Chapter 10. Two more for the road
If you can’t trust Oprah
Oprah Winfrey is one of the most popular and trustworthy people in America today. So, if you got an email from Oprah, certainly you could believe that what she said was the truth—and the information contained within that email probably would be information you could rely on.
Unfortunately, for the many people who received an emailed invitation from Oprah to attend a taping of her show, the email they received was not from Oprah but from an identity thief. By the way, Oprah herself has been a victim of identity theft. It can happen to anyone. In the unsolicited email purporting to be from Oprah, the recipients were told that they would receive tickets to her show after they either verified ...
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