I Got Scammed by a Counterfeiter on Amazon. Here's How You Can Avoid Them

Did You Know? In 2014, Australian newscaster Karl Stefanovic wore the same exact suit during every broadcast for the entire year as a way of pointing out how unfairly his female coworkers were judged on their wardrobes (during the year long experiment, not a single viewer complained that he never varied his outfit). Geek Trivia The First Ice Volcano In Our Solar System Was Discovered On? Neptune → Triton → Titan → Pluto → Advertisement Download Leadership for Dummies (Valued at $19.99) FREE for a limited time Whether you're a teacher, preacher, coach or project leader, this book will provide you with a solid foundation on which to build. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Find a Style You Don’t See on the Home Tab in Microsoft Word How to Tweak and Rearrange Android’s Quick Settings Dropdown Steam In-Home Streaming vs. NVIDIA GameStream: What’s the Difference? I Got Scammed by a Counterfeiter on Amazon. Here’s How You Can Avoid Them Why Is My Phone Calling Itself? How to Make the Echo Dot Battery Powered (and Put It Anywhere You Want) How to Fix a Stuck Screen Saver in OS X How to Use Android Nougat's Split-Screen Mode How to Turn Your Windows PC Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot How to Make Your 120Hz or 144Hz Monitor Use Its Advertised Refresh Rate Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Broadcast Storm A Broadcast Storm (a.k.a. Network Storm) is when messages broadcast across a network generate responses, followed by even more responses to the original responses and so on, culminating in a snowball effect and network meltdown. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Earth-Like Planet Found Orbiting the Nearest Star ​Proxima B is just a few light years from home.​ [Popular Mechanics] NASA's Latest Mission Will Attempt To Land on an Asteroid—And Bring a Piece Home It's one thing to pull off the feat of landing on an asteroid in the first place, it's a totally different game to rip a chunk off and bring it home. [Motherboard] Scientists Invite Conspiracy Theorists to Check Out Alleged Mind-Controlling Weather Machine For decades, tin foil fashionistas have attributed a number of sinister happenings to the atmospheric research program known as HAARP, including hurricanes, earthquakes and even the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia. [Gizmodo] What's It Like On Our Neighbor, Proxima b? The newfound planet Proxima b is the closest planet outside our solar system ever discovered, and scientists think it might be amenable to life. But what would it be like to live on our nearest interstellar neighbor? [Space.com] How to Find a Style You Don’t See on the Home Tab in Microsoft Word By default, Microsoft Word does not display all the built-in styles on the Home tab or on the Styles pane. So, what if you want to use a style that you don't see? Read This Article → How to Tweak and Rearrange Android’s Quick Settings Dropdown If you swipe down from Android’s menu bar twice, you’ll get a nice panel of quick settings you can toggle with one tap. Want to hide some of these settings, move them around, or add new ones? You have a few choices. Read This Article → Steam In-Home Streaming vs. NVIDIA GameStream: What’s the Difference? Both Steam In-Home Streaming and NVIDIA GameStream allow you to stream games from a powerful gaming PC and play them on another device, bringing the power of your gaming PC to your living room or a slower laptop or tablet. But what’s the difference between them? Read This Article → I Got Scammed by a Counterfeiter on Amazon. Here’s How You Can Avoid Them Amazon, for all its conveniences, isn’t like walking into a traditional retail store. Amazon is a full marketplace that connects you not only to their own store, but to third-party sellers. This was driven home for me when recently bought one of the top mini PCs on Amazon and found it came with a pirated Windows license. Read This Article → Why Is My Phone Calling Itself? You hear your phone ringing and you look down to see who it is, when you notice that your own name shows up as the caller ID. Is it yourself calling from the future? Maybe just a glitch with your phone? The latter is far more possible, but there are also several other possibilities. Read This Article → How to Make the Echo Dot Battery Powered (and Put It Anywhere You Want) While Amazon offers a battery-powered version of the Echo in the form of the Echo Tap, it doesn’t have the always-listening capabilities that makes the original Echo and Echo Dot so great. However, you can run the Echo Dot on battery power and have it last for days–all you need is a USB battery pack. Read This Article → How to Fix a Stuck Screen Saver in OS X If your Mac’s screen saver freezes and doesn’t want to go away, don’t worry. Many other users have come across this problem, but there are a few ways to fix it. Read This Article → How to Use Android Nougat's Split-Screen Mode It’s amazing it’s taken this long, but Android 7.0 Nougat finally has the ability to run two apps on the screen at the same time. Read This Article → How to Turn Your Windows PC Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot Windows can turn your PC into a wireless hotspot, allowing it to share its wired or wireless Internet connection with other wireless devices. But how you set it up that depends on what version of Windows you’re running. Here’s how it all works. Read This Article → How to Make Your 120Hz or 144Hz Monitor Use Its Advertised Refresh Rate So you’ve purchased a monitor that offers a 120Hz or 144Hz refresh rate and plugged it in–great! But don’t stop there. Your monitor may not actually run at its advertised refresh rate until you change some settings and sort out your hardware. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Leadership for Dummies (Valued at $19.99) FREE for a limited time Whether you're a teacher, preacher, coach or project leader, this book will provide you with a solid foundation on which to build. Click here to download