March 4, 2025

Are you on Social Media? Tune in to learn about Scams on Facebook

Are you on Social Media? Tune in to learn about Scams on Facebook

Are you on social media? Scammers are on social media too hijacking and cloning accounts wanting to be your friend. Sometimes it is hard to tell if the friend request is a real account or a scammer's account.
In this episode we talk about different...

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Are you on social media? Scammers are on social media too hijacking and cloning accounts wanting to be your friend. Sometimes it is hard to tell if the friend request is a real account or a scammer's account.
In this episode we talk about different scams that have been found on Facebook and what you can do to protect yourself.

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Disclaimer: The information contained in this podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for individual professional / legal advice. The podcast information was carefully compiled from vetted sources and references; however, R.O.S.E. Resources / Outreach to Safeguard the Elderly cannot guarantee that you will not fall victim to a scam.

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a scam. Let's talk about scams. It's the must listen

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show for anyone who wants to protect themselves and their

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loved ones from scams. Every Tuesday at am Pacific time

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and her guests will provide valuable insights and practical tips

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on how to recognize and protect yourself from scams. And

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now here is your host, Joyce Petrowski.

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Welcome back everyone, I'm your host, Joyce Petrowski, founder and

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board president of Rose Resources Outreach to Safeguard the Elderly.

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You can find more resources on our website at Rosadvocacy

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You can sign up for our email newsletter and our

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in case you have a topic, a scam topic you'd

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like us to discuss on a future episode. But today

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I wanted to talk about social media. The majority of

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us are on social media, a lot of us are

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on more than one channel. But today I'm gonna talk

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about Facebook in particular. I found a really great article

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that was published by Norton LifeLock in November of twenty

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twenty four. It's titled twenty seven Facebook Scams and Tips

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to avoid them. So I'm going to go through these,

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and then afterwards, after I go through these scams, I'm

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going to talk about some different settings you can update

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on your Facebook account to help keep your stuff private.

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So first, I'm sure we've all had our Facebook count

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probably cloned, where a scammer sets up a profile and

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they use your pictures, they use your biographical information they

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want to make it look and sound like it's you,

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and then they have access to your friends, and so

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then they start friending, sending friend requests to your friends,

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or maybe commenting on your posts things like that. Sometimes

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your account can get hijacked where they actually are able

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to compromise your login credentials and the scammer actually takes

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over your Facebook account where then they are sending messages

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to your friends and you know, asking for money or

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trying to establish relationships and things like that. But here's

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some more specific scams in this Norton article. So the

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first one is clickbait. So that's really a scam that

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has a misleading headline. It's an exaggerated headline. It's all

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done to attract your attention. They could be trying to

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sell a product, just could be sensationalizing fake news. And

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then they in order to get you to click on something.

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That's their end goal is to get you to click

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on a link which you think you're actually going to

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be buying something and there isn't really there isn't anything

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there to buy or I'm sorry, there the link you

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click on, you think you're buying something, so you put

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your credit card information in or hopefully not your debit card.

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Hopefully you would be using a credit card, but you

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put it in and you know, now the scammer has

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access to your credit card. But also they could be

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installing malware or a virus that runs in the back

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of your computer and you might not know it's there,

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So be careful of you know, if you see something

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that looks too good to be true on Facebook, especially

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if it's an AD and it's a product you really want,

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you're going to want to go directly to that company's

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website and look on that company's website and see if

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they actually have that product you're looking for on sale

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and if that's you know, if it's an action and

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accurate AD that you're seeing on Facebook. Another one is

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the phishing scams. We've all heard about the phishing scams,

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and that's the pH is shi ng. It's where scammers

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are out there trying to get more information. You know,

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scammers have a little bit of information or a lot

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of information. Everybody's different as to what information is out there,

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but they're trying to build more information in your profile

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to take you know, for instance, to take over your

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identity and get some some loans in your name, get

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credit cards in your name, so you want to be careful.

