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Originally Posted by Huggles
We hired a guy recently to repair our screen window that got damaged by our cat...
While he was repairing it, we were just shooting the shit and I mentioned how my father-in-law had his shit hacked by connecting to, what he thought was, the casino's wifi... and somehow he got his bank account drained of a few grand and some other shit, but it got cleared up fast. He still lost like the 3-4 grand cash he had in his account, but everything else was reversed.
In 2026... lock your shit down. It is so important to keep up on this because criminals are studying every day new ways of fucking you over. The guy doing our screens told me that he heard that people are pulling up to open houses and opening an open WIFI portal called like "OPEN HOUSE" and then everyone thinks the open WIFI is for the open house, connect through it, and because it is at an open house, people often open their banking info and call people and play on their phones because home shopping is a thing that can take awhile and people hang out and take pics... so then someone parked outside runs the open WIFI and steals people's shit...
There are so many scams out there these days, it's off the chain!  |
Oh boy, I know. I locked down my social security number, my credit accounts, banks, Paypal, anything and everything I could find to lock down. Paypal fixed my shit after the fits I told them. I sent them proof I filed reports with the police, FTC. So THAT part is finally fixed. It was only $400 which to some isn't that bad, but when it's all you got and they do that shit, it was so bad. I had just paid all my bills.
My favorite is when people get on social media and announce that they are leaving for a 2 week vacation...... DUH!! Stupid ass!! Then they wonder why all their shit is gone when they get home. Thinking Facebook is private.
NOTHING is private anymore!