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Stay Safe Out There - HumbleDollar https://humbledollar.com/2024/09/stay-safe-out-there/
How can you protect yourself from bad actors? For starters, employ all technical means available. Use a password manager to generate very long passwords. Turn on two-factor authentication, ideally using an authenticator app rather than text messages. For sites that offer passkeys—an advance over traditional usernames and passwords—I favor using this option.
HumbleDollar · Stay Safe Out There - HumbleDollarSOME YEARS AGO, an elderly neighbor came to our door, asking for a favor. She was looking for packing tape because she’d sold her television and needed to ship it. She went on to say that the buyer, who she’d found on eBay, was in Nigeria. It was, of course, an obvious scam. But for whatever reason, she couldn’t see it. Today, scams like this are better known and easier to recognize. But what makes online fraud such a problem is that the crooks are always developing new tricks.