Not much new here, but it was on "Good Morning America."
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-fake-credit-card-readers-look-real-how-avoid-skimmers-2023-7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3PfUjWmLFg
Of course, we all want to know when crooks like that are in our neighborhood. (I remember when such skimmers were attached to ATMs...right inside the local banks!)
But I'm (somewhat) amazed - in a bad way - when it comes to their tips on avoiding becoming a victim. That is, no one suggests the obvious move - that customers should switch to using cash as often as possible. (After all, customers would spend far less
if they took that advice.) Even so, that's precisely what I do. As Jim Cramer said: "paying cash HURTS! All the more reason to use it!"
And yet...sorry to be lurid, but when a woman gets raped by a man she knows, you just know there will be a least a few people thinking, smugly: "A woman should never allow even a man she's known for years to be alone with her, since most men are just
waiting to rape someone - how could SHE be so stupid? Why don't women take every precaution they can?"
Why the difference, I'd love to know? Why do some people still think that coming and going in society is a privilege for women, not a right?
As I mentioned elsewhere, when it comes to drunk drivers and their victims, you don't see cops going on the local news before a holiday weekend to tell SOBER people to stay off the roads - instead, the cops have the sense to warn DRINKERS to control
their own behavior - or else!
(That may sound at odds with what I said before, but aside from the fact that drunk drivers don't mean to hurt anyone and so have to be reminded over and over as to what not to do, I think everyone should admit that the right to exist in public as a law-
abiding citizen instead of locking yourself up is even MORE important than the right to carry your credit card everywhere. I don't even like carrying it, because of those devices that thieves point at your pocket without even touching you - does anyone
know what they're called?)
More on how thieves operate:
https://www.aura.com/learn/how-do-people-steal-credit-card-numbers
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