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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 15/10/2025
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 26/09/2025
⚠️ Your routine may be more accessible than you think. If friends can piece together your life from social media, so can attackers.
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 24/09/2025
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 23/09/2025
Catch the second half of @triketora.com's interview with @bjmendelson.com in Episode 2 of Stupid Sexy Privacy!
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 18/09/2025
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 24/07/2025
Still updating your settings one by one? Let Block Party fix the privacy and security risks across your accounts in just a few clicks — so you don’t have to choose between your protection and your time. ⌛️
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 08/08/2025
Posts about DEI, remote work, layoffs, war, and AI have flooded LinkedIn and sparked tons of engagement, but those posts may now sit awkwardly alongside your current professional brand. Looking for a fresh start? We can bulk delete your old posts for you. 🔗 www.blockpartyapp.com/blog/how-to-...
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 17/09/2025
Scammers are using your social media data to impersonate people in your network — even your boss. What types of #phishing messages have you received? 👀
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 17/09/2025
🚨 PSA: It's time to lock down your socials
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 16/09/2025
Catch @triketora.com on the latest episode of Stupid Sexy Privacy! "Block Party's Tracy Chou returns to talk with @bjmendelson.com about the fight against privacy nihilism and how to get the most out of Block Party."
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This is an excellent list of tips. One thing I also do: I use @blockpartyapp.com which walks you through your social media settings to make them safer. I have found it easy to use & helpful. there are lot of settings on a lot of platforms and it’s hard to keep track of them all.
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 11/09/2025
Too many old posts on X (Twitter)? Whether you’re moving on or just ready for a refresh, cleaning up old content keeps your profile current and intentional. Learn how to mass delete your posts on X in our latest video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9ye...
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How to mass delete your X (Twitter) posts
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 15/08/2025
I really can't emphasize enough that it takes only about three pieces of information about someone to re-identify them. None of us are particularly anonymous if we have any sort of sustained online presence
6. The TXFC observed a post on the Bluesky account stating that his birthday was
June 15th. Additionally, the Bluesky account user self-identified as 38 years old, indicating a likely
date of birth (DOB) of
7. The Bluesky account user made additional posts about being in Cincinnati, Ohio.
8. The TXFC observed an additional post by the Bluesky account user regarding the
death of his on 2025, at the age of years old.
9. The TXFC conducted open-source queries of obituaries matching the date of death
of 2025, and likely location of Cincinnati, Ohio, and observed an obituary for
[REDACTED] with a date of death of 2025.
10. Kelly’s obituary was reviewed, which included a listing of all
grandchildren by name. The TXFC conducted Accurint searches for the last name [REDACTED], DOB of
and location of Cincinnati, Ohio, and returned a match of [REDACTED]
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 16/08/2025
One time I posted a picture of my apartment complex's trash compactor and someone immediately messaged me telling me where I lived.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I genuinely think before anyone joins social media for the first time they should be required to read a thread from 4chan demonstrating how quickly a bunch of strangers can track down your physical location by comparing the tile in the background of your selfies to a 6-year old google earth image
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 14/08/2025
While you can’t change what happened, you can shape how you respond to it. Our latest blog guides you through restoration and the steps you can take to recover your losses, protect yourself from further compromise, and process the emotional aftermath. 🔗 www.blockpartyapp.com/blog/you-got...
You got scammed. Now what?
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 08/08/2025
LinkedIn still has a reputation as a “safe” and professional platform, but in reality, it’s one of the most exposed parts of your online identity. Your post history is public, discoverable by search, and visible to 2nd and 3rd degree connections. Learn more: www.blockpartyapp.com/blog/how-to-...
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 08/08/2025
Posts about DEI, remote work, layoffs, war, and AI have flooded LinkedIn and sparked tons of engagement, but those posts may now sit awkwardly alongside your current professional brand. Looking for a fresh start? We can bulk delete your old posts for you. 🔗 www.blockpartyapp.com/blog/how-to-...
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 06/08/2025
“After I got scammed, one of the hardest realizations to swallow was that I had accidentally helped the scammer do it. Not on purpose, of course, but through the digital breadcrumbs I’d left across the internet.” 🔗 Read the full post: www.blockpartyapp.com/blog/visibil...
Visibility vs. vulnerability: what's the tradeoff?
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 24/07/2025
Still updating your settings one by one? Let Block Party fix the privacy and security risks across your accounts in just a few clicks — so you don’t have to choose between your protection and your time. ⌛️
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Feral Horseshoe Crab @feralhorseshoecrab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Same, i have a sophisticated and wealthy client who lost $500k in a fake real estate deal where there were five or six people on the other side of the transaction pretending to be real estate agents, lawyers, court clerks etc.- NOBODY is prepared to be personally targeted in that way.
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REAL.ESTATE - Redirect
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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
oh, yeah--it's way easier to fall for a scam than people usually think
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 15/07/2025
ngl my first reaction upon discovering our intern had fallen for a gift card scam in her first week (an impersonation attack based on details from linkedin, literally the kind of problem that @blockpartyapp.com is solving, an actual example we use in our marketing) was OMG how could you be so dumb
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 17/07/2025
bsky.app/profile/exar...
