Subject: shopwithscrip.com registration confirmation
From: <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:48:24 -0400

Dear Michael (Celeste) Bishop,

Username:  [email-masked]
Password:  marisa94

Welcome to shopwithscrip.com!  You are now a registered scrip program participant for this non-profit organization:

Organization:  New Covenant Christian - Lansing
Supervisor:  Carmen Fitch
Supervisor Email:  [email-masked]

As a register member, you can support your scrip program and place personal orders from any Internet connected computer.  In addition, you can review past orders, and get detailed information about participating retailers.

About Your Account
Remember, your email address is your username at shopwithscrip.com. Correspondence about your purchase activity and account management will be sent to this address.  We will never share your email address with other people or companies.

Since this account will be used for placing orders, we urge you to practice good password management with your shopwithscrip account.  That means choosing an easy-to-remember, but  'hard-to-guess' password, and not sharing your password carelessly with others.  At the conclusion of this message, we’ve included some great suggestions for creating a secure, convenient password.

If you are a member of multiple non-profit organizations (for instance an elementary school and a high school), you can use your shopwithscrip.com account to support several participating non-profits.  

Retailers
There are literally hundreds of participating retailers for you to choose from on shopwithscrip.com.  Visit our retailers page for detailed information about a specific retailer.  Since the entire retailer list is quite long, we suggest you use the handy drop-down boxes on the page to filter the retailer list by category, or use the alphabetical or name search tools.  In addition, you can print a complete list of retailers for handy reference.

Your First Order
Shopwithscrip.com is an order management system – you do not purchase scrip from shopwithscrip.com; you purchase scrip from your non-profit organization.  When you place your first order, you will be asked which non-profit organization will be the recipient of your order. 

Payment
All payment must be made to your non-profit organization directly, and not to shopwithscrip.com.  Your order will only be released to shopwithscrip.com after your organization scrip supervisor has indicated that payment has been received by your non-profit organization.

Customer Service Issues
Remember, shopwithscrip.com is an order management system.  If you have customer service issues about purchases you’ve made or are thinking of making, please contact your scrip program supervisor at the address shown above.

Thank you, and welcome to shopwithscrip.com!

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The Basics Of Secure Password Selection

1.	Make your password as long as possible. The longer it is, the more secure it is.  Shopwithscrip.com requires your password to be at least six characters – more is better.
2.	Use as many different characters as possible when forming your password. Use numbers, punctuation characters and, when possible, mixed upper and lower-case letters. Choosing characters from the largest possible alphabet will make your password more secure.
3.	Do not use personal information in your password that someone else is likely to be able to figure out. Obviously, things like your name, phone number, and address are to be avoided. Even names of acquaintances and the like should not be used. 
4.	Do not use words, geographical names, or biographical names that are listed in standard dictionaries. 
5.	Never use a password that is the same as your account number or username. 
6.	Do not use passwords that are easy to spot while you're typing them in. Passwords like 12345, qwerty (i.e., all keys right next to each other), or nnnnnn should be avoided.

Try This If You're Having Difficulty Selecting a Good Password

If you are having difficulty picking a good password, one good method is to use the first letter of each word in a phrase you can easily remember. For example, 'Alta is my kind of place' would be Aimkop. Another method is to intentionally use misspelled words, or words with a number or punctuation mark suffixed. Examples include: braekfast, kite276, and weather. (the period at the end is part of the password). Also, many hackers use numbers or punctuation instead of letters to do a basic encrypt of text, as in: h3llo is hello or he!!o is also hello. Don't copy any of these examples, but y0u g3t the d4ift! The more creative you are the better.