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Starbucks wifi in Denver got me phished last month
I connected to their guest network to check my bank app and woke up to $340 in fraudulent charges the next morning. Anyone know a good way to verify public wifi before logging into sensitive stuff?
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nathan_patel4d ago
Man, I set up a personal hotspot from my phone for banking. Cost me like $15 a month extra. That $340 you lost, that's two years of hotspot fees right there. Your bank app should use encryption anyway. I check my accounts on public wifi all the time in coffee shops. Never had an issue. You sure your phone wasn't already compromised? Like maybe you downloaded something sketchy. Public wifi itself isn't the boogeyman people make it out to be.
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william9174d agoTop Commenter
Oh man, that's a good point. Actually had a buddy who was super careful, used a VPN and everything on public wifi, still got his login stolen because he accidentally typed his password into a fake login page that looked exactly like his bank's. So yeah, sometimes it's not the wifi itself but what you click on while you're on it.
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