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Security Desk
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Free Public Wi-Fi Is Not Free: How Fake Hotspots Steal Your Data
Airports, hotels and cafés offer free Wi-Fi. Some of it is a trap with a name that looks like the real thing.
Bluetooth Scams and Hacking: How They Work
Bluetooth cannot empty your bank account by itself, but it can be the first step in an attack.
SIM Swap Fraud in Nigeria: The Scam That Needs No Password
A scammer can take over your accounts using only your phone number and one fooled network agent.
Fraud Watch
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Money & Trust
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Bank Safety
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Build Online
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Fraud and scam awareness
How scams work, how to spot them and where to report them in Nigeria, written so anyone can act on it.
Web security
Practical notes on securing real apps: access rules, server-side writes, payments and the mistakes that cause breaches.
Building in public
What broke in production, how I traced it and what I changed.
What an email looks like
Your POS terminal does not lie
A scammer shows a credit alert, you release the goods, and the money never arrives. This week: how the fake alert works and the one check that stops it.
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I'm Sir Brown AD, a full-stack developer in Abuja building platforms for African digital markets. I write this newsletter so ordinary people can spot a scam before it costs them money.
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