This holiday season seems fraught with perils, both family and from the outer world. We don’t know what to do about meeting up, in my family, yet. It is a delicate and unnerving situation, dealing with some members. But on the good side, my 2 sisters, both of whom had surgery, are well and on the mend. But just recently I think I have been phished, by a cryptocurrency villain. Someone purporting to be from support at a marketplace I use requested a full set of documents proving my income, occupation, etc. The email address appears to be from the correct site. And such a request is not entirely unexpected, sometimes, since this marketplace is tied to my bank and is under U.S. law, and might need to verify quite a bit. Just like banks, they have to do due diligence, and prevent money laundering, and so on. But I delayed providing anything, and sent a ticket to support on the site to verify if this was for real… and on the support page it says clearly that their staff isn’t allowed to open anything but JPEGs and PNG files. This person asked for PDFs. Aha. I think I avoided major robbery. I’m not sending anything. The site hasn’t answered yet, but in light of that I refuse to proceed. It’s scary out there.