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Grath @grath.org · 16/07/2025
Being on LinkedIn is relatively unavoidable in my experience, but I don't list my current employer until/unless I'm looking for something new and that means I don't get the gift card scams because that's how they find you.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
since then I've always said I provided real value by being foolish enough to fall for it, but wise enough to realize I'd been had. the middle path.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
at my first job I fell for a fake fedex email targeted to a team@company distro list, started downloading an attachment that was [long hex string].js
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InvestigationCone @investigationcone.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Scammers have gotten really really effective, sadly. You might think it would be nearly impossible to just call a person and get them to pull thousands of dollars cash from the bank, learn how to use Bitcoin, and feed it bill by bill into an CryptoATM in a few hours, but it happens daily.
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Flow Void @flowvoid.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
General rule of thumb is that cops don't call. They knock. It makes sense from their perspective. If they called, someone else could answer and pretend to be you. Or you could claim someone did that, after lying to them. That wouldn't work in person.
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gm0rk.bsky.social @gm0rk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Had a similar experience a few years ago after I started a new job and the scammers pretended to be from HR. I didn't give them my info, but very nearly did. Would have been really embarrassing bc the job was claims handler for insurance for exactly this kind of scam.
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Tony Becker @tony.nacho.org · 16/07/2025
Hate to say, but any hosted PBX can do number and caller ID spoofing. I can do it with my office phone system. It’s easy.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Oh shit, that's right; these guys also showed up on caller ID as an official city number, in fact the *same* number that when I called it back connected me to the *actual cops*. So, number spoofers are very much a thing
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
A friend said later they were lucky to have found someone who thought he'd had jury duty. Without it, I'd have hung up. In the end, when they started going on about me sending them money in some sketchy account I wised up & hung up. But I had like a literal hour of deep panic/terror. Fuck scammers
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I was taken in entirely by scammers recently pretending to be cops who claimed I had missed jury duty. They had my address & a couple of other publicly available pieces of info but the kicker was that I vaguely thought I had indeed gotten a jury summons & it was totally plausible that I'd forgotten
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cudasbob.bsky.social @cudasbob.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Then it's good to spread the word about these things I have an elderly mother... I've seen some stuff Somebody claiming to be from The electric company it showed up at the house and she talked to them... I called the electric company had them send security out lol
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Laura Clemens @lauraclemens.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The shame and loss of confidence is real Moira Stewart is a broadcaster and smart and I am glad she told people about it because she wants to help others
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Moira Stuart says bank cashier saved her from scam
Broadcaster recounts that she was ‘embarrassed and angry with myself’, having thought she was very aware of ripoffs
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Kristin @kehf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This whole thread is excellent, but this is the heart of it.
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Pie Arc Squared @wbfmorningstar.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
thanks for sharing this stuff. I feel for your intern, the scamming is very sophisticated and they target the best parts of ourselves. (they took $200,000 of my mom's retirement as she went into dementia, and ngl, if I had the chance I'd leave em on a landing during a wildfire in cougar country.
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Block Party @blockpartyapp.com · 17/07/2025
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Cliff W. Gilmore @cliffwgilmore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I used to think that way. Then I got a text from my boss that totally seemed legit and got all the way to the buying the gift cards part before all my past formal training kicked in and I realized what was happening. So had to either adjust my ‘tude or decide I was a dummy. Once, Johnny… Once… :)
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TamaraToday @tamaratodayshow.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
3 years ago when I first started I almost fell for the email as well… thank goodness I asked another coworker about why the CEO was emailing me about this… didn’t realize this scam was still going on and that they were specifically targeting new hires from LinkedIn or another social media app
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Wrong Emily @wrongemily.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Thread.
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Kitty Furniture @zuzusunshine.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We had an intern fall for one. Now in all of our new employee meetings we specifically say that no one will ever ask them to spend money for the company. They might have point of sale transactions (travel, meals), but never gift cards or wire transfers.
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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My sister in law's mom, though, has fallen for ALL THE SCAMS and my sis in law and brother wound up having to hire a lawyer to help her deal with it, and give her some money to cover what she was out in cash.
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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I remember the first e-mail of this type I got, purportedly from my department chair. Fortunately I had heard about the scam previously so I e-mailed her a heads=up, "hey someone is doing this" also, I knew she'd never ask one of her faculty to go buy a gift card for her
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Sarah Følina | clikkiesky goes to ØH @subtlefire.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Nessa @vmcf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My SIL got me some really yummy smelling laundry detergent from a small business, I went to re-order by googling the business name and clicked on the first link (which was a paid ad)- super exciting they were having a massive sale, everything 70% off! I filled up my cart, was gonna stock up..
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Acts of Tekla @acts-of-tekla.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We notified the rest of the organization and our IT folks, and said boss has been a lot better about using work emails and phones since!
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Acts of Tekla @acts-of-tekla.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My colleague and I fell for one several years ago. Our boss wasn't always the best at communicating through official channels, and we actually do use gift cards for staff rewards. Fortunately, he was actually in the office that day, so we both asked about it directly, and realized what was up.
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