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5 Cara Mengamankan Akun Gmail Dari Serangan Hacker

Pastinet – Kejahatan dunia maya masih sering terjadi. Salah satunya adalah peretasan akun Google Mail (Gmail). Gmail sendiri biasanya digunakan oleh pengguna untuk berbagai keperluan. Tidak hanya digunakan untuk surat elektronik biasa, pengguna juga kerap menggunakan Gmail untuk masuk ke berbagai aplikasi, termasuk media sosial dan layanan perbankan. Maka dari itu, penting bagi pengguna untuk…

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Trump’s National Security Officials used personal Gmail accounts for government communications

[schrodingersjigsaw]

I think in light of recent events it’s important for everyone to move away from google and Microsoft ecosystems. I suspect the next 4 years are going to be rampant with big corps being allowed to do whatever the fuck they want, and as your local tech nerd I have some suggestions:

(Also, none of these feature AI tools as far as I’ve been able to tell!)

Search engine suggestions

The popular one I see is duckduckgo, but they’ve had a number of scandals at this point. The one I currently use is startpage, which is based in the Netherlands. The EU has much stricter data privacy laws than US based search engines. It operates off google but hides your data from google, so you get the benefit of google’s search engine without them knowing every single little thing about you.

Browser suggestions

The one I personally use is Vivaldi because aside from a once a day ping to count active users, they track no user data. It also has a built in ad and tracker blocker that works well in my opinion. It also hasn’t had any major scandals. (Please for the love of god don’t use operaGX)

Email suggestions

The one I currently use is Proton Mail. The proton ecosystem also features a VPN, Drive, Calendar, and other tools- it’s essentially a 1:1 replacement for most google/office 365 tools. To have a good amount of storage you do need to pay, but it’s not terribly expensive and most people can get by on the free tier. You can also have it reroute emails from your Gmail to proton, so you can benefit from their encryption without nuking your Gmail.

Other suggestions

Linus Tech Tips has a series on how to “un-google” your life. YouTube took down all videos except the first one (another example of big corps being fucking wild), but they can be found on blogs if you look up the series.

Stay safe yall 🩵

[distant-screaming]

fucking two step verification. 'are you trying to sign in?' TO MY OWN LAPTOP I'VE HAD FOR FOUR YEARS????????? I'M GOING TO KILL YOU

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Opting Out of Gmail's Gemini AI Summaries Is a Mess. Here's How to Do It, We Think

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hiii~✨ for the constellation ask game :

andromeda ⟢ what is a world record you think you could totally beat if you really wanted to?

Hi!! I could definitely beat the record for using up device storage the fastest

[ameliakeli]

Fast and Secure Gmail to Gmail Transfer for All Your Data

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I haven’t really seen any of the more recent U.S. election news hitting tumblr yet so here’s some updates (now edited with sources added):

There’s evidence of Trump cheating and interfering with the election.

Possible Russian interference.

Mail-in ballots are not being counted or “recognized” in multiple (notably swing) states.

30+ bomb threats were called in and shut down polling stations on Election Day.

20+ million votes are still unaccounted for, and that’s just to have the same voter turnout as 2020.

There was record voter turnout and new/first-time voter registration this year. We definitely should be well over the turnout in 2020.

U.S. citizens are using this site to demand, not only a recount, but a complete investigation into election fraud and interference for the reasons stated above:

Here is what I submitted as an example:

An investigation for election interference and fraud is required. We desperately need a recount or even a revote. The American people deserve the right to a free and fair election. There has been evidence unveiled of Trump cheating and committing election fraud which is illegal. There is some evidence of possible Russian interference. At least 30+ bomb threats were called in to polling places. Multiple, notably swing states, have ballots unaccounted for and voting machines not registering votes. Ballots and ballot boxes were tampered with and burned. Over 20 million votes that we know of are unaccounted for. With record turnout and new voter registration this year, there should be no possibility that there are less votes than even in the 2020 election.

