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The Scammer Wanted Me to Send Him $1450 Or…

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Turning Scammer Blackmail into Content: My Experience with Job Search Fraud Exposing the "overdue payment" and webcam blackmail tactics used by modern cybercriminals. Photo by  Zanyar Ibrahim  on  Unsplash Sometimes job searches turn into funny messages from scammers. Perhaps, when people first started using the Internet and received such letters, they believed in them and fulfilled all the requirements. And what do I do? I make articles from such messages. Fraudsters often buy email databases, far from inventing protection against this. I found the letter by accident when I accidentally clicked on the spam folder. I usually never open it. The letter was long, so pour yourself some tea or coffee, grab some delicious cookies, and get ready to read. Cat is drinking tea GIF The title caught my attention because it was not a standard advertising mailing; it was immediately clear that it was a scam: There is an overdue payment under your name. Please, settle your ...

“Everything You Say, I’ll Use It Against You in Court.” — GPTChat

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ChatGPT Privacy Alert: Is Your Private Conversation Truly Secure? How to disable data training, protect your personal information, and why AI is not your psychologist GPTChat is probably not used only by the lazy. It helps someone with their work, and sometimes even enables them to cope with it successfully. Some have found a best friend in it, some fall in love with avatars and leave their spouses, and other uses it as a coach, mentor, or teacher. Especially lonely people turn to it as a psychologist or even a lawyer. Photo by Saúl Bucio on Unsplash But it turns out that you can’t trust it at all. Correspondence is stored for 30 days. If some services need extra information, they can ask the company, and the company will have to provide it. Even those chats that you deleted manually… For example, a person tells an AI about their health problems, and this information might reach insurers, who could then refuse to insure them. Or a person discloses their financial or i...

Minimalism Broke My Heart: Why My Pursuit of Less Left Me Feeling Empty

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Why is minimalism not always the right choice? The truth about forced simplicity I was the girl who had 6 types of candles and a supply of festive pajamas in her drawer at home. Now I have a notebook and a curtain instead of a blanket; why is minimalism not always the right choice? Photo by Harold Wijnholds on Unsplash Why did this happen, and does it make me happy? Many people chant down on consumerism! But I am a wild shopaholic, only without ten credit cards like in the movie of the same name. When I worked, I bought myself things that made me happy. It wasn’t something cheap or of poor quality that breaks in a week, no. I had a large wardrobe, a large shoe collection. Well, in terms of the ratio of my salary to the number of shoes, of course, I won’t catch up with Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, but still. I bought things for the comfort of home: candles, diffusers, blankets, beautiful containers for organizing storage, cute dishes, and my special p...