{"id":8682,"date":"2023-12-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=8682"},"modified":"2023-12-07T02:33:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:33:44","slug":"thursday-wisdom-the-inverse-correlation-of-time-and-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/thursday-wisdom-the-inverse-correlation-of-time-and-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Wisdom: The Inverse Correlation of Time and Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>NOTE: I\u2019ll be going on a blogging vacation between December 18 and 31, during which there may or may not be any posts. But, we\u2019ll ring in the new year on January 1, 2024 with the 2023 version of Travel Hacking as Told by GIFs though, so no need to be up in arms. What\u2019s this \u201cmay\u201d, you ask? I\u2019m soliciting for guest posts and I\u2019ll use those during the regularly scheduled newsletter. They should be non-sponsored, non-promotional, non-political, and at least travel hacking or churning adjacent. Please reach out to me if you\u2019re interested, it\u2019ll be the third easiest gig you\u2019ve ever gotten!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In person manufactured spend has multiple potential points of failure, but the most silently insidious is buying a Visa, Mastercard, or third party gift card and discovering that it\u2019s been tampered with after you\u2019ve bought it. Time isn\u2019t on your said when that happens because it gives the scammer more opportunity to drain the card before you\u2019re able to act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most tampering scams require the scammers to check cards at least daily to see if they\u2019ve been activated, so you\u2019ve got an expectation value of a few hours time between when you buy the card and the moment that a scammer discovers it\u2019s been activated. That means a stack of gift cards on your desk waiting to be liquidated has an increasing likelihood of issues, and a decreased expected net value over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The obvious takeaway? Open and inspect cards you buy immediately and liquidate as soon as possible (whether or not you\u2019ve been scammed, but obviously especially if you\u2019ve been scammed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fe0c8254-2a65-47c0-b18e-1db3ed311753-641-0000012200370bee_file.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8684\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The rule also applies to this, <em>err<\/em> desert, the longer you wait between eating and the food exiting your system, the higher the risk to your digestive health. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: I\u2019ll be going on a blogging vacation between December 18 and 31, during which there may or may not be any posts. But, we\u2019ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scam","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}