Covid Online Scams: Why Fraudsters Want You to Tweet Your First Celebrity Crush – Bloomberg
Fraudsters have all kinds of tactics to get you to disclose personal information. Don’t fall for them.
Don’t do it.
If you’re ever on Twitter or Facebook, there’s a chance you’ve seen prompts like: Date yourself with a picture of your first celebrity crush. Tell me your hilarious porn-star name with the name of your first pet and the street you grew up on. Or: Find your medieval name using the date and month of your birth.
Harmless fun, right? Except you’ve possibly given away passwords, answers to security questions and clues to your age, where you live and maybe some of your interests — all great leads for fraudsters trawling the web for information to help them crack credit card accounts or fool people into handing over money.
