Truth 25 Hotel business centers can be treacherous

Have you ever been visiting a hotel, not had your laptop with you, and needed to check email? You simply go to the hotel business center and jump on one of the computers set up for use by customers. In some cases, you have to pay a small fee to use the computers, but in most hotels, the computers are complementary to their guests. You open up the Web browser, connect to your Web mail account, type in your username and password, and just like that you are reading and responding to your emails. While you are online, you might also decide to check your bank accounts, check your brokerage site, and more. However, as you can no doubt surmise by now, like most everything else, hotel business centers ...

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