Emails hold valuable details pertaining to personal information, business transactions, bank statement and even family and private pictures which are in no way meant for strangers. Hence emails now hold huge importance in peoples lives. Many websites require email addresses to be used as usernames, if a person loses his password, the website gives the option to reset the password by going into the mail. If a fraudster or a criminal finds this password, he can use it to get access to as many other accounts as he wants if he gets access to you mail.

The main reason for people getting their email hacked is because they do not know how to protect their email addresses. It is not because of hacking that most people lose their accounts, but because of trapping. People are fooled into giving up their passwords themselves to hackers. One of the main methods of doing this is by spoofing a website that misleads the user to give up important details regarding the passwords by creating fake log in pages. These pages are just like the original design but differ in one fact that they copy your passwords. They might even lead to the genuine site alter, which lets the user never know that he just gave his username and password to hackers. Hence remember to keep in mind to never enter into your email address from other sites. Instead of doings so, you can go to the site directly by typing in the email address. Another method is by using key loggers that memorizing every thing that you enter into the computer. Key loggers is the easiest method of stealing passwords that is employed in public computers and such. Another huge mistake people do is to use passwords such as “123456″, “password” and many such common passwords that can be easily found out by hackers.