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Welcome to the age of suspicion (opens the original)
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When is the last time you answered an unknown number on your cell phone? Yet, we used to answer phones without any idea of who was calling. It wasn’t that long ago, as caller-ID was introduced in 1988 but wasn’t widely adopted until the 1990s. Scams have become so widespread that we have had to train ourselves in the art of doubting: a few years ago, my wife almost fell for a scammer impersonating our department chair. I have answered a few emails that turned out to be scams (luckily neither of
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