So I just read a pro tip about not taking online personality quizzes because they will be sold to people who might not have your best interest at heart such as marketing agencies (makes sense) and hackers. I just can’t imagine anything a hacker really could do with that. Or would want to?
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Say an older, single, lonely lady. Say someone got all the info on her favorite flowers, perfect first date, and so forth. They could use this info to catfish this lady, convince her the hacker that she’s found Prince Charming, he just needs $600 ASAP. (And men could be just a susceptible)
A lot of the time, at least on fb, these quizzes ask for access to your profile. So now they have info of all these single, older people, and all of their favorite things. From there it’s just shotgunning messages out there and seeing who bites. Patricia Smith? Oh yes I prefer mountains to the beach wow what a coincidence that we have all this in common we must be soul mates. It’s the perfect mark because people’s logic centers seem to shut down when they get feelings, and they’ll be too ashamed of getting scammed (and heartbroken) to pursue charges.
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