Sources (working on finding more links but if anyone wants to add info, it’s appreciated):

FBI addressing Russian interference and bomb threats:

Emails released by Rachael Bellis (private account, can’t share original tweet) confirming Trump committing election fraud:

Pennsylvania's Centre County officials say they are working with their ballot scanner vendor to figure out why the county's mail-in ballot data is "not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software:”

Wisconsin recount:

[ID:

Multiple screenshots and images.

The first is a screenshot with a link and information for contacting the White House directly regarding election fraud. The instructions include choosing to leave a comment to President Joe Biden directly and to select election security as the reason.

The screenshot then instructs people to include any or all of the following information in a paragraph as a comment to the president:

32 fake bomb threats were called into Democratic leaning poll places, rendering polling places closed for at least an hour.

A lot of people reporting their ballots were not counted for various reasons.

This all occurred in swing states.

This is too coincidental that these things happen and swing in his favor after months of hinting at foul play.

Directly state that an investigation for tampering, interference, fraud is required, not just a recount.

The second image is from the FBI Twitter account that reads:

The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far. https://t.co/j3YfajVK1m — FBI (@FBI) November 5, 2024

The next four Gmail screenshots of an email sent to Rachael Bellis from Chris T. Spackman that read together as follows:

Dear BELLIS, RACHAEL E., The Dauphin County Board of Elections received a challenge to your absentee ballot you applied for in the November 5, 2024 General Election. The challenge argues that a provision of the Pennsylvania Election Code takes precedence over the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which requires states and counties to permit U.S. citizens who move overseas to vote by absentee ballot for federal offices based on their last U.S. residential address.

The full text of the challenge that was filed appears below this email.

You may respond to the challenge in any of the following ways:

1. Call the Bureau of Registration and Election at (717) 780-6360;

2. Email a statement to the Bureau at Election election@dauphincounty.gov. Any statement you submit regarding the period during which you lived in Dauphin County, any family or connections that you still have here, and why you are now residing abroad would be read into the record.

3. Appear in person at a Board of Elections hearing scheduled for Friday, November 8 at a time to be determined in the Commissioners Public Hearing Room, 4th floor of Dauphin County Administration Building, 2 S 20d St, Harrisburg, PA 17111. The meeting is also likely to be livestreamed on Facebook on the Dauphin County channel.

Sincerely,

Christopher T Spackman

TEXT OF CHALLENGE BEGINS

Dear Dauphin County Board of Elections,

I am submitting this challenge to an absentee ballot application pursuant to 25 Pa. Stat.

3146.8(f).

25 Pa. Stat. 3146.8(f) Any person challenging an application for an absentee ballot, an absentee ballot, an application for a mail-in ballot or a mail-in ballot for any of the reasons provided in this act shall deposit the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) in cash with the county board, which sum shall only be refunded if the challenge is sustained or if the challenge is withdrawn within five (5) days after the primary or election. If the challenge is dismissed by any lawful order then the deposit shall be forfeited. The county board shall deposit all deposit money in the general fund of the…

The rest of the forwarded email is cut off.

The last image is a screenshot of the official statement from the Centre County, Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners released on November 6, 2024 that states:

Centre County Working with Ballot Scanner Vendor to Export Election Results.

(Bellefonte, PA) -Centre County Elections Office is working continuously to provide mail-in ballot data in order to post unofficial results.

To this point, all ballots have been scanned, including all mail-in ballots.

Centre County's Election team and IT team have identified that the data are successfully being exported from the mail-in ballot scanners, but that the data is not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software.

Centre County's Administrator, John Franek, Jr. stated, "We have not stopped working, and we will continue to work until unofficial results are posted and reported to the Pennsylvania Department of State."

As a next step, Centre County has begun working with the equipment vendor to adjust configurations to make the two systems-the mail-in ballot scanner and the elections software where data are uploaded -compatible with one another.

We will provide updates as we make progress.

