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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2787220, member: 76194"]This may come as an surprise as I'm relatively young, but I don't post any collectables, jewelry, or pictures of cash on social media. Although I have family and friends in my social media, I also have people who I don't know that well, and posting to random people that I have this or that collectable, and by the way I live in such and such a place and my name is....is a recipes for disaster. A woman in Florida was murdered 4 hours after she posted to Facebook that she thanked God for allowing her to go from broke to a six figure salary in 5 years. Probably murdered by a botched robery from an "acquaintance" on Facebook who took it as an invitation to commit armed robery.</p><p><br /></p><p>This forum is my one exception, and even here most don't know my full name nor where exactly in Florida I live (except for 3 or 4 I regularly buy coins from)...and Florida is a big crowded place. I even use a VPN to scramble my IP address. Not that it would make it easy knowing my address as they would still have to get past armed security patrolling the neighborhood, cameras, a home alarm system, and well armed inhabitants in the house, only to discover that I don't keep too many coins at home anyway, as I have a safety deposit box at an undisclosed location.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2787220, member: 76194"]This may come as an surprise as I'm relatively young, but I don't post any collectables, jewelry, or pictures of cash on social media. Although I have family and friends in my social media, I also have people who I don't know that well, and posting to random people that I have this or that collectable, and by the way I live in such and such a place and my name is....is a recipes for disaster. A woman in Florida was murdered 4 hours after she posted to Facebook that she thanked God for allowing her to go from broke to a six figure salary in 5 years. Probably murdered by a botched robery from an "acquaintance" on Facebook who took it as an invitation to commit armed robery. This forum is my one exception, and even here most don't know my full name nor where exactly in Florida I live (except for 3 or 4 I regularly buy coins from)...and Florida is a big crowded place. I even use a VPN to scramble my IP address. Not that it would make it easy knowing my address as they would still have to get past armed security patrolling the neighborhood, cameras, a home alarm system, and well armed inhabitants in the house, only to discover that I don't keep too many coins at home anyway, as I have a safety deposit box at an undisclosed location.[/QUOTE]
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