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Common Holiday Scams and How to Avoid Them

Identity IQ

While these products may look authentic, they are often ploys designed to trick you into revealing your payment information. Too-good-to-be-true offers: Unrealistically attractive deals are rarely authentic, if ever. Check for HTTPS encryption, read customer reviews, and consult trusted sources like the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

That type of information can be extremely valuable for things like identity theft.”. At the very least, there should have been some form of multi-factor authentication or password vault to protect the [server] account. Kulkarni even suggested the footage could be enough to develop “deep-fakes that could impersonate you.”.