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for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for
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individual professional legal advice. The podcast information was carefully compiled
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from vetted sources and references. However, Rose Resources outreach to
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safeguard the elderly cannot guarantee that you will not fall
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victim to a scam. Let's talk about scams. It's the
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must listen show for anyone who wants to protect themselves
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and their loved ones from scams. Every Tuesday am Pacific
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time on K four HD Radio, Joyce Petrowski, founder of Rose,
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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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Hi, everyone, welcome back. So let's talk about scams. I'm
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Joyce Petrowski, founder of Rose Resources Outreach to Safeguard the Elderly.
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You can find more information on our website at Roseadvocacy
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dot org and on the homepage if you scroll to
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the bottom, you'll find where you can sign up for
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our email newsletters and or are mailed newsletters. Those come
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out monthly, and you'll find our social media links. I
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believe those are up at the top of the page.
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So today I want to talk about how can you
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determine the safety of a website. There have been article
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written that scammers have created hundreds of thousands of fake websites.
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This is just part of how they've evolved over the years,
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and they you know, they'll they'll set up fake websites
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to impersonate legitimate companies to make you think you're on
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the legitimate company website. So a couple of the things,
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so the U r L which is the actual website address,
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the http S colon to backslashes, and then the www
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dot Roseadvocacy dot org, so you can check that to
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make sure it has an S, so it's the h
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T T P and then an S which means it's
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secure that the owner of the website would have had
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to have purchased a security certificate or security license from.
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And I'm going to use go Daddy as an example
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because that's where I purchased Rose Advocacy domain from and
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then got the security uh certificate through them as well.
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There's also sometimes you'll see a padlock icon and I'm
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going to share my screen so I can I can
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show you guys this, So give me just one second here.
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Let's see here, all right, So I'm going to go
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to the website and I'm going to type in Roseadvocacy
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dot org, and that's our that are This lock here
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is not the padlock that I'm talking about. That happens
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to be our logo. But when I type it in,
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it goes you see our logo. Right there is a lock.
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But you'll see these They look like toggle switches. One
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goes to the left, one goes to the right. That
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is where you would click on. It says view site information.
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So if I click on it, it shows you the website
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and then it says connection is secure. But you could
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go a little bit farther there you see the padlock
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connection is secure, and it explains what that is, you know,
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and you can learn more about that. It says the
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certificate is valid. So that's one way you can look
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at it. Now, if you go back, you can also
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go in and you can look at a whole bunch
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of information on cookies and site data and and all
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of that. I'm not going to get into that today,
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but that is something you can go, you know, farther
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into here. It tells you what cookies they're used to
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remember you, for example, to sign you in or personalize ads,
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and to manage cookies for all sites. You can go
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right to your settings. And we talk about this a
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lot in the presentations is whenever you get on a website,
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it usually will come up and say we you must
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either accept all the cookies. Sometimes it'll say, uh, manage
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the cookies or accept only necessary cookies. Well you really
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should accept only necessary or you could go in to
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manage and then it'll show you all the cookies and
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make sure all of them are turned off except for
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the strictly necessary. And then this is just a little
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bit more information on manage on device, site data, and
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then site settings again, you could go in here and
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you can look at all the different you know the
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different settings for the website. So that is up here
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as the I'm gonna exit out of here. This looks
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like a little toggle switch here, one to the left,
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one to the right. Sometimes you'll see a padlock. Again,
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if I click on this, you'll see the padlock here
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showing connection is secure. So that's a quick way to
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look to make sure that yes, this security certificate is
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valid and that the site is listed as secure. But
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as scammers evolved, you know, when they get these they
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buy these domains to put these fake websites on. They
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could also buy a security certificate. Right, it's not that
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expensive to buy a domain, and it's not that expensive
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to buy the security certificate. So I think now that
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they know a lot of people start looking for that
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pad luck that they're looking for the HTTPS to show
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that it's secured. That they're upping their game and they're like, okay,
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well we're going to have this on our site too
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to make people believe that it is a secure site.
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So another thing you can do is you can examine
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the content. Right, and this was an old way where
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you could look for you know a lot of grammatical
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errors or spelling, awkward phrasing, all kinds of stuff like that.
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But we've talked a lot about artificial intelligence and AI
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and that that right there, like the chat GBT that
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helps them not have all those grammatical errors, those misspellings,
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all of that stuff. It's going to give them everything
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they need to, you know, put on on the website.
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you can or not again sorry, but you can look
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for contact information, you know, on on the website and
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you can see ours down here at the bottom. You'll
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see where we have our mailing address, we have our
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phone number, our eFax, our email address, you know, a
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bunch of different links here for things. We have our disclaimer,
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who designed and is hosted tact information as well. It
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just kind of helps it seem a little bit more legitimate.
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that you can get on and use to kind of
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take it a step further to look at the safety
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or the security of a website. So I'm going to
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get into those and this is URL void or web
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of trust. I'm going to get into this URL void
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here and we're going to do this who is look up?
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And I believe I'm saying that correctly, and I can.
