The methods used by web stalkers to invade a person’s privacy, steal their identity, and threaten their safety and well-being are detailed in this guide to avoiding identity theft on the Internet. With advice from practicing psychologists and more than a decade of research and observations, this reference provides the tools for protecting one’s anonymity, financial information, and reputation. The actual techniques used by web stalkers and the prevention and intervention secrets used to bring them to justice are discussed.
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Stephen Andert is a technology specialist for First Health Group Corporation. He lives in Chandler, Arizona.
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This review is from: Web Stalkers: Protect Yourself from Internet Criminals & Psychopaths (911) (Paperback)
Andert gives a good, understandable description of the dangers on the Internet. As the Web becomes more heavily used, it attracts attackers or predators, who often look for novice, unwary users. The book explains how people often let down their guards when conversing with strangers on the net. Where this communication might be via email, Instant Messaging or other modalities. It has been observed that the anonymous, remote nature leads some people to confide things that they would not to a stranger they met in person.
Anyway, Andert offers practical suggestions to limit your exposure through such inadvertant actions. You are also warned to beware of giving up too much personal data on some purported web site, or in a response to an email. The data might be sufficient, possibly in conjunction with other facts that could be amassed about you, for someone to forge your electronic identity. Perhaps, though, Andert could have omitted the "911" from the title. Very US-centric. Other countries don't use this as the emergency phone number. It detracts from the global appeal of this book.
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"There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time.",
This review is from: Web Stalkers: Protect Yourself from Internet Criminals & Psychopaths (911) (Paperback)
"Web Stalkers" is a true revelation for anyone seeking to understand the phenomena, detailing how any malefactor can become empowered by conducting false light defamation campaigns and web conspiracies through online forums, blogs and more.
Recently a group of fanatics were targeting individuals whom they felt deserved to be vanquished online and so they set out with invasions of privacy, web conspiracies and false light defamation campaigns disguised as free speech and parody in interactive chat rooms and forums. It took some time but after years of deeply rooted contempt, false light defamation and libel they accomplished their goal. For the first time the stratagem behind this kind of treachery is exposed. And although justice may never be served, it is all the more relevant that pause be given to recognize how embarrassingly simple it is to seduce the average person into conspiring, committing and justifying unconscionable, shameful and criminal acts. As much as "Web Stalkers" is vindication for the victims emerging from this new frontier in communications and a guide for the future and prevention, it also serves a double role as a deterrent for would be web conspirators and stalkers who may not be aware that they are also would be criminals as well. Unfortunately for far too many normally average everyday people it is too late... The anonymity and the immediacy of this new form of communication has brought out the worst in them. At least with a book like "Web Stalkers" there is some closure and vindication for those who have been searching for this information for years. After reading it, the criminal wrongdoing that has always been suspect of being present online but never really clearly defined, is finally revealed. There is no second-guessing any of it anymore. As for the new age of criminals, "There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time."
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