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Sometimes this comes when you know there's this really cool

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survey and you're like, okay, yeah, I'll take that survey

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and I'm going to get this thing for like a

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dollar ninety nine. Or there's those things on Facebook that like,

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you're a friend of yours might have answered the questions

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and it came up and determined you know, that you

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had such and such type of personality or some thing

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with your personality, and they look fun, right, and it

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makes you curious. You want to put your information in

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and see what pops up, But you have to be

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really careful with those because scammers could be hiding behind

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those trying to again gather more information from you. You know,

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it could be answers to security questions that you might

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have on your bank account, and you know, you're not

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thinking about that because you're having fun, you know, answering

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those questions and you're excited. You kind of want to

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see what the results end up saying. So just like

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this can happen in emails and text messages and things

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like that, it can happen on social media platforms, so

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be very very careful about that, the false romances. I

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think we've all heard about the romance scam. And you know,

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like I said a couple minutes ago, scammers hang out

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on social media. There's a ton of scammers out there

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that have fake profiles and they're trying to befriend you.

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A lot of times they will start commenting on your post.

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In fact, I had that happened yesterday morning. I was

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getting ready for a presentation and I was looking I

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had a little bit of time, so I was looking

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on my phone and I was on Facebook, and I

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had this notification that somebody had commented on posts that

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I had commented on almost you know, probably about eight

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eight months ago. It was a father's somebody had posted

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a Father's Day post and said Happy Father's Day to them. Well,

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then this person that I don't know comments on mine

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and says, hey, you know, i'd like to be friends.

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Will you send me a friend request? Right? No, I'm

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not going to send you a friend request. So I

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just held my There was no links in the comments,

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so I held my finger down on it and it

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comes up and gives me options and you can report

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junk and then delete, or you can just delete it.

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You know, sometimes they'll comment on your post and they

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might go in there and saying, oh, I really love

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your photos. You know you're really pretty, and I think

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we could be good friends. I've tried to friend you,

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but it's not letting me. So will you send me

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a friend request? And you know it's you don't know

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the person and they just reached out out of the blue. No,

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you you don't want to be friends with them. Other

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times they're impersonating one of your friends and they're sending

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you a friend request. Well that's where you look at

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it and go, wait a minute, I think I'm already

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friends with them. So you go into your profile and

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you go down to your friend's list and you just

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search your friend's name and if it comes up, you're

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already friends. You know, that's a that's a cloned account,

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and you're going to want to let your friend know

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that their account's been cloned. But you're then, you know,

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delete the request. You can report it to Facebook as well.

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We've actually reported a handful of profiles, but Facebook has

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come back on all of them and said that they

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did not see where it was a it was the

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profile was harmful to anybody, so they were not going

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to take it down, so not you know, Facebook might

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not take the profile down. So that's why you got

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to be careful and protect yourself. Lots of people, you know,

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when they have some devastating medical condition with them or

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with their family, they might do these gofundmes and different

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things and they'll put them on Facebook and other social

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media accounts to raise money to help them with a

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medical cost. And while some of them out there are valid,

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there are some of them out there that are scammers

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are doing and they are just trying to get your

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money and there is no you know, medical devastating medical

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costs out there, so you want to be really careful.

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If your friend has donated money and then they're sharing

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it on their social media, their Facebook page, talk to

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your friends and say, do you know these people? You know?

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Do you know them? They are real? This is actually

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really happened. That's your way to verify what is going on.

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Some other ones are fake listings or free listings. They're

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going to lure you in with the promise of obtaining

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goods or services at a very low cost or no cost.

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But then inevitably, when you you know, you get through

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it and you think it's only been a dollar ninety

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nine or five ninety nine. There's all these other added

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fees that in order to get whatever it is, you

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have to pay all of these you know, added fees

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to it. So just be careful. Again, like I said

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earlier with those with that clickbait stuff, is you're going

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to want to go to the actual verified website of

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whatever company and make sure that they are in fact

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offering this discount spoofing attacks, so that's you know, we

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talked about where someone's impersonating a trust did person or

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a trust identity, so they could be they could have

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cloned your friend's account and they're impersonating your friend. You know,

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they go on scammers love to impersonate bigger companies, so

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I always I'm not picking on Amazon, but I always

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say Amazon because the majority of us have an Amazon

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account and scammers know that, so they're more likely to

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get you know, their scam is more likely to hit

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people who actually have Amazon accounts and then they might

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engage with it. So just be careful. You know you're

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going to want to go directly to your verified Amazon

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account and check things out. With that lottery scams, you know,

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fake prizes fake giveaways, lottery scams, all kinds of stuff

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like that. If there's something on there, you know before

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you enter it, before you play it, search it in

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the Internet search bar, put the information in there and

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put fraud or scam after it and see what comes up.

