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This quiz is dumb af. The two that weren't scams didn't give you enough info to identify if they aren't and they both just as likely to be scams? And at the end they said it was still possible for me to get scammed even though I called every single item a scam. How am i gonna get scammed if i assume they are all scams?
Exactly. There was no context.
Did the person actually sign up for GeekSquad AV? They didn't say.
Does the person actually have a Facebook account? They didn't say.
Plus I always assume anything that references Facebook in an email is a scam.
It's never a bad thing to be overly cautious when it comes to this stuff
If you take the quiz it all you don't get a 100%. That's the real test.
That doesn't make sense. Don't trust Washington post either? Got it.
It was a joke but no, I don't trust a news organization owned by Jeff Bezos.
Honestly, I did pretty well (except the last one which I had no way of knowing was a legitimate web site -- and what the hell kind of name is that for a legitimate site anyway? But I digress...), but I would have taken steps to verify every single one of these before taking any further action. I just inherently distrust email and SMS messages.
Because presumably you still interact with society as opposed to going full unibomber, and so you can't do that.
They were
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a real bank statement and a real settlement.The article and quiz talk specifically about these types of vectors for scams. If i assume they are all scams there is a zero % chance i get scanned in this way. Even on the two not a scams they talked about better alternatives to ensure their authenticity which i would have done as soon as i saw any of these "scams" its just a poorly written article that just assumes any wrong answers mean you are more likely to be scammed. I understand there is no way to 100% avoid being scams especially if you just out in the world but the answer from the article is dumb.
Edit: also the censored info made it impossible to tell if it was real.
I actually did search the second one to confirm it's real, and the first is from a domain I know. I've gotten messages like the first, if I assumed they were all scams that would probably backfire.
That's probably the point of this. If you ace it, it calls you paranoid and then tells you you can still get scammed.