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The verification code SCAM

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  There has been a lot of recent news about cyber-attacks. Scammers, hackers, and other cyber-criminals attack corporations and cause huge losses of millions every day. Data breaches leave the personal information of a huge number of users exposed. Individuals suffer from identity theft. All of these are proof enough of how important security is for any website. While the people who make these attempts seem like they use state-of-the-art methods to execute them, most of the time they only need to target the weakest links in a corporation. In most cases, the weakest link of a system is the human component. People can be manipulated, bribed, or blackmailed into giving away important information. The oldest trick in the scammer's book is to fool the victim into giving away important information. This is known as phishing and it is a threat as old as the internet. While phishing is an extensive subject, today's article focuses on a modern approach. This is called the verificati...

What is PayPal?

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  In modern times, the internet has been adapted and used for everything. One of the best examples of this is digital wallets. With these services, one can send and receive payments without any problem whatsoever over the internet. One of the earliest and most popular of these services is PayPal. Initially launched in 1999 by the American Silicon Valley company Confinity, PayPal started off as a simple digital wallet that was adopted by eBay to grow its user base. During the last decade, PayPal implemented new features like micro-payments and mobile payments. It also started its expansion into other countries, with an emphasis on small and medium businesses. In 2014, it was announced that PayPal would become its own company independent of eBay. Today, PayPal is widely used as a payment processor for e-commerce websites, auctions, as a payment option in Google Play, charities, and many more commercial applications. PayPal has around 375 million active accounts from all over the...

Are VoIP and robocalls bad?

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Modern life has brought to us millions of advantages. However, as it happens with everything, there is a list of ups and downs in all of these developments. Although the good ones dominate and overshadow the bad ones, in most cases, some of them stand out. This is the circumstance with robocalls . Robocalls are becoming a very frequent practice around the world. If the situation is seen objectively, this does not imply anything negative in the first place, since some of them can be considered useful and even beneficial. The real problem with robocalls is that a considerable and growing proportion of them are turning into calls that would lead to scams. One of the most notorious quality of robocalls is their diversity. There are many types of robocalls: some of them are helpful, some are just annoying and others are dangerous. The users need to be able to identify with which type of robocalls they are dealing with when they receive one. But first of all, let’s define what a robo...

Amazon Prime Video or Netflix?

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People are living in the era of streaming services. Now, more than ever, viewers have a ton of places to watch all their favorite tv shows and movies, and with live TV streaming, they can also get all the content that cable TV offers, but with the benefits and convenience of on-demand streaming. With more than 203 million subscribers, Netflix is one of the most popular streaming services worldwide. On the other hand, Amazon Prime has more than 150 million subscribers, also worldwide.    Let’s discuss both services Both Netflix and Amazon Prime are two powerhouses of online streaming and, depending on a ton of different factors, let’s talk about some of the benefits and differences between them both, to make it easier for you to decide which one you prefer. Both of these services contain and also produce a big number of TV shows and movies, so it is possible that between them, you can watch almost anything you want. But if you prefer or need to pick just one of them, l...

Bitcoins and Crypto.com

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Some people could argue that Bitcoin is the currency of the future. Although it was originally designed to be just a payment method, every day, more and more people from all around the world have come to see this relatively new currency as an investment category. In the last few years, cryptocurrencies have become more and more popular and far more accessible for everyone. And some of the top cryptocurrency trading apps have made the process of selling and buying cryptocurrencies much easier and friendlier for their users. Crypto.com makes cryptocurrency investing easier and, because of that, by January of 2021, it had more than 106 million users. Let’s back up a little and talk about Bitcoin So, what is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital currency, and what this means is that it is a form of electronic money, residing in your computer or even your mobile device, so you cannot actually have physical Bitcoins in your wallet or your pocket. Nowadays, everything you buy has to go through a...