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You'd be surprised at how much information's out there, are

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already online about it. Kind of along the lines of

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the fake medical fundraisers, there's the charity and donation scams.

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As I tell people in the presentations, you know, scammers

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never let a natural disaster go to waste in their mind.

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So like the hurricanes that came through last year, the fires,

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you know, hurricanes on the East Coast, the fires in California,

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the fires that were in Hawaii a couple years back,

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all of that stuff, they take advantage of it, and

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they're going to impersonate charities or they might just come

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up with some fake charity name, all in the guise

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of trying to be that charity and trying to get

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you pull on your heartstrings to get you to donate.

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And one you might not ever know that you've been scammed,

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but they have your credit card information and then you

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know pretty quickly you're going to see that there's these

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other fraudulent charges on your credit card account. So the

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best things to do with the charity and donation scams

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is there's two ways you can verify a charity. So

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you can go to IRS dot gov. That's IRS dot gov,

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or you can go to charity navigator dot org and

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just type in charity search and when you get to

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that page, do not use the name of the charity.

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Use the charity's tax identification number, because sometimes charities names

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are a little bit different how they're recorded with the IRS,

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and we're a perfect example. So Rose, if you do

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it the way that's all over the website and our materials,

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capital E period. Well, IRS didn't like that, so they

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it's going to say there's no such charity. But if

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you put in our tax identification number, which is eight

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our website and you might even be able to click

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on and get copies of previously filed tax returns. But

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a donation that way, or if and on the charity's website,

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you can find the charity's phone number and you can

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call the charity with their verified phone number and you

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your money is ensured to go to a legitimate charity

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for the needs that you wanted to make the donation.

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Facebook Messenger. It's a nice way to if you didn't

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want to comment specifically, like when people are asking, you know,

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for specific referrals or something like that. The people might

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not not want to put people's phone numbers and email

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addresses on a public comment where everybody can see it.

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and so you go on to Messenger and you can

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talk to that person directly and give them the information.

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and they might decide to, you know, send you a

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message and you know, and this could be impersonating your

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friends is a good example. If they've cloned your friend's

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account and they're impersonating your friend, well, then they can

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send you a Facebook message just to you or maybe

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to a group of friends and start asking for money.

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of the ordinary, and friends normally don't ask for money,

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even if they have in the past legitimately asked you

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for money, it's always good to call your friend, you

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have their phone number, and verify what's going on before

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you want to give them anything. Pet scams, it's unfortunate,

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but you know a lot of a lot of people

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will you know, they they they breed Let's just say,

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you know dogs, for instance, they'll breed them and they'll

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have a litter of puppies and they're getting them all

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ready with all their shots, and then they'll list them,

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you know, on Facebook, the ones they have for sale

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and stuff like that. Well, scammers are doing the same thing.

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out there. So if you just search in the internet

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search bar pet scams, well, you're going to get some stories.

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paying for the dog, the puppy, and then they come

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back with, well, you know, there's some fees that the

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transport company is going to charge and so now you've

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got to pay these additional fees. And then they come

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back with, well, they're requiring a special crate, and so

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the crate is this much, and they show you a

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picture and you got to buy the crate, and you know,

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before you know it, you could be out four or

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five thousand dollars. So if someone is is advertising, you know,

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puppies for sale and it is some a puppy you're

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interested in getting, search that name of that person or

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the name of their company online and find their website

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and you could search them and put fraud or scam

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after it as well and find out if it is

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somebody with you know, a fraudulent post and stuff like that.

