Your comment might seem harmless...but it's really not.
Those quizzes you see popping up on your Facebook Newsfeed might seem like a harmless guilty pleasure, but if you're not careful they could leave you victim of identity theft.
"Please be aware of some of the posts you comment on," the department wrote in a Facebook photo post that now has more than 800,000 shares."[These questionable posts] ask what was your first grade teacher, who was your childhood best friend, your first car, the place you [were] born, your favorite place, your first pet, where did you go on your first flight, etc...Those are the same questions asked when setting up accounts as security questions.
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