General Safety Tips
Throughout this process you will visit several websites and make several accounts. In order to keep yourself safe, there are severals things that I recommend doing. First, do not do this on a public computer or public wifi network (such as in a restaurant). You do not know what private information you are revealing by using a public gateway. Next, when going to a website, be sure that the URL is exactly the one you are looking for; there are many scammers who have very similar domains to the real ones who will steal your information.