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It often surprises people what effort someone will go to to steal their identity.

Consider that you have a github account. You might be in the supply chain for a bit of code someone needs to read or backdoor to attack a company that you've never heard of. Github is a harder target though.

The scary ones are the real estate funds redirectors. They just need to be in your inbox for a little bit and boom, hundreds of thousands of $ gone because people don't take the time to re-verify bank account details by in person.



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