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[jcmarchi]

AWISEE.com Analyzes Gmail's AI-Powered Search Update and Its Impact on Influencer Marketing

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AWISEE.com Analyzes Gmail's AI-Powered Search Update and Its Impact on Influencer Marketing

Google has recently released an AI-powered update to Gmail’s search functionality. The update sees the email app move away from the chronological display of search results to a new relevance-based ordering of results.

The built-in AI engine analyses emails based on factors like recency, most-clicked emails, and frequent contacts, to display conversations users are likely to be looking for. This isn’t just a convenience update but an improvement that professionals, including influencer marketers, who manage high volumes of correspondence, will appreciate. A fast-growing influencer marketing agency based in Europe, AWISEE.com, has taken a closer look at how the new Gmail update could help enhance influencer marketing.

How Gmail’s AI search update enhances influencer outreach

Source: Google blog

Gmail’s AI-powered update helps ensure effective communication and strengthens relationships for brands and agencies using influencer marketing.

Prioritising important responses

Influencer marketing relies heavily on engagement, and prompt responses are important to create and maintain partnerships. Gmail’s AI-driven search ensures that emails from influencers and other collaborators you’ve interacted with are displayed first.

Andrea Noureddine, AWISEE’s Influencer Marketing Coordinator, said, “New relationships are also given a priority as the AI can analyse content in emails and understand its relevance in future communications. If you are in a critical stage like negotiation with an influencer, you’ll see the communication at the top of the results.”

This makes it easier to find important emails and reduces the risk of delays in communication.

Streamlining follow-ups

Maintaining partnerships and ensuring that a brand’s marketing goals are met needs timely follow-ups. Before Google released Gmail’s latest update, marketers had to sift through pages of emails to find the latest correspondence with a specific influencer. Now, the email interface brings up the most relevant conversations.

Andrea said, “If a marketer needs to reach out to an influencer to enquire about various deliverables, they’ll have an easier time as Gmail will give priority to conversations that need a follow-up.”

Enhanced organisation for large-scale outreach

Part of influencer marketing is reaching out to many brands, agencies, and dozens – if not hundreds – of influencers. This can easily become challenging when an organisation isn’t efficient, and Gmail’s traditional chronological search order certainly didn’t help. An important conversation could be buried under tens of others that aren’t relevant.

Now that message sorting is based on AI, marketers have an easier time focusing on priority interactions. “What this means is that outreach emails that received a response, ongoing collaborations, and messages from the influencers you often work with are easier to locate,” Andrea said.

Using AI for data-driven influencer strategies

According to AWISEE, marketing relies on data, which makes AI an integral part of all strategies. Data focus goes beyond email management and requires that marketing agencies adopt advanced AI tools for analysing influencer profiles, assessing engagement authenticity, and refining campaign targeting.

Gmail’s AI search integration aligns perfectly with this data-driven approach to ensure a more streamlined and efficient workflow.

Andrea expanded how AWISEE.com is taking advantage of the update, and the AI tools that seem to come out every other day:

“At AWISEE.com, we are committed to enhancing our influencer outreach by integrating Google’s recent AI enhancements to Gmail’s search functionality. The technology allows us to prioritise emails based on relevance, considering factors like recency and user interaction frequency, thereby facilitating more efficient and effective collaborations.

“On top of that, we use advanced AI tools to improve our influencer outreach. By analysing influencer profiles and assessing engagement authenticity, we ensure our communications resonate with each influencer’s unique style. The approach strengthens our partnerships and aligns our strategies with the dynamic nature of digital marketing, delivering exceptional value to our clients.”

The future of influencer marketing in the age of AI

Gmail’s latest search update is just one example of the increasingly important role that AI plays in influencer marketing. As the technology evolves, it will become increasingly more influential in how brands and agencies identify, engage, and collaborate with influencers.

Hyper-personalised influencer outreach

AI can analyse huge amounts of data about a brand, influencer, and customers, so we can expect outreach strategies to become more tailored. Instead of sending generic pitch emails, brands and agencies can use AI to create personalised messages based on an influencer’s past collaboration, content style, demographics, and engagement trends.

