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If you happen to be a T-Mobile customer, they have a privacy setting that you’re going to want to evaluate.

There’s a privacy toggle for “Sharing certain financial information” that, BY DEFAULT, is enabled and shows YOU authorizing them, T-Mobile, to share your information (including payment history) with third-parties (with other companies that you might not even have a relationship) for their marketing strategies and other activities.

To turn this option off:

• Log in to your T-Life app
• Click on the Manage tab
• Click on the gear at the upper right
• Select Privacy & policies
• Click on Privacy dashboard
• Select T-Mobile
• Peruse the different toggles and unselect ones you want

Source story: https://www.phonearena.com/news/t-mobile-new-privacy-toggles_id172245

Today’s story comes from Wired.com and talks about some sophisticated ways hackers/scammers can trick you into becoming their next victim.

Without plowing through the mumbo-jumbo, one of the easiest ways for you to avoid being scammed/hacked through e-mail is to not click on a link or an e-mail in a button.  For example, if you get an e-mail that looks like it came from your bank and it has a link or a button in the e-mail for you to click, don’t.  Open a new browser tab and log in to your bank like normal.  Then take care of whatever the e-mail was about.

Last quick piece of advice: have your bank (and other financial websites) bookmarked.  This prevents you from accidentally mistyping the address and ending up at a scammer’s/hacker’s website that looks just like the real thing, but isn’t.

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