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The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is the
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regulator for the who is database of domain names. They
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go all the way back to nineteen eighty two, so
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they've got a lot of data. The information that you're
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going to find in that database can vary from domain
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registrar to main registrar, but you should be able to
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see the date somebody registered their webs their domain, their website,
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if it's expired, the last time the domain was updated.
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Who the registrar are is, like who the registrar is?
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Like I explained before, mine was go Daddy, so that's
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one of them. And then you could probably see the
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owner of the domain. But you're not going to see
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a lot of personal identifiable information. They had some GDPR
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regulations which made them the who is not show personal
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I personally identifiable information in there. So you're going to see.
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When we do Rose Advocacy's website and look at it,
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you're going to see a lot of information that says redacted,
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and that's because they are not allowed to make that
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publicly available to everyone. So let's go back up here
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and you can tell I'm just going to click here
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because I have already typed it in once, so Roseadvocacy
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dot org. You don't need to put the www. You
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just put the domain name, which is Roseadvocacy. And then
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we're a nonprofit, so it's dot org. And then here
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I have to click because I'm not a robot, and
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we're going to look it up. And so you're going
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to see here where it has the domain name Roseadvocacy
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dot org. The registry ID here it is is who's
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the registrar. I got the domain at GoDaddy, so you're
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going to see that come up there and the URL
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for them. And then the last date that it was
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updated was it looks like November twenty fifth, twenty twenty four.
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You're so that was almost six months ago. Creation date.
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You're going to see that it was. This website was
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purchased August twenty seventh, twenty twenty one. It expires August
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twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. I'll have I have to
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go in every year and renew the domain and pay
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the fee, and so once I do that in the
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next couple months, you'll see that this will get updated
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to August twenty seventh, twenty twenty six. You're going to
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have some information on go daddy, who is the registrar
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there if you wanted to report abuse, that's their email
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number or their email address, their phone number. And then
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you're going to get down here and you're going to
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find all this information the registrant, the name, the organ
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the organization, but the street, the city, all of this,
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the phone. All of this stuff is redacted and that
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was because of those new regulations which this is personally
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identifiable information, and so they have all this redacted. But
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again you can find a lot of information right here
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at the beginning. To find out if it's a you know,
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a brand new you're going to be I want to
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be a little bit suspicious if if the creation date,
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if it's a brand new website, maybe if it just
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doesn't get updated at all, just you know, kind of
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look it out. You look it over, and you can
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also you've got the email address, the website for the
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for the registrar to kind of check them out to
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make sure that they're that they're good. All right. So
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then let's look at the next thing here is let
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me go back to this PDF we can use again.
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This is a U R L void dot com. We're
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going to go back into that, and this is going
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to kind of look up uh the uh. You can
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go in and again type in the domain, the website
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address or the domain and then scan website and you're
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going to come up and it's going to show the
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website address. You're going to look at it. The last
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analysis was done three months ago. I can click here
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to have it to re scan, but there was zero
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out of thirty nine detection counts. You can see it
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matches right here with what it said in the who
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is directory that this domain was registered on August twenty seventh,
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twenty one. You could go into the who is look
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up right through here you could check out the DNS
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records as well. Gives you the IP address. This happens
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to be the website of the company that hosts Rose Advocacy.
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Website going to tell you the server locations in the
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United States, which makes sense, and then you're going to
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come down here. And this is interesting. So this is
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where this website scans all of these different engines here
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and they're going to tell you if they find anything.
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And that zero out of thirty nine I think it
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was right up here. All of this is nothing found,
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Nothing found. On all these different Now if you're interested,
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you can go in here underview more details and it's
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going this one here the fake sites list the artist
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against four one nine. So it'll have a site name,
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it'll say active date added, updated, all of that, and
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so you can go through it'll tell you exactly, you know,
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what the what the site name is and all of that.
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So this is a fake sites list if you want
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to go in and view all of these, you know,
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to kind of check them out. It looks like there's
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one hundred and seventy thousand and five hundred and sixty
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four on this, So I'm going to get out of
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there and go back here again. You can go all
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the way down pick another one right here, let's view
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more details on this one. Well, that says that might
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just be let's see. Let me go pick another one bitdefender.
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Let's go into that. We haven't seen any so bitdefender
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is looking at the website. They haven't seen any suspicious
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activity from this website. So that's great. So again that's
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just another way you can go in and check out
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the reputation and how safe the website is. Now there's
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also it says check for reviews you can, you know,
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look on Google reviews. You know, you can look on
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the website to see if there's testimonials. Kind of just
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helps to help you to gauge the credibility of the website.
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There's also this Google Transparency Report, so you can see
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the safety rating of a website from Google. So I'm
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going to go in here and I'm going to type
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in the Rosadvocacy dot Org and hit enter to search.
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So the information was last updated on May thirteenth. Site
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safety can change. The site safety can change over time,
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so check back for updates. But as of this second
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they found no unsafe content found. So that's another way
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through the Google Transparency Report that you can check things