This is most important rule to protect your account!

Other financial services follow a policy similar to PayPal.

People may report to financial services unusual emails. The more they know about such incidents, better they can track them in order to find out some patterns about abusers.

If people feel uneasy about their accounts, they can check them through web browser. They should type in manually website address of financial service into their browser. They can check matters there safely. But they never may type their confidential information in a form that has been sent by email!

It’s recommendable to change password of electronic accounts from time to time.

By way: I do not use my email address of Pay Pal Account in any public statements. I use different email addresses there.

The origin of word Phishing

The new internet term Phishing origins probably from word Fishing. Phishing has been extracted from word combination “password harvesting fishing”.

Further background information

More background information about actual kinds of abuse is available at website http://www.scambusters.org It’s worthwhile to have a look what is going on in world wide web.

Or use a spam filter. However, none of programs available today work 100% correct. You have to bear in mind, that spam filter might delete some important messages. Well, my experience is, that if you use a filtering system you will probably clean up your Inbox as good as if you use a spam filtering software. But advantage is, you won't miss important emails.

What ever system you use, a filter in your email program, or a third-party spam filtering product, controlling unwanted emails is a must. And if even that is not working anymore, setup a new email address and share this one just with people very important to you. This will reduce flood of spam mails for a while.

3. Set aside "in depth" reading time. Asign times for in depth reading of articles and other information. At these times you could read your articles and do further researches. While reading articles, you could also do review which is mentioned in next paragraph.

4. Review stored information regularly Information has a short life. It is essential to review information you store regular, to keep information actual. All old and no more usefull information must be deleted or thrown away. If you don't review regular, you will see your folders mess up and your computer harddrive will get very full. No kidding, soon you will have thousands of files. When reviewing remember to review also bookmark in your favorite web-browser. You may save it for later reference. A review should be made at last every 6 month, at least once a year if information is for private use. Business owner should review every 3 to 6 month.

Conclusion It needs a structure and discipline to handle information overload we all are facing every day. If you don't follow your own rules for Information Management, you will be losing information game one day.

To win information game has little to do with time management, it's an issue of self organisation and discipline. While implementing and using above described solution you will see that things are changing to be more comfortabel for you. You might also find out that life of information is not really that short as most people think. Good Luck. ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------