How paranoid are you?

[Booldawg]

This kind of follows on from my phone thread. JJ mentioned about an iphone app that can trace where you are.

I'm the kind of person who draws cash out of the cashpoint machine and pays for everything in cash. I once read the 2 most likely places you will get your card scammed is a petrol station or restaurant.

Even when I use the cashpoint machine I hold my wallet over the keypad just in case there is one of those camera things they use to grab your pin.

I dont like buying things online. But when I do, I'll never use the laptop at home because I dont trust the level of security. At work we're firewalled behind a military network so I prefer to use that method.

I'd never entertain the idea of keeping a wallet in back pocket.

Does anyone else put little 'security measures' in their life to try and make things safer?

[ChuckFickens]

"At work we're firewalled behind a military network so I prefer to use that method."

I am at home :)

[Booldawg]

lol chuck, are you suggesting its not as safe as I thought? I was happy in my blissful ignorance!

[Davethedog]

Remember Booldawg Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

I do the cashpoint machine thing, even in a bank. Never a wallet in the back pocket

[China Doll]

Not particularly.

[starone]

That's a bit OTT Booldawg, although I do understand because my husband was like you. He paid for everything with cash and once a month we went to the bank and drew out all his pension money. When he died there was £10,000 in the house. My daughter threw a fit and transferred it to her safe. All gone now and I pay for almost everything with cards although there are a few things you cannot do without actual money.

[andy-hughes]

I nevetr carry my wallet in my back pocket.

My passwords is not traceable by birth date, address etc.

I do keep my eyes open when keying in my PIN.

I never use on-line banking.

However, I am in converstion with a lovely Nigerian man who is going to give me a percentatge of a massive cheque I am clearing for him through my bank account ... who says there are no nice people left in the world?

[Booldawg]

I think there will come a time when cash is 'no longer king' Probably be obsolete.

I suppose being behind a safe network is ok but at some point the purchase has to go to the vendors website and the transaction will be out in the open. Thats when its unsafe?

[joggerjayne]

Buy a pre-payment "credit" card for inline purchases.

If your details are compromised, the most that you risk is the amount you've paid onto the card.

If that happened, you'd just bin the card and buy a new one.

[Prudie]

If I thought about it I might worry more but I don't.
I'm also behind a military firewall at work- may be we know each other doo-doo-doo-doo :-)

[Booldawg]

haha Prudie. The red badger is in the hole. Swan has flown. Breaks my heart. Over and out!

[RATTER15]

I'm just careless, I don't lock cars ( someone did get into my car once and stole my gear knob) at my last address we never locked our front or back door in 14 years even when going on holiday, I have a wallet in my back pocket and if anybody wants my bank details they can have them, they may feel sorry for and pay money in.

[Booldawg]

LOL Ratter. Looking at the dog in your avatar I dont think theres much need to lock back doors! (damn! another 'back door' reference -sorry!)

[pa___ul3]

I think pinki gets the prize for the most open about their pin number.. in the world.. ever!!
I'm not paranoid at all, I just go with the flow, although when we were in Barcelona last year, I'd always make sure I stood on the side of my gf's bag and, holding her hand, I'd have my little finger over the top of the bag so's I'd feel if anything was going on.
When I lived there a Swedish friend of mine got mugged in El Born area (thin windy streets) and the mugger legged it, little did he know that 6ft Jenny was a marathon runner and quickly caught him, pinned him against the wall, got her bag back and an extra €5 off the mugger for the hassle!! Legendary!!

[MarkRae]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LPRaiu0Y8M

People even announce that it's their birthday on here!!! Identity theft is scarily easy, and knowing someone's date of birth is one of the most useful pieces of information for that...

People still throw their bank statements and credit card bills into the bin when a shredder can be bought so cheaply these days.

[MarkRae]

I have one of these: http://www.argos.co.u...chtext%3ESHREDDER.htm

It also shreds credit cards.

[painterman32]

Many years ago my wife bought me a little 'pocket safe' from one of those small newspaper ads, it's just under 1/2 an inch thick and about 4 inches long, with a roll-barrel lock at the top - you have to line up the four numbers you've chosen to open it else if you get it wrong a red dye squirts over the cards inside and melds them together rendering them useless. It's been to Morrocco, Egypt, Albania, Turkey and Tunisia with me and never let me down yet!