Scams to Watch Out for this summer

Alaska, Anchorage - Report by Brianna. Today, we will give information about Scams to Watch Out for this summer .

I love travel - travel I live for travel.

travel the world is fabulous and fun, there is always so much to discover!
If you move this summer, you must be aware of some of the scams that float and stay protected.

travel scams to Watch Out For

WiFi

If you have traveled internationally these last time you already know what maniac is expensive data. My cell door, Verizon, charge $ 25 for each 100 MB. It's crazy, especially with our lives running around our smartphones. When you travel you tend to use your mini-laptop pocket all the time - googling facts on what you see, you're looking for a great seafood restaurant is close, road routes, I look at the 30 seconds of download video you have just taken - it's constant. 
100 MB go far, so you need to use Wifi as much as possible, but she has some risks.

image via Jarrang.com

the latest wifi scam involves free wifi. Maybe you're in an airport, a hotel lobby, a public square, maybe you are in a coffee shop, and bingo-test - you will find a free wifi. Quickly connect to facebook, upload photos, don't check your emails and Please no , check your bank account before you go on your way. Public WiFi is not safe in the best of cases, it is well known to be an easy hack.

one of the current scams involves hackers set up wifi hotspots free and target your personal details, your private photos, your social insurance number, your mobile Bank, your insurance information, your credit cards, you name it.

to enter your personal information, hackers use the two decrypting SSL and SSL stripping to demote secure areas and access to your passwords and your payment information. How savvy you are, assume they are one step ahead of you, because they probably are.

airport ATMs

Travelex ATM Hong Kong Airport

, the first thing you need to know about the change of currency at the airport, is you're going to get the absolute worse exchange rate. They know they've got you - either you get emergency money or you quit and to unload, so that they can make the rate of Exchange as terrible as they wish. 

If you use the ATM machine at the airport be great warned. Many international airports no longer use ATMs operated by major national and international banks opting instead for ATMs run by companies such as Travelex. 
exchange of retailers have a monopoly on airport ATMs. They pay big fees to the airport and pick up the money, and even more of you, the informed and weary traveller.

they advertise "free withdrawals", you think that you are backing up a winner when in fact they kill you with their exchange rate.
I just read that the travelers lose more than 10% with the exchange rate of these ATMs give.
, you are better off buying foreign currency from your bank at home before you go and then use the ATMs of Bank within the banks to your destination. If you to use the ATM at the airport, pull out only what you absolutely have to get from the airport to your hotel.

(traveling through Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport? Phoenix has the highest out-of-network ATM fees. Check it out here at ABC15.com) [19459006dePhoenix]

readers of RFID credit card.

this isn't only a problem when you travel, it's a huge problem in the domestic market too.
for as little as $50, a pirate can buy a mobile phone size card reader that reads the information on the magnetic strip on your credit card to debit, through your portfolio, hangbag or Pocket wireless.
the reader will pick up your number, expiration date and CCV and flawless code transfer this information to a magnetization tool that encodes this info on a new $300 card. 

at home and when you travel, you should keep all your credit cards and debit inside RFID blocking sleeves in your wallet or RFID blocking the portfolio. Your Passport information is readable, so you can now get RFID blocking Passport sleeves that protect information stored digitally in your Passport. All the these are available at The Container Store

see article on Forbes.com on RFID hacking





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