Think about this

At the risk of telling you something you may have already known about, I will mention information I read in the August 1, 2022 edition of Bottom Line Personal.

Pants for all

Detective Kevin Coffey suggests that you wear pants with deep front pockets when traveling. This will make it a little harder for pickpockets to steal your cell phone.

Honda Knows

Besides having obnoxious advertisements, Honda and other popular automobiles spy on you.

According to Albert Fox Cahn Esq., your car keeps track of where it goes and when, and how fast it is driven. In addition, data "may be transferred from any smartphone synched with the car's information system including the phone's call logs, contact lists and text messages."

Scary?

Are you happy in the U.S.?

The World Happiness Report ranks the following nations on their happiness statistics:

Finland  #1 (for the fifth year)

Denmark #2

Iceland #3

Switzerland #4

Netherlands #5

United States #17

Afghanistan #146

Can you afford housing?

The Urban Research Institute and the Frontier Center have determined the following:

Pittsburgh has the most affordable housing in the U.S. and Canada.

Tied for second place are Oklahoma City and Rochester, New York.

The three least affordable U.S. cities as far as housing is concerned are:

San Francisco, Honolulu, and San Jose, California.

Latest Medicare Scam

Arkansas Department of Human Services reports: Fraudsters "spoof" your doctor's office phone and ask you to accept a DNA kit. If you bite, they take your swab and submit it to Medicare for reimbursement under your name.

To avoid the many problems related to this scam, it is advised "to hang up on any call claiming to offer a free genetic test - and do not respond to any text making that kind of offer. Also, one should check their Summary Explanation of Benefits for "gene analysis" or "molecular pathology."

You too can "spoof"

Komando.com mentions that one might want to get a "burner" telephone number to avoid identity theft if one is in "The Dating Game."

Google Voice offers free numbers usable for phone calls, texts and voicemails.

Go to  Voice.Google.com/u/0/signup

There are also these apps:

TextNow 

TextPlus

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