Caitlin Sarian

And it's like, again, a random email.

There are also sites out there where you can generate real working phone numbers and emails and it will just all go to the one app versus like, you know, going actually into your inbox.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So besides like the actual physical threat, right?

Like everyone's like, oh, you know, people know that you're away from your house.

They're going to, you know, burglarize, which is still accurate.

Scammers now are getting even more specific on what they can do.

So there's a lot of, it's called open source intelligence.

It's anything you do online is really easy to find if you're public, right?

And so for open source intelligence, if they see you and they say, oh, you're at a Marriott hotel in the Bahamas.

Okay, I'm going to call the Marriott hotel, pretend I'm you.

And try to get more information, maybe get your credit card, do whatever, just cause like a mess.

So there's a lot of social engineering from that perspective.

And also scammers have gotten really, really smart with timing when they do scam calls.

So say, for example, someone wanted to call my parents and say they're me, right?

This scares the hell out of me.

Yeah.

And they wait until I'm on a flight.

So if my parents get a call from me, they can't actually get a hold of me because my phone is off.