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Month: August 2023

Cybercrime / Privacy

A warning from historians: AI is going to create a lot of ‘sh*& jobs’

August 28, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

We’ve all had the maddening experience of being shuttled off to a mindless chatbot when we need real customer service help. Few things can raise your blood pressure like a nonsensical automated response designed as a stall tactic when you have a real crisis on your hands. I hope you [Keep reading]

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2023 is the summer of the mega concert (and mega ticket scams)

August 23, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

This is the summer of the blockbuster concert, and why not: Music fans have years of pent-up Covid frustration that they are ready to release.  Sold-out shows by megastars like Taylor Swift are the perfect venue to release all that energy.  Unfortunately, all this pent-up demand has created the perfect [Keep reading]

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Old-fashioned check fraud is back, this time with violent attacks on mail carriers

August 10, 2023 Bob Sullivan 0

Everything old is new again. There was a time when my parents taught me to be extremely careful with personal checks — never to leave open space in the amount fields, lest someone add a zero, for example.  Over the past several years, check writing has fallen deeply out of [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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