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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, December 8, 2023
• My #1 tip for protecting your sensitive info from scammers
• How to shop at Amazon and pay cash (no card required)
• How to quickly check your blog for viruses and malicious code
• The life best lived, is your own.
• My Monthly Tech Giveaway is back – Brother DCPL2550DW Multifunction Laser Printer
If you use Facebook, you have surely seen tons of “feel good posts” pop up in your newsfeed. And if you’re like most people, you probably “Like” and “Share” some of them.
I used to Like and Share them too, back before I learned how dangerous they can be.
“Feel good posts” typically consist of a cute photo (often of a puppy, a kitten or a child) looking all lovable and cuddly. The photo will usually have some text on it that makes it almost impossible not to like or share the post.
Here’s an example of a typical “feel good post”: [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, November 13, 2023
• Use a PC while someone is sleeping in the same room? Try this.
• Scam alert: Beware this dangerous cell phone scam
• Q&A: How do I keep the searches I do on my iPhone off my PC?
• Video: The 10 tallest snowfalls ever recorded
• My Monthly Tech Giveaway is back – Brother DCPL2550DW Multifunction Laser Printer
Substack…
By now you probably know that Facebook accounts are getting cloned by scammers right and left these days.
Luckily, having a scammer clone your account isn’t as bad as having someone hack into it, but it’s still bad – especially for the people on your friends list.
In case you’re unfamiliar with account cloning, it’s where a scammer creates a completely new Facebook account in your name and populates it with photos and personal information they’ve copied from your real account.
They then use the new fake account to send friend requests to all the people on your real account’s friends list. [Read more…]
Question from Liz: I recently found out that everyone who looks at my Facebook can see my profile picture.
I don’t like that because I don’t want all the stalkers and scammers that are on Facebook to be able to see any of my pictures.
Lord only knows what they could do with it if they ever managed to steal one of them.
I finally got my settings changed to where it hides my posts and the rest of my pictures from strangers, but my profile picture is always visible even with its privacy set to “Only Me”.
How can I make it so that only the people who are actually friends with me on Facebook can see my profile picture? [Read more…]