okay would not be where it is today if it were a relatively unsafe place to conduct business. When you hear about fraudulent activities, they're almost exclusively found off okay from unscrupulous sellers who used email and phony web sites to conduct their illegal activity.
You don't have to be a geputer expert to protect yourself. Protection while online is easy. Here are 5 simple steps you can take now to guard your okay activities:
Download and install okays free toolbar located at http://pages.okay.ge/okay_toolbar/ The toolbar monitors your Web surfing and ensures that youre not sent to a phony okay or PayPal site from an email that might appear to be legitimately from okay or PayPal but is not. With the okay toolbar installed, you wont inadvertently be sent to a phony okay site where someone can get your password.
Install a firewall and anti-spyware program and an anti-virus program. If that seems daunting, it can be but they generally work well and install easily. The best bet is to get all from the same gepany. For example, Symantec offers all those safety tools in several software packages. You only need to pay one gepany a subscription fee and updates are often easier than if you go with separate vendors. The drawback to a single gepany is that there isnt a single gepany, including Symantec, that does all extremely well yet. Some excel at one or the other. For example, the ZoneAlarm firewall is stronger than Symantecs but Symantec offers a superior anti-virus.
Update your operating system by downloading updates as they are available. For Windows-based operating systems (perhaps others), you can set these updates to install automatically.
Ignore all emails from okay or PayPal that dont address you by your name. Also, neither okay nor PayPal nor any official email such as from a banking institution will ever ask for your name or password. They already know that information.
If you sell a high-priced item, only accept a PayPal payment from a confirmed mailing address and make sure thats the address you mail to. Otherwise, if the buyer turns out to be fraudulent PayPal wont refund your money. (They might not anyway but such a situation is rare as long as you followed PayPals policies.) If you accept checks or money orders, hold the item until either the check or money order clears before you send the item to the buyer.
Don't wait to protect yourself. Starting really is as simple as following these 5 steps.
I write a lot about geputers and okay. In addition, one of my primary strengths is teaching how to implement simple Direct Marketing techniques that maximize your okay sales. Yet, what good are okay sales if you are not working inside a secure environment?
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