The number one media concern for parents has shifted from television to Internet, with 85% of parents saying that it posed the greatest risk to their children among all forms of media. (www.netlingo.com)
We now live in a world where anything and everything is available at the touch of a button. The Internet phenomenon has made copious amounts of information available to anyone, and has also given the word communication a whole new meaning. People can run their businesses from their laptop in a café, find their long lost relatives, post any information they want, but most scarily they can hide their identity, or even create a new one.
When our children are online, they are exposed to all the information and communication programs (chat rooms) available on the Internet. However, with all this possibility at their fingertips comes great risk.
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Online shopping is a fantastic way to save both time and money. All at the click of a mouse. But with that convenience we are often opened up to potentially expensive exposure to fraud.
A friend of mine recently travelled to London. On arrival from Australia he went to pick up his previously booked hire car. The attendant asked him, ‘Which car do you want?’ My friend responded, ‘What do you mean which one?’ ‘Well you’ve two cars booked with two credit cards under your name.’ My friend suddenly realised that an old credit card, that had been used fraudulently in a number of other European nations months before, had once again resurfaced, and was being used at the same airport, on the very same day for the very same purpose of hiring a car. The chances of this happening were millions upon millions to one. So whoever had used his old credit card that day was in for an almighty shock when they were met by the police later that morning.
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In a recent article featured in ‘The Courier Mail’ it is reported that stealing identities is one of the fastest growing crimes in Australia.
It is estimated that Australians lose up to $3.5 billion a year to identity thieves as they clear out bank accounts and leave a trail of destruction whenever they strike.
