When wives suspect!
Nothing in the world is the hardest to uncover. At least that is my opinion on this because the Husband will do almost anything to hide an affair. So what is the wife going to do. I don’t know about the everyone else but I had an interesting experience the other day and I want to discuss this in detail about what happened.
Once a Cheater always a Cheater!
This is something of a personal belief but back to the story, I found a profile on a few of the dating sites and I thought it was strange. I knew she was married and everything. So I wanted to contact her and try to find out for sure. I posted about it on my blog as a way to hopefully draw out the impersonator and try to determine just what the intent was. It never really happened because the person involved didn’t feel the need to Google their name. Probably because that was somewhat of a fake last name. So that didn’t pan out like I had hoped. So I found her at a local community gathering. I help direct the technical stuff for a local church. So I just waited to bump into her. That day came and I told her about her profiles on the few dating sites. She was confused and a little worried someone might of had her credit cards and her personal information. I started to do my research and she does her research.
Wasn’t a Stranger doing the impersonating!
So she gets back with me and tells me what she found out. It was her Sister who has a hubby who has cheated on her in the past. Seems she wanted to use those accounts to spy on her hubby and see if she could find him on any dating sites. So she tells her sister to remove those accounts but wasn’t really happy with her about not asking her. That ends the story but it is never really over.
Even though it was a family member, most people would still worry about how the pictures and information got out. I already thought of that, she used her Facebook information even though the security part of it wouldn’t of helped. It was a friend or family and thus the photo’s would of still been viewable and download able to the persons computer.
Things you can do to prevent this!
Some of the common problems people don’t do are stuff that if you did this it wouldn’t of happened. So I am going to lay out some things you can do to fight people from stealing your identity and impersonating you.
- Setup Email Alerts — This is something simple but set up a Email alert with your Name and if anything happens to appear you should be notified once a day. This will help keep your identity from being stolen on the internet.
- Check your Facebook Settings — This is something I recommend to all my friends and family. Keep track of who sees what and what information is given out on your social networks. Make sure only the important information is given out to the people who need that, not to strangers.
- Remove the Exif Tags from Photos — if you plan to upload photos to any social site it is best practice to make sure people can’t track or know where you’ve been. It can also be a security issue for some. So removing it will help reduce your risk of identity theft.
There are more than these three but this will at least point you in the right direction to start preventing people from taking your identity and using it for their own means. If you know other ways to fight identity theft then please feel free to leave a comment. I’d love to hear what you have to say on the subject.
Paul Sylvester
