When someone asks you for help, say yes unless it will harm you or your family.

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Then one day out the blue, this person reaches out to you and asks for your help.

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For example, if someone from "IT support" calls you and asks for your password so they can help fix your problem, how do you know they haven't called everyone else in the building first until they found you who has really got a problem?

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