“Who Would Even Fall For This?”: 15 Questions To Reveal If You Are Easy To Scam

Only a couple of weeks ago there was a story of someone who got scammed twice by someone claiming to be Keanu Reeves. It still happens. Perhaps 20-25 years ago, in the early days of email for many, it was worse - I see old issues of Judge Judy where people who don't have bank accounts (why on earth not?) got cashed cheques, by other people, that turned out to be bogus - from Nigerian investments and, most absurdly, from the Spanish lottery. I suspect there are still people dumb, greedy and naïve enough to believe that you can win a lottery without buying a ticket.

About ten years ago, I was standing in line at the VA and a fellow in front of me was scaring me. He’d just gotten out of jail and was antsy standing in line because he had emails telling him to pick up his free laptop, TV, PlayStation, iPhone, and pretty much every other scam available, and he didn’t wanna be waiting in line with all these goodies waiting for him! It made me realize people in jail are sooo cut off from society and technology flies by so that they have NO clue what’s going on out here!

1. Have a "shadow" email account that you NEVER use anywhere else that gives you access to all your accounts AND all your emails are forwarded to them. In case of unauthorized access, you can log into THAT and send emails from any compromised account. 2. Your password should be a 1. meaningful phrase (in another language) 2. Date of Setup/Password update 3. Variable (should be) unique to the site as in function or 3rd letter, etc. Your hint (which you can save in a file labelled PASSWORDS is this: SAME/1125/VARIABLE so for your bank it's "JeNeRegretteRien1125B. Easy to know; hard to guess. Everyone's going to regret going "passwordless" because Big Tech protects NO ONE. Whatever they're setting up, hackers already are finding a way to foil. Human ingenuity is the ONLY WEAPON, but notice I said "HUMAN INGENUITY". Human STUPIDITY is the worst. Be ingenious.

Are It Dpto still installs new laptops with admin privileges........... No need to enter admin to isntall stuff. 🤦

Yeah, like how I connect to public wifi or download an app. I just don't do those things.

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Right? And when I have to answer security questions like "What was your 1st pet's name?" I use colors, numbers, the names of lake, mountains, vegetables, animals, etc.

Prison wallet?