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People on the Internet will often be aware that most videos, webinars, and tutorials are monetized in some form. This can be advertising, subscribers, monetary gifts from viewers, or several other ways. Some of those are outright illegal.
Why is such a problem: The problem literally anybody has to face is not the possible data breaches and computer crimes. The problem we all face is getting copied, stolen, and often unverified data that is simply a better quality video a solitary person or small team attempts to monetize.
Dangerous Eye-Candy.
People get paid for weekly contribution of new content, often one can earn sums that make doing a regular job superfluous. Such could have been a wonderful option, but crime never sleeps.
One of the most simple ways to foul play is making criminals infiltrate Internet Service Providers by going in their as A plus employees. They do their job properly, never moan about low pay or not being promoted. Because, they don't have to! On command, they meddle with your data and money straight at the very source. From inside your internet connections provider!
Imagine being harassed and mobbed, not because of your flaws and failures, but because a covert criminal only pretending to be that flawless vita employee is ordered to empty jobs, so more of the criminals can come in and subtly take over the company. At the best by leaving the leadership unaware, so to later be scapegoated.
It sounds difficult, but in truth it does not even need any genius. Such criminal groups specialize in covert crimes like this, as it is a highly lucrative section of society.
Long before Google and other bigger companies opposed the usage of VPN, there was already a limit: A VPN can NOT protect from anything, or anybody, already in with your very own internet connection.
When we look at the fact that even people in the lower ranks, lets say with twenty five thousand viewers or subscribers, depending on platform, earn several thousand extra dollars or euros, often bypassing tax office along the criminal ride, such forms a very well known motive for crime.
That money may be wasted o substance abuse, but smarter criminals start to spawn legitimate enterprises and businesses, so to present a more attractive facade and fake exactly the legitimacy that criminals do NOT embody, when compared to reliable companies.
Our ego does not like admitting how often we are helpless, outnumbered, or outgunned, but that will never stop the abusive or the selfish in factual reality. Sites like Trust Pilot attempt to help all of us, but relying on only that is harshly a sufficient degree of security.
Warning signs that your very connection is compromised in some form:
You never have the full speed of your internet connection.
Constant, unapproved downloads in the background.
The only people ever online are, on closer inspection, very few and mostly of one and the same mindset.
Awareness and informing yourself are mandatory first steps to protect your data, your money, and your hardware and software.