The Truth About Identity Theft

Truth 28 Wireless access scams

You have just checked into a hotel while on a business trip. After getting settled, you decide to use the hotel’s wireless access to check your email and maybe get a little work done. You open your Web browser, and instead of connecting to your familiar home page, it instead connects to a Web page supplied by the hotel. The hotel offers Internet access for $12.99 per day. Since you plan to only be online for an hour or two, this seems pretty ridiculous. You click on your wireless icon again to see if you can locate another wireless network you can use. You scroll down the list and see an unsecured access point named “WiFly.” You select it, and within a few seconds you are connected.

You open a new Web browser ...