eli5 what can scammers even do when they get your IP address?
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Nothing, really. It’s a bit of a myth that your IP address is somehow secret information you need to protect.
In reality, you IP address is something you send to *every website you visit* because you need that website you talk directly to you. And if you don’t give them your address they can’t…do that.
At best a scammer can use to it figure out where you are/who you are and maybe try and target you for specific scams. But that’s not really how they operate, there is no reason to put in the work to target a specific person.
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