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06th Jul 2016

WATCH: Coffee shop prank shows the dangers of sharing your data online

Alan Loughnane

You have to be careful…

Identity theft and fraud are huge problems in the social media driven society we live in today.

To show people just how easy it can be for someone to find out a huge amount about you, simply from your Facebook page, Cifas UK, have created this short video.

The video from the fraud protection agency shows people being offered a free coffee in response to a like on Facebook, but then demonstrates just how much information they can gather on you in the length of time it takes them to make your coffee.

The video states, “don’t make it easy for them”, and we agree with it…

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