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So ticket scams, you know a lot of times scammers

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are out there pretending like they have tickets to these concerts,

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to these plays, the theater, a bunch of different things,

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and they'll try to sell them online. So if you

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want to buy tickets sporting events as well. Go to

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a verified company that sells tickets, and off the top

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of my head, you know Ticketmaster is a big one,

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so scammers could try to impersonate ticket Master as well,

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to buy buy your tickets. Rental scams. You know a

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lot of people that have vrbos or they have places

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that they that they want to rent. They might advertise

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them on Facebook, so you really want to be careful

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with that. Again, put the person's name in and and

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put rental scam or rental fraud and things like and

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see if anything pops you know, on the internet, search

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about it. Do your research on the person and the

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property that you know that they're advertising for rent. What

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I had mentioned earlier about the quizzes and the surveys,

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You've got to be very very careful. It's a it's

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a common way scammers collect personal information on people. Inheritance scams,

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you know, I see this more where you get a

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letter in the mail or an email saying that you

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have this long lost relative that passed away in your

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owed this huge sum of inheritance, but you have to

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pay some fees first.

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It's been on Facebook enough that you know, Norton LifeLock

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included it in this article, so be aware you could

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get that direct message right and you're just gonna want

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to again put the you know, put the name of

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the person in, put the situation in, and put frauder

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scam and see what pops up. If they claim to

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be from an attorney's office, then search the attorney's office

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name and find the verified website for the attorney or

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put the attorney the law firms name in and put

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fraud or scam and see what populates on there. There's

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stuff with modeling, you know, just like with any business,

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this one is specifically there's been a lot of fake

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modeling offers out there. You want to be very careful

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with those. Again, you want to research the company and

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you want to make sure that whatever it is job

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off or anything you're trying to do off of Facebook,

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that it is a legitimate company. We talked about cloned accounts.

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There's also investment fraud and loan fraud. You know, they

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might pray on individuals who are in need of financial assistance,

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are looking for favorable loan terms. You know, they might

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advertise the investment scam. You know, this is along the

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lines of the pig butchering scam, where they talk about

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this investment and they show you these investment fake investment statements.

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show you that they made like fifty percent return. You know,

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they're like the best, They make the best returns, more

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than anybody else has ever made. They're getting you excited.

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You want to make this money, and they're trying to

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get you to invest, and they go as far as

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showing you fake investment statements in your name. So if

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out of the blue, somebody's asking you to invest in something,

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you need to do your research, put the investment in,

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and put fraud or scam and see what pops up.

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I talked to a gentleman last year that this happened

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to him. But he always researches and he didn't know

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about bitcoin or cryptocurrency, and so when he did his research,

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this checklist came up about a pig butchering scam. And

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he read down the checklist and he's like, my gosh,

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this lady has done all of these things on the checklist,

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So he knew it was a scam, so do your research.

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We talked about fake jobs. You know scammers can pose

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his government agencies on Facebook as well in the commerce scams,

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you know, with jobs or buying and selling on Facebook marketplace.

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You know they can. This next one if fake two

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factor authentication code. You know you should not give out

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any surprise requests you get for the two factor authentication.

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We talk about this a lot. Your two factor authentication

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code is personal confidential information and you don't give it

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to anybody. So if you all of a sudden get it,

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if that's how you get them is via text, and

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you get a surprise text with the code and you

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haven't even asked for the code, just delete it because

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it's someone trying to get into one of your accounts.

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Payment apps again, you want to be careful when you're

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using those cash apps along with things on Facebook. On Facebook,

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be very very careful with that. If at all possible,

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you know, use a credit card or just you know,

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we'll use a credit card because they're more app to

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refund fraudulent charges. You can get fake coupon codes as well,

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So again, if somebody's offering a coupon code, go directly

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to the company's verified website and make sure that that

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is a valid coupon code. Malware attacks. We've talked about

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on how just clicking on links or clicking on to

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take a survey or something could actually install malware, video

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scams artificial intelligence. They can make the video sound exactly

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like someone or look exactly like someone, so you need

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to be extremely careful with that. So that's the information

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on a bunch of different things that can happen on Facebook.

