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Sanity Check Number Seventeen:

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Do you refuse to answer personal questions from those ‘friends’ you are not 100% sure of?

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If you do stumble across a fake online profile, you might become suspicious. Fakers are generally out there to trawl for personal data and the questions they ask you are often a little unusual.

Examples we have seen include:

• “ What’s your email address?” • “ When’s your birthday?” • “ Where are you now?” • “ Can you suggest me to your friends?”

You can see a video about what it’s like to have your identity stolen here .

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Produced by The Risk Management Group 2012

Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012