098 Fraud
29 Mar 2019 · 3 min

2:49
Kim Gaskill warns about the risks of oversharing on social media and identity theft. She urges precautions to protect your finances and personal data, and reminds viewers to balance authenticity with safety online.

Kim Gaskill warns about the risks of oversharing on social media and identity theft. She urges precautions to protect your finances and personal data, and reminds viewers to balance authenticity with safety online.
It's a new day. I'm Kim Gaskill and this is the Daily Spark. Fraud. What do you think about these lowlife people that spend their time hacking into other people's accounts, stealing identities, stealing credit cards, all that stuff, and because they can't make it, or just because they want to cause havoc in somebody else's life. What do you think about that kind of person? I know you're not that kind of person, but it is such an inconvenience to try and keep all of our data secure and open enough to live the life that we want, but safe enough to keep people we don't want out. How are you doing that? Are you checking frequently what's going on with your finances, with your social media accounts, with your Data protection. Are you taking any precautions to ensure that if somebody does get into your information that you're protected? There are a lot of options today. None of them are pleasant or cheap, but we're getting to the point where if you want to be on social media, if you want to be in the public view, you need to be smart about it. You need to take that philosophy of being genuine and being authentic and being raw and real and open and tether it to a little bit of safety, a little bit of caution, because they are out there. Not to be a downer, but just want to give you a friendly reminder to protect yourself and think twice sometimes about how open you're being, because people are watching. Catch you again tomorrow for another daily spark.