Predictive analytics for campaign performance

Beyond improving outreach, AI plays an important role in marketing decision-making. It can analyse historical campaign data to help predict which influencers can drive the highest engagement and conversions for a particular brand. Agencies and brands can use this information to create more impactful campaigns by reducing guesswork.

Smarter campaign optimisation

AI can track the performance of different influencer campaigns in real-time, offering actionable insights into what’s working and what’s not. This gives brands and agencies metrics like engagement rates, audience sentiment, and conversation rates, which can be used to know whether a campaign needs tweaking.

Gmail’s recent update aligns with this goal, as all parties involved can look up past correspondence easily, quickly identifying strategies that aren’t working.

AWISEE.com‘s Andrea summarises:

“At AWISEE, we see AI as a game-changer in influencer marketing and a tool that we can take advantage of to maximise the chances of meeting our clients’ campaign goals. Gmail’s AI-driven search will go a long way in ensuring we prioritise conversations that matter and act on various insights in real time. And when you combine this with the advanced AI analytics we already have access to, we’ll be able to create data-driven influencer strategies that work well in today’s dynamic digital landscape.”

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Is ProntonMail worth it? Yahoo forced through their new email changes and it's garbage. They refuse to switch back to the old format and I am considering switching.

I have little experience with PM, but I imagine nothing can be worse than Yahoo! being trash or Google spying on you.

I use Tutanota* for my burners now, and the one thing I have to warn you is to never forget your password because of iirc both Tuta and PM use encryption by default and you will at least lose any old emails. I have this like 40 character reset code somewhere I had to write down in case I ever lose access.

Otherwise, I use GMail for my personal since I literally only use it for the email requirement most platforms have for like bills and such. Do note that if you go with Tuta or PM there might be some performance drops because their servers are out in the EU afaik.

*Just for complete transparency I've logged into it like maybe a dozen times in three years. What the web UI looks like now I couldn't tell you. I'm not sure what features you lost in the Yahoo update or what you don't like but Tuta and I assume PM are fairly minimalist like GMail last I knew.

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Xandr, la fin d'un mythe?

En 2007, dans la foulée de la naissance du RTB (Real-Time Bidding) permettant d'acheter aux enchères des impressions publicitaires sur le web et le mobile, naissait Appnexus, l'un des premiers DSP (Demand-Side Platform) permettant aux acheteurs de diffuser leurs campagnes sur un inventaire large et varié, aux enchères et avec des options de ciblage (géolocalisation, blocklists, jour/heure et autres datas, y compris datas tierces).

Résultat: Google met la main sur les emplacements les plus premium, avec une priorité maximale (le fameux "first look"), une prérogative longtemps détenue par des acteurs comme Criteo qui n'est désormais plus que l'ombre de lui-même dans ce marché du display programmatique.

Xandr a de beaux restes: des SSP (Supply-Side Platforms, autrefois appelés "Ad Exchanges"), dont son propre SSP encore utilisé par de nombreuses régies, notamment en France (Mediasquare, Prisma Media, Webedia, Figaro medias), mais qui vendent aussi sur d'autres plateformes, à Google et à des clients en direct. Xandr se console avec son inventaire propriétaire (MSN) et le partenariat historique avec Yahoo! mais trop de facteurs viennent perturber la performance et la lisibilité des performances de ces campagnes, incitant les annonceurs à reporter leurs budgets vers des leviers "plus sûrs" et notamment les produits de la galaxie Alphabet/Google mais aussi le Paid Social, que ce soit sur Meta (Facebook, Instagram...) ou d'autres (X, SnapChat, Pinterest, TikTok...)

Et la CTV alors?

Le pari de la CTV, comme jadis celui du mobile, prend du temps à se concrétiser. Techniquement, tout est prêt pour la diffusion de campagnes sur des TV connectées et autres devices video. Mais la concurrence de la TV linéaire est toujours présente car son impact sur les consommateurs est immédiat, palpable, pour un CMO comme pour son CEO ou même son CFO qui a plus de chances de voir sa marque apparaître sur le petit écran comme des millions d'autres français.

