Legalshield Independent Associate - Eddie Dollgener

Daily Inspirations

Be Encouraging, Not Discouraging

Find words of encouragement to give someone else today. Sometimes this can be difficult to do, especially if it is a worker/colleague who causes you distress from time to time. Do not let your emotional response rule your day. Remember Yahweh God’s love for you despite the numerous reasons you have distressed Him, yet He remains faithful in His blessings to you.

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

I pray for your peace and happiness today. May Yahweh God’s divine intervention protect you in a moment of peril and bless you with words of encouragement from another. Remember the grace you received from faith in Christ Jesus and share Him with the world around you.

Love in Christ Jesus, amen.

GET COUNTED!

It is so important that each eligible citizen - that is every man, woman, and child - who lives in the United States needs to be counted in the 2020 Census. Right now thousands of Census takers are out in the field, working in the heat, and going to the doors of those Americans who for some reason have not completed their census questionnaire. This may be the most significant census in recent history. Every person and every community needs as accurate an accounting of each individual for proper representation. Friends, please don’t close doors in their faces. Even when they show up late in the evening on Sunday. Time is running short before the coming election, one that is sure to be contentious for all parties involved. One missed count could result in the wrong number of representatives for your community and state. Taking part in the census is your patriotic duty as well as your duty to the community you live in.

If you truly care, then duly share.

Okay folks, quick and valuable lesson with a simple fix, but you are going to have to do a little work. So I got a little bit frustrated with a “friend” request from a popular giant social media platform that just about everybody in the world uses. As you can guess, this was a hacked identity account. The scammers didn’t hack the account, they just took the profile picture and name of this trusted friend and created a new account with a personalized link. Then they sent me a friend request through the messaging app that also happens to be part of this social media giant.

Now I know friends constantly lose phones or forget passwords and have to change accounts, so I’m not railing against this platform. It is a great place to connect with friends and family while in this current situation we are forced to endure. Criminals are everywhere, so you cannot expect to free of their insidious plots to steal your money.

But you can take actions that help you and your friends and other acquaintances. When you get a new friend request, especially through that messaging app, before you even respond, click on the profile of the sender. You might say, “I’ve known this person my whole life! Why should I doubt the authenticity of this personal request from a dear friend?” That is exactly the response the hacker wants from you. They have probably already scanned through your own profile to see who you have the most conversations with in the past.

Don’t go back to your friend’s profile that’s been there for years. Go to the profile from the app. You may find their most recent profile picture, or you may find a blank. You are not looking for that. You are looking for something else. Look for the link to the page. It will say something like “personalized page link”. It will have something like: “[Your Friend’s Name]www.[media].com/[hacker’s personal page identifier]. Copy that link down somewhere for reporting to your friends and to the giant, then return to the app.

If you discover that it really is your friend, then you may have nothing else to worry about for now. However, if you now know that this is a scammer who is forwarding wonderful new about a grant they just received and want to forward you to that program, then ask them a personal question that only you and your friend would know, but don’t share with them whether they are right or wrong in the answer. Now you have to report the hacker to the app and file a report, which is basically just a few clicks of the mouse or touching the screen about five times. Be sure to block the sender as well.

Blessings in the love of Christ.