You’re surrounded by scammers

To own a computer or smartphone – indeed, to engage with the digital world to any degree – is to be a mark. — Toma Vagner/The New York Times

You open your eyes and grope for your phone. You check your inbox and discover dozens of spam emails that made it past the filter.

Tapping over to Instagram, you find a request for a supposed brand collaboration in your DMs. Your WhatsApp notifications, meanwhile, consist solely of strangers asking you to invest in a cryptocurrency exchange.