on your phone and destroy the paper.
If in doubt, ask us.
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