Ce qui risque de changer la donne, c'est l'AI. Les nouveautés dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle ne manquent pas et "AI" ou "IA" deviennent des buzzwords mis à toutes les sauces, qu'on parle de recettes de cuisine, de téléphonie, d'éducation ou d'automobile. Mais ici, l'application IA qui nous intéresse est celle, comme Sora de OpenAI, qui sera en capacité de produire de petits films de 10, 15, 20 ou 30 secondes, à très peu de frais et donc accessible à la multitude des annonceurs "SMB" (Small & Medium Businesses).

Alors qu'actuellement les frais de création peuvent représenter jusqu'à 50% de la campagne, ils tomberont à quasi 0, laissant le reliquat de budget à la diffusion sur les plateformes video, des box TV aux TV connectées, des smartphones aux plateformes de streaming comme Netflix (disponible via Xandr justement) et Amazon Prime.

Résultat: Google met la main sur les emplacements les plus premium, avec une priorité maximale (le fameux "first look"), une prérogative longtemps détenue par des acteurs comme Criteo qui n'est désormais plus que l'ombre de lui-même dans ce marché du display programmatique.

Xandr a de beaux restes: des SSP (Supply-Side Platforms, autrefois appelés "Ad Exchanges"), dont son propre SSP encore utilisé par de nombreuses régies, notamment en France (Mediasquare, Prisma Media, Webedia, Figaro medias), mais qui vendent aussi sur d'autres plateformes, à Google et à des clients en direct. Xandr se console avec son inventaire propriétaire (MSN) et le partenariat historique avec Yahoo! mais trop de facteurs viennent perturber la performance et la lisibilité des performances de ces campagnes, incitant les annonceurs à reporter leurs budgets vers des leviers "plus sûrs" et notamment lesproduits de la galaxie Alphabet/Google mais aussi le Paid Social, que ce soit sur Meta (Facebook, Instagram...) ou d'autres (X, SnapChat, Pinterest, TikTok...)

Et la CTV alors?

Le pari de la CTV, comme jadis celui du mobile, prend du temps à se concrétiser. Techniquement, tout est prêt pour la diffusion de campagnes sur des TV connectées et autres devices video. Mais la concurrence de la TV linéaire est toujours présente car son impact sur les consommateurs est immédiat, palpable, pour un CMO comme pour son CEO ou même son CFO qui a plus de chances de voir sa marque apparaitre sur le petit écran comme des millions d'autres français.

Ce qui risque de changer la donne, c'est l'AI. Les nouveautés dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle ne manquent pas et "AI" ou "IA" deviennent des buzzwords mis à toutes les sauces, qu'on parle de recettes de cuisine, de téléphonie, d'éducation ou d'automobile. Mais ici, l'application IA qui nous interesse est celle, comme Sora de OpenAI, qui sera en capacité de produire de petits films de 10, 15, 20 ou 30 secondes, à très peu de frais et donc accessible à la multitude des annonceurs "SMB" (Small & Medium Businesses).

Alors qu'actuellement les frais de création peuvent représenter jusqu'à 50% de la campagne, ils tomberont à quasi 0, laissant le reliquat de budget à la diffusion sur les plateformes video, des box TV aux TV connectées, des smartphones aux plateformes de streaming comme Netflix (disponible via Xandr justement) et Amazon Prime.

En attendant que les prompts deviennent le langage des créatifs, le monde du display programmatique doit faire le dos rond, en espérant également que les régulateurs, aux US comme dans l'Union Européenne, ne s'intéressent aux "dirty little secrets" de Google. Mais avec l'influence grandissante des milliardaires de la tech, il y a peu de chances que l'administration US ne fasse tomber des empires. du digital. On passe ainsi d'un extrême à l'autre sans se soucier des détails et surtout de ce qui rend le virtuel vertueux. Sic transit gloria mundi...

