CALL SECURITY! Why You Need a VPN for Travel!

hi my name is Nicole Welcome to my

channel travel to money in this video I

want to talk to you about why you need a

VPN for travel I'll explain what a VPN

is how it can help protect you how you

can use it to access Services when

you're not in your home country and how

you might just be able to use it to save

a little money if you are new here I

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have fun on the road to financial

Independence I have traveled the world I

own a couple of houses in Spain and I'm

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this journey no matter where you are

starting from okay let's jump in and

talk briefly about what a VPN is VPN

stands for virtual private Network okay

so what does that mean well you know how

when you have your internet set up at

home and then you can name your Wi-Fi

and set a password for it so that

neighbors or people passing by your

house can't just log into your network

well that means that you have a private

Network it's secure okay so if your home

network that has a password for just you

and your family is secure what does an

unsecure Network look like well the

easiest examples are public Wi-Fi spots

like Starbucks or maybe when you're at

the airport a lot of the time your phone

will warn you that you are joining an

unsecure Network now if you're like me I

never really cared I just wanted to

access Wi-Fi but I didn't know what

being on an unsecure Network meant

several years ago I was chatting with

one of my co-workers who was pretty well

versed in the it space he said most

people would be shocked to know how

unbelievably simple it is for a very

amateur hacker to get access to any

information when they're sharing the

same Wi-Fi unfortunately a few years

later a few of us at my job learned this

the hard way now it's always hard to

pinpoint how someone hacks into a system

you don't know if it's something that

you access at a Starbucks or if it's a

company who had your information and

then they got hacked but here are some

things that either happened to me happen

to co-workers or happen to friends of

mine my credit card number and

information was somehow retrieved and I

had fraudulent charges on my card

someone else I know had their email

hacked and this might not sound that

major but this is what they did they

went through the person's email and read

specific messages about money transfers

so they knew how to communicate just

like this person then they changed the

settings to where anyone sending

messages to this person would

automatically go to a hidden folder so

that they wouldn't be able to realize

that their email had been hacked then

they started sending messages with

wording like this person requesting the

completion of money transfers this was

pretty Advanced it took a while to

figure out and unwind what they had done

fortunately there was a tell but my

friend was lucky because in most other

instances it wouldn't have been

noticeable another friend of mine had an

Instagram account with over 10 and

followers someone hacked into her

Instagram somehow changed the password

and unfortunately Instagram doesn't have

a good way to retrieve these kinds of

accounts they were blackmailing her for

money and asking her to make a transfer

in order to get her account back

literally holding it for ransom she had

to start her Instagram account all over

again this was a couple of years ago and

she still doesn't have even half the

amount of followers all of these are

reasons that you need a VPN if you ever

want to use public Wi-Fi again due to

some of the situations that we faced my

job provided a VPN for us and required

that we use it anytime we are accessing

company information especially when

using any public Wi-Fi as it turns out

ever since we started using this one

company who I will link below in the

description we've never had a security

issue again now will it guarantee that

you will never have an account hacked no

but it will guarantee that you don't

have one hacked because you're using

public Wi-Fi Now Security in my opinion

opinion is the number one reason that

you need a VPN if you're traveling but

it's not the only reason the next thing

I want to talk about is accessing

accounts while you travel what do I mean

by this well let me give you some

examples when I took off on my first bit

of long-term travel I was in Paris I was

running my house as an Airbnb in Florida

and my guests emailed me with a

suggestion about a few items that would

be nice to have in the house I actually

thought their ideas were great and

decided to order them for the house from

my Amazon account well I had no idea the

headache this would cause I guess Amazon

thought that someone had hacked my

account because they could see that I

was ordering from Paris they completely

shut my account down I couldn't log in I

couldn't see anything I had to spend a

couple of hours on the phone with them

trying to sort it out and get my account

restored they also didn't seem to be

able to advise me on how to complete an

order from Paris without triggering the

fraud system again then it hit me I

should try on another device but this

