The Proliferation of Scams

The Proliferation of Scams
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Several times per day, my phone lights up with a random number. The software notifies me—an useful innovation—that it is likely spam. It goes to voice mail that I never check. Obviously it’s some racketeer trying to get me to cough up a password or grant some access to my email or something along those lines.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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