Online quizzes tell you fun things like your real personality type, the dog breed that best suits you, the ideal retirement vacation for you and other fun and interesting personal matters.
Who wouldn’t enjoy taking such a fun quiz?
The problem: Our fondness for online quizzes (and surveys, too) can make it possible for scammers to gain access to our private information. Scammers have figured out ways to collect a single data point here, another one there and link them to larger “data collections”.
Answering seemingly innocuous questions — your city of birth, your father’s first name, the color of your first car– can be data points that sophisticated scammers use to identify you.
AARP offers these steps to avoid scammers. Just click here to learn some ideas to protect yourself.