If anyone–the IRS, the electric company, the police–calls you and asks you to buy a prepaid Visa card or a gift card to pay your bill over the phone, it's not who you think it is. They'll tell you to scratch the numbers off the back and read them the numbers. This is a ploy by scammers to get money from you. Don't fall for it!
This tip was inspired by a recent real-life story of a phone scam that terrified a woman in the San Francisco area: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/phone-scam-therapists-16483251.php
When Daniel Rigmaiden was caught committing tax fraud, little did we know that he would expose an infringement on Fourth Amendment rights and even cause the surveillance laws to change.
Honey is a browser extension that promises to find buyers the best discount codes, but it turns out that it just steals from content creators' pockets.