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[ms-demeanor]

How to avoid sharing Social Media Scams in the Wake of a Disaster

The world is full of disasters. It is also full of people who have learned to profit off of disaster. It is an unfortunate fact of life in the modern social media/online environment that in order to avoid spreading scams, you have to make a continuous effort and you have to be cynical.

There are a lot of wonderful, well-meaning people in the world who want to help everyone who asks for it. Unfortunately, those people are easy to scam.

These are some rules to prevent you from either falling victim to scams or from passing scams along to other people.

These are not suggestions, these are not things to take into consideration, the rules listed here are RULES that you need to adopt in order to keep from spreading scams on social media.

Rules:

Never, ever share screenshots of fundraisers or resources that you haven’t verified yourself. If you see a screenshot of, say, the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds Instagram announcing that they will be accepting evacuees with RVs, you go find the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds website, you find the social media linked on their website, and you check that the post you’re seeing actually came from the entity it’s claiming to. Once you have proved that the post actually came from the entity it’s claiming to, double check that entity with a couple of verifiable sources. So, for instance, if I was checking on the Guitar Center Music Foundation I’d check Guitar Center’s website and maybe I’d look for news articles about donations from the foundation. If I was looking up the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, I’d look for a local newspaper calendar of events that linked to the fairgrounds or would check the city websites in the area and search “fairgrounds” on them. I would not share a link to a social media page for an organization until I was 100% certain that it was actually associated with the organization. You shouldn’t either. If you see a post that claims to come from a specific group but all you have is the screenshot of the post, go find the group’s website and if it all checks out you may share it IF AND ONLY IF you add the link to the post. And if a post has a link already, click through it and STILL check that everything looks okay.

Never give money or information to someone with a free email address. This sucks. I know. But if the group you’re looking at only has a gmail address or a protonmail you have no way of knowing if they’re legitimately associated with the organization at a glance. And even if they ARE associated with the organization, the free email account demonstrates a lack of planning/commitment that has troubling implications for the handling of your money or data.

Do not share screenshots of “resources,” headlines, social media posts, or news articles. I’m done with screenshots. Screenshots are easy to fake and almost always remove context from the discussion. A standalone screenshot isn’t information, it’s a trap to get you to share something without thinking. Do not *trust* screenshots of “resources,” headlines, social media posts, or news articles. Always assume a screenshot is faked unless you have found the original post yourself. A screenshot isn’t a “resource” it is an un-source, it is intentionally removing information from the viewer and we are well past the time when people should have understood that sharing screenshots without a link to the original text in context is never, every trustworthy.

Do not give money or information to accounts without a history. This may mean individual social media accounts, or it may mean a shiny new mutual aid project that popped up near your house. It’s unfortunate that people have their accounts deleted, it’s unfortunate that new orgs have trouble finding support, but the likelihood that a new account is a scam is simply too high to trust your money or information with it. If someone is asking for money or offering help on an account that hasn’t posted for years, or that suddenly changed all its content, or that has only existed for a month with no links to other, older sites and socials, you shouldn’t trust that account.

Okay, those are the RULES. Those are the lines you draw in the sand. The TL;DR version is this:

Don’t share posts you haven’t personally verified

Don’t give money or information to accounts with generic email accounts like gmail

Don’t share or trust screenshots that have no links or further context

Don’t give info or money to brand new accounts

I absolve you of any guilt you have surrounding this. You want to share that post to help a stranger but they have only had an account for a week. You want to spread that resource, but unfortunately it is only available as screenshots of an anonymous instagram account. You think that perhaps that mutual aid group really can help people, but the only way contact them is to put your info into a google form and send an email to their gmail account. That post seems really helpful, but actually you can’t find anything that suggests that the Mt. Pacifico Aquatic Center exists outside of this twitter account. No more guilt! Guilt be gone! You do not have to feel bad for not sharing these things, or not reaching out, or not giving money because doing so would be irresponsible and would put other people at risk of being tricked by scammers or wasting what money they can donate on a potential fraud.

