Keep Your Email Account Safe from Hackers

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When you ask people to enumerate their most crucial internet accounts, the majority of people will undoubtedly rank their banking and other financial accounts highest on the list for apparent reasons.

Additionally, there's a significant chance that their email address will appear well down the list, most likely after their social networking and streaming video accounts.

But well, what do you know? Almost everything else should be ranked lower than your email account.

Why? Since so many different kinds of accounts rely on your email address as their skeleton key.

Give this some thought for a minute.

You click a "Forgot password?" link, or anything similar when you can't remember your account password, isn't that right?

And what is it that they nearly invariably want at the start of the password reset procedure?

Yes, exactly! Your Email Address

You will receive an email with a link to reset your password as soon as you input the email address linked to that account.

The problem is, any hacker who succeeds to gain access to your email account might do the same if they were able to reset the passwords to any other significant accounts using your email address.

Taking precautions to guarantee that your email account is safe from hacking attempts is crucial for this reason. Here are some helpful hints:

1. Select a strong yet simple password for your email account.

2. Always remember not to provide that password to someone you wouldn't trust with your house key or your ATM card.

3. Enable Your Gmail Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) on your account if your email provider allows it (most of them do these days).

4. You should give switching to an email service that supports 2FA significant consideration if your current one does not.

5. Refrain from falling for phishing scams that are designed to fool you into sending them the password to your email account.

6. Avoid entering your email password on a phony Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, or other email provider login screen. Always go straight to their login page from a reliable URL, then log in with that information.

That covers it very well. You may safeguard all of your other significant accounts by taking all reasonable steps to prevent hackers from accessing your email account.