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The reality of being targeted by scammers daily
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Seemingly every facet of daily life now comes with its attendant scam – even death, when details in online obituaries result in identity theft.
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You open your eyes and grope for your phone. You check your inbox and discover dozens of spam e-mail that made it past the filter.
Tapping over to Instagram, you find a request for a supposed brand collaboration in your DMs. Your WhatsApp notifications, meanwhile, consist solely of strangers asking you to invest in a cryptocurrency exchange.