Now, some tips:

Always, always, always take at least ten minutes to think about giving someone money or your information online. Read the post that moved you, then re-read it, then go sit away from it for ten minutes and think about it. There’s a good chance you will still want to give, or sign up, but ten minutes away will give you a chance to consider if there are any red flags in the post that inspired you.

Independently search everything you’re going to share. Go outside of social platforms and check on search engines. Check Wikipedia. Look up the website and send a while clicking around. Go on a *different* social media platform and check their account.

Just straight up search “[SUBJECT] Scam” before you do anything. See if this thing you’re looking at is actually an old scam that’s revamped for a new disaster. See if you can find an explanation of how something might be a scam or risk in a way that you didn’t understand before.

Get used to getting away from social media. Go check websites.

Learn domain name syntax. “musicfoundationguit.arcenter.com” is a bullshit scam. “guitarcenterfounditaon.org” is a bullshit scam. “guitarcenter-foundation.org” is a bullshit scam. The actual domain is “guitarcenterfoundation.org” and the link to the correct page isn’t going to be “guitarcenter.foundationfires.org” it’s going to be “guitarcenterfoundation.org/fires”  

Tips for Orgs:

If you do not want your org to look like a scam you are going to have to put some effort into it. Unfortunately this will probably also require at least a little bit of money; I know it’s hard to get money together at the beginning, but it will pay off in the long run.

Invest in a domain and hosted email. You can get relatively inexpensive hosted email through most domain registrars and even if you only get one email address for your domain you can forward it to all the free gmail and protonmail accounts you want. But buy a domain, set up a simple website, and get an  info@[yourdomain].com email set up because you don’t want people emailing “MyOrgInfo@gmail.com” because it’s super fucking easy for a 1337 hax0r like me to set up “YourOrgTeam@gmail.com” and scam the people who want to reach out to you.

Make a blog on your actual website, not on a social media site. A blog means that you can make regular posts and establish a history to prove that you are real and you do real stuff; it will also help with SEO and help to ensure that when people search for your org YOU are what comes up. Keeping up calendars of previous activities with links to those activities is also good.

Set up social handles on all the sites you use, make a “socials” page on your website, and link to your handles so that people can verify if you’re the one posting something. If you don’t make it extremely easy to find your socials, that means it’s extremely easy to set up fake accounts claiming to be you. Then put the link to your website in the bio on your socials.

If you are offering something or holding a fundraiser or doing anything on your social media page, link it back to your website. If you have an IG post offering resources, you should include a url for your site in each image. If you share a photo on twitter with the info for a march, that should link back to your website with more info about the march. If you post a fundraiser on tumblr you need to link the fundraising page of your website on that post.

If you absolutely positively cannot set up a website and a real-ass email address, set up a linktree, choose a primary social media to post on that all the others refer back to, and very explicitly state what your email address is and that you do not have other email addresses somewhere that's difficult to miss. Build a history of posts and link to other orgs that you work with or any writeups or stories about your events or projects. The point of all of this is making yourself easy to verify. "northfullertonfnb@gmail.com" sucks but it sucks a lot less if it's in the bio of "@northfulltertonfnb" and that page has a two year history of posting meal share schedules and menus.

In conclusion, don't share things that you haven't personally checked. When in doubt, it is always safer not to share.

[maduraimart]

Inactive Gmail Accounts Deletion Next Month December 2023 - Secure Steps to Keep Your Google Account Active

Introduction: As we navigate the vast digital landscape, keeping our online accounts secure and active is crucial. Google has recently announced an upcoming cleanup initiative that targets inactive Gmail accounts. Scheduled for deletion next month, this proactive measure aims to enhance security and manage data storage efficiently. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through the steps to ensure…

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Fast and Secure Gmail to Gmail Transfer for All Your Data

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How to open a pst file in Gmail account? Learn the method to upload pst data file in gmail account.

https://www.updatesinsider.com/microsoft/outlook/how-to-open-pst-file-in-gmail/

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