Identity Theft Check

Recently, after a short while, I logged back into my Myspace account, only to be told that I had been ‘phished’ and that I needed to change my password.

I’d never even heard of phishing before, so was a bit alarmed when I was told I’d been victim to it. Basically, phishing is when fraudsters get you to put your login details into a page that looks like the site, but it is actually a fake page which allows them to capture your login details and use them to do all sorts of fraudulent things.

Thankfully, I don’t have any financial information stored on Myspace, although my date of birth and address were on there, which left me wide open to identity theft. I’ll be keeping my beady eye on login pages from now on, that’s for sure…