Be cautious when accepting friend requests on social media networks.  If you take a good look at your friends list, you’ll find that you don’t personally know everyone on that list.  Accepting friend requests from criminals is fairly easy to do.  In addition, it only takes one friend’s carelessness with who is added as a friend to get to your online identity.

The simplest of details, your birthday, phone number, geographical location, and emails, can help a hacker unlock the “account recovery” features of other online accounts.  This could lead to gaining access of your bank account, credit cards, and other online identities.