How to protect your identity online
This dog is either extremely good at online impersonation, or the person it replaced is not great at protecting their identity. (Drew Hays/Unsplash/)I’ve been impersonated online four times (that I know of). Three times, someone took my self-portraits and used them to catfish people on Tinder. The other time, someone created an email address and pretended to be me researching an article on Instagram accounts for a site I used to write for. They reached out to big accounts and attempted to get them to hand over their login credentials. In all four cases, I had no idea it was going on until someone who was directly affected contacted me to ask if they were being scammed. I have no idea how many other people were taken in.Of course, it’s not uncommon for public figures caught up in the news cycle or some kind of controversy to be impersonated by...