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But now I want to talk to you about some

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different ways to make your Facebook account private. So you're

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going to want to go into your privacy settings. And

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what I'm going to explain to you is based on

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if you're looking at your Facebook like on your laptop

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or a desktop or something like that, is when you

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get into your profile, you have your picture up in

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the top right corner, and you click on that because

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there's like a little arrow pointed down, it's going to

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come up with some options. One of them is going

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to be settings, So you're going to want to click

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on the settings I think it's settings in Privacy and

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then click settings and then you scroll down on the

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left hand side and there'll be a section that says

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audience and visibility, And there's many different options when you

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get to audience and visibility. One of them is the

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second one down should read how people find and contact you.

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So if you click on that, it's going to come

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up and it's going to say your friends. It'll say

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who can send send you friend request? And like it

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could say everyone, or it could just if you if

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you click on that to open it up, it could

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it could give you a list of you know, everyone,

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which meaning the public, or it could be friends meaning

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friends of friends, or you could you know, uh, you

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can customize it, so you're gonna want to You're gonna

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want if you don't want anybody from the public to

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be able to friend request you, you're going to want

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to go in there and change it to a setting

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that that you're going to be able to to work with.

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But all the next one down says who can see

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your friend's list? And that's going to come down and

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again it'll say everyone public, which means anyone on or

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off Facebook could see it. You could say click on

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just your friends to mean only your friends on Facebook

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can see your friends list. You could say I only

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want specific friends to see it, or all friends accept

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for or you only want yourself to see it. There's

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a bunch of different options for that. It also talks about,

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you know, getting message requests. You can go in and

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tailor that as well. Another thing you can do. The

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next one down under the audience invisibility is post and

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you click on that. You know who can see your

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future post. Again, you can go in and say public,

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you want anyone to see it. You could say you

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only want your friends to see it, so you can

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make your account private. You can also in that limit

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who can post on your post, so you know you

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can allow or you can limit the past post right

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so you can allow a visual search on your post.

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You can allow comments, summaries on your post. You can

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really tailor it to make it as public as you

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want or private. Another one farther down in that list

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under audience in visibility is followers in public content. So

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first one comes up is who can follow me? Well,

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you have multiple options. You know, friends public and then

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you know who can see your followers Again, you can

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keep it public, change it to friends. Who can see

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the people and pages and lists that you follow? Who

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can comment on your public post?

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Who you know?

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Public post notifications, All of that stuff. You can tailor

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it all to be just your friends or just you,

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or have it open to the public. Another one's called

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profile and tagging. You can go in there and say

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who can post on your profile? Again, you can limit

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it to just your friends or can be opened up

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to the public. You can see what others post on

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your profile. If somebody's going to tag you, you can

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turn it on where you have to review the tags

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that people add before they appear on your Facebook page.

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So you'll get a notification that someone has tagged you,

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and you can go in and review it and then

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make a decision if you want to hide that post

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or if you want it to appear on your page.

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So this information under again. You click on your photo

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on the top right corner. There's a little arrow down

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button and you click on the settings in privacy and

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then settings again, and then look down on the left

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hand side and you'll see audience and Visibility and go

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down through those and see what's available for you. You

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can even block people on there as well. There's a

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lot of great information, a lot of great things on

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how you can turn on or turn off to make

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your Facebook profile more private so it's not open to

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the public. If you are having trouble getting into these

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settings and and changing them, you could talk to your

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trusted tech support person and have them help you navigate

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through it. So that's all I have for you today.

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Thank you for joining us, and don't wait too long.

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Get into your Facebook setting privacy settings and get your

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Facebook account lockdown so it's not open up to it's

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not open to the public. It's only open to your friends.

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And be careful when people are friend requesting you, commenting

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on your post offering things online. You have to verify

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everything and don't forget you're going to want to visit

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our website at Rosadvocacy dot org, follow us on the

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social media channels, sign up for our newsletters. We do

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one via email and one in the mail. You can

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sign up for one or both, and thank you for

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joining me today and until next week. Bye bye.

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Well that's all the knowledge for this episode. Tune in

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every Tuesday at eight am Pacific time on KFOURHD Radio

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at KFORAHD dot com as Joyce explores a variety of

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knowledge so you have the power to make scam protection

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your healthy habit, and until then, feel free to reach

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out to Joyce and let's talk about scams.