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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 ...

When the Customer Is Not a Task, but a Challenge: Surviving Toxic Freelance Relationships How to spot the red flags before you go crazy and turn professional chaos into a brilliant story I continue to make juice from the lemons that life throws at me: another inadequate client inspired me to write this article! And thanks for that! I think that every freelancer has received an order from a client who makes you want to cry or bang your head against the wall. However, I prefer to make stories out of it. On the one hand, it is useful from a psychological point of view — to let off steam, at least not on paper, but on the page. On the other hand, perhaps in this story you will recognize yourself and feel that you are not alone in this professional problem . Preview image created with  Gemini AI Although most clients are very nice people, some are aggressive and inadequate. This case is a perfect example of how psychology helps in the freelance market . A bad start I saw an ...

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...

Confessions of a “Wrong Boss”: Why Empathy Is Often Mistaken for Weakness in Toxic Cultures How to survive a workplace built on fear, decode narcissistic management, and choose yourself when the system tries to break you The movie “ The Internship ” (starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) was my starting point. Anyone who has seen this comedy remembers that they tried to get a job at an IT company without any skills in this field. I was very impressed by this movie, but at the time, I knew almost nothing about tech careers . Rumors were spreading everywhere that they paid well. I decided to change my life, unaware that I was heading into a toxic work environment that would test my emotional intelligence to the limit. Entering the world of  IT and digital marketing  —  Photo by  Greg Bulla  on  Unsplash Beginning Like the heroes of that movie, I came to IT with no experience — only with faith that I could handle it. I started looking for a job, a...

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...