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Dead giveaway: Deborah Vankin, an LA Times journalist, stumbled across her own obituary online, alongside other death announcements and tribute videos. Why? It’s a clickbait scam. “Obituary pirates” use AI to create believable yet bogus obits and memorials to rake in ad bucks. This scam is spreading like wildfire now.
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It happens every year. We need to file our taxes, and scammers come out to steal from us. Here’s what you need to know right now.
Every year, the IRS releases a list of scams to watch out for. These are the biggest ones for this year:
If your phone locks after 10 seconds (too fast) or 2 minutes (too long), change that. I recommend 30 seconds — it’s ju-u-u-st right.
In other words, it’s way too easy. Business Insider reported the listing (and others like it) to Meta, which took them down. A watchdog org says traffickers are “easily and openly operating on the platform.” It can’t be that hard to stop this stuff.
It was on a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary. The company said it’s paid out $2 billion in advances to providers while it rebuilds its payment claims systems. I’m not saying this wouldn’t have happened if they read this newsletter … but it probably wouldn’t have.
Used gas car values are down just 3.6%. Cue the party horn if you’re shopping for a used EV … and the sad trombone if you’re selling.
