You might have heard my editorial earlier about an ill-advised foray into teasing a scammer... I thought I’d scam them back by pretending to fall for the text which said ‘hey mum phone just crashed, send me a whatsapp'

But it turned dark real fast when I gave the game away.

It spooked me a little, and the internet was dishing up conflicting information about what could actually accessed about me.

So we’ve called in the expert Netsafe CEO Brent Carey for some help and advice.

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