time time I should use the VPN if you

don't already know when you use a VPN at

least with the VPN company that I use

when you open it it will show you a list

of locations and how fast they are

working at that moment when you turn it

on to apps websites or even hackers it

makes it look like you are logging on

from a network somewhere else in the

world and you get to pick the location

there are several countries listed as

well as U.S states I realized that I

could turn on the VPN make it look like

I was in Florida and successfully place

the Amazon order I couldn't believe it

it worked not only did it work for an

account like Amazon but it also worked

when using some streaming services if

you aren't already aware if you use a

streaming service like Netflix for

example they have different rights to

different shows in different countries

so I was watching episodes of Frasier

when I was in France but then when I

went to Italy that show wasn't available

and I couldn't continue with the series

I was watching enter VPN now a lot of

these apps have figured out how to tell

where you are even when you're using a

VPN so it doesn't work with every app

and website but it does work for some

and can really save you some hassle when

traveling well I've told you about how

that can really be a convenient but

there may also be a way that it can save

you some money I've only used this

method once and I think there could be

some healthy debate about the ethics of

it but for some search engines you can

also use a VPN to get lower prices on

things like flights for example flight

search engines and Airlines know that a

person in or from the US will probably

pay more more for a flight than a person

from a developing country who may not

have the same Financial Resources even

Uber does this they will charge One

customer more than another if they think

that customer is likely going to be

willing to pay more so you can use your

VPN to make it look like you're in

another country and see if you can find

those same flights for Less to me it's

not worth it if you're only going to

save a couple of dollars once I was able

to use this method to save about a

hundred dollars on a flight it took a

bit of poking around but I was able to

figure it out in my case I paid for the

flight in a different currency and could

see what the currency exchange was going

to be I use a USAA credit card that

doesn't charge me fees for purchasing in

another country and currency so that's

also something to consider like I said

this isn't something I've used regularly

but it's certainly an option depending

on the site you're using and how they

track devices and locations I'd love to

know what you think about the ethics of

it I'm not sure I think that Airlines

and other companies should charge

different prices for the same flights or

Services just because they think one

person will pay more than the other but

does using the VPN Advantage exploit

those who have less I don't see the

direct link but I'm open to the fact

that I could be missing something and if

you think I am please tell me just

please find a way to do it with kindness

some companies also offer things like

streaming services for less for example

my best friend is from Portugal and she

also has residency or citizenship in the

UK as well plus bank accounts and both

while we were traveling the world there

was a show we wanted to watch that was

on a streaming service that would

usually cost thirty dollars per month in

the US and you could only get it as an

add-on to another kind of subscription I

don't remember if it was offered in the

UK or in Portugal but she was able to

get the service for just seven euro per

month which is less than 10 US dollars I

was like wow now not everyone can do

that because I think you'd have to use a

European bank but we were able to use

the VPN to allow us to log into the

account no matter which country we were

in it baffled me that the very same

service with the very same shows is

offered to other people for less than

one third of the price now this was

several years ago and a lot has changed

in streaming services I just think it's

important to know that depending on

where you are in the world or where it

looks like you are at in the world can

really change the price you pay for

different Services anyhow I still think

the main reason you need a VPN is for

security and the conveniences when you

travel are definitely a perk too like I

said I've got an affiliate Link in the

description for the VPN I have used for

years you can protect your accounts for

less than the cost of a cup of coffee

every month I think they're the best VPN

service for a lot of reasons but I

really like the fact that they don't

record or store any of your browsing

data they are 100 open source making

them secure and transparent they have

built-in ad blocking which protects you

from harmful sites and ads and gives you

faster browsing and they have 24 7

support available whatever you do just

don't ever get on public Wi-Fi again

with without the support of a VPN

that rhymed well thanks for watching

stay safe and secure out there I can't

wait to see where your dreams will take

you