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Let's talk about scams. It's the must listen show for
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anyone who wants to protect themselves and their loved ones
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from scams. Every Tuesday am Pacific time on K four
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HD Radio, Joyce Petrowski, founder of Rose, and her guests
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will provide valuable insights and practical tips on how to
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recognize and protect yourself from scams. And now here is
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your host, Joyce Petrowski.
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Well, Hi, welcome, back everybody, So let's talk about scams.
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I'm your host, Joyce Petrowski, Founder and board president of
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Rose Resources Outreach to Safeguard the Elderly, where our mission
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is to prevent the financial exploitation and defrauding of the
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older adults through advocacy and education. The education we provide
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is a scam prevention through education platform. We have workshops
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where we educate the older adults on what to look
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for to be able to determine, be able to recognize
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a scam and then avoid falling victim. Our website is
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Roseadvocacy dot Org. Can find our social media channels on
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so you don't miss an episode. So today I want
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to talk about a new scam that's going around. It's
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regarding if you get an invite from a friend, an
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invitation to a party. Okay, so I'm going to use
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the word evite because it's coming electronically I'm not one
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hundred percent positive that the scammers are impersonating evite, but
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I'm just using it as a term here. So you
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get an evite to a party from someone you know,
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your friend, and you open it because you're interested, right,
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You're curious. Okay, I got invited to a party and
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you're asked to put a password in to see the invitation.
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So the evite.
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Company is a real company, but this evite is not
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coming from that company. The scammers are impersonating the company.
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So when you check to see if the company is real,
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like you can google the company to see if it's
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a real evite company, it shows that it's a real company,
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So it's just that it's not from them. They're being impersonated.
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So when you enter the password, they ask you for
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your address, but it's too late. Once you've entered the password,
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they have access to your email account and can gain access.
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To your computer in some cases.
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And then they're going to go and target everybody that's
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in your address book and contact them with a evite
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to a party from you. And since you, since it
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shows that it's coming from you, your your contacts, your
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friends are going.
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To want to open it.
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And some people might, you know, something might click when
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it's like, Okay, why do I have to put a
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password in? Other people might be like, well, I have
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an account with this company, so yeah, I have to
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put my password in, you know, as my log in
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so I can go in and look at it. And
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so the cycle just keeps continuing and continuing with this
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impersonation scam, but then also being able to access your
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email account, which then gives them access to all of
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your contacts and all of your emails, which sometimes could
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have some personal information. Sometimes we send credit card information
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over our email. If you just think about all the
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different types of information that you might send over your email.
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But then it's very possible that they could gain access
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over your computer, which is going to be even more
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detrimental because if you log in too sensitive accounts, let's
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say financial accounts on your computer, and if they're in
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the background watching, well, then they can see your logins
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to your accounts. So you want to be very very
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careful with this. If you get an EVITE from somebody,
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and it's not just the invitation the electronic invitation company evite,
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there's other companies out there that they can be invite
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companies that they can be impersonating as well. If you
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see that email come through and it's a party invitation,
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check with your friend or the contact whoever it is.
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First use the verified channels. That's your friend, you're going
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to have their verified phone number, call them directly and
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find out if this actually is a legitimate invite from
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your friend before you get in and start looking around.
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That's going to safeguard you from having somebody take over
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your email account and or worse your computer. So this
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information just came into me last week, and they're the person.
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That scent it.
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Is still gathering information on this email scam, so once
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as I get more information on it, we'll be putting
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more information out, not only on this radio show, but
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we're going to be putting it out on on social media.
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So you're gonna want to make sure you if you're
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on Facebook, follow us on Facebook, if you're on LinkedIn,
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we're there, Instagram, we post just about every day, and
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we're going to have this information on social media as well.
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If anybody has has seen this scam come around, we're
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very interested to know more about it, so please shoot
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us an email comment on the Facebook post regarding this
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radio show, give us a call and let us know,
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be very interested to see how they you know, see
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the actual email that comes in if you still have
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it all right, now, we're going to move on to
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there's four FBI public service announcements that we're going to
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go over, dating back. The first one's the end of June.
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I'm going to see here if I can share my screen,
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there we go. So the first one is June twenty seventh,
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and it's titled Criminals posing as legitimate health insures and
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fraud investigators to commit health care fraud. See if I
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can't put this up here in front of me. So
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when the FBI puts out these public service announcements, they're
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seeing an uptick in these types of scams and frauds
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that are going on, and so they put these out
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to warn people. So they're definitely seeing an uptick in this.
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So the FBI.
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Warns about this impersonation scam where where criminals are impersonating
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health insurers, so health insurance companies and they're investigative team members.
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They're sending emails and text messages to patients and healthcare providers,
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disguising them as legitimate communications from trusted healthcare authorities, and
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the messages are going to pressure victims into disclosing protected
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health information, medical records, personal financial details, or providing reimbursements
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for alleged service over payments or non covered services. So
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be careful with that. This not only can steal your
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personal information, your medical information, but it can also steal
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your money. Like with non covered services, they could say
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something's not covered and you owe money for it. So
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tips to protect yourself Always be suspicious when you get
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those unsolicited emails, text messages, phone calls. If you did
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not initiate it, be suspicious about it.
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It's unfortunate. I know, I know.
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When I grew up, well, we didn't have email when
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I was growing up, but when it did come into play,
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we had that belief where we could just trust and
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so we just automatically trusted the email and for a
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certain amount of time, you know, we could do that,
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that whole trust, but verify and we could verify later
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if we wanted to, and ninety nine percent of the time.
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We were good.
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Well, Unfortunately the world is so much different today that
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we can't just throw that trust out and just automatically trust.
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We have to be suspicious and that's what we call
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that healthy skepticism. Skepticism can be very healthy when you're
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trying to protect yourself and your finances. So have that
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healthy skepticism and just pause, ask yourself, why am I
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getting this email? Why am I getting this phone call?
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Why am I getting this text message?
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Question it?
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And if it is actually from your health insurance company,
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well pull your health insurance card out and they're going
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to have a customer service number on it. Call that
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customer service number and find out what's going on. That's
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your way to verify what's going on. And be very
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careful if you are if you open the email, that
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you don't click on any links. And I know if
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you're looking at emails on your phone, it can be
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very hard to not click on a link because you
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have a very small screen that you're working with. So
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just be very very careful with that. I know sometimes
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if we go to use our finger to scroll scroll
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down to read the email, sometimes it could hit the
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wrong place and you've clicked on a link.
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Which is another reason.
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Why you should always have that good antivirus software and
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that anti malware software on your phone. A lot of
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people have it on their laptops, their desktops, their iPads.
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But your phone is a mini computer and you need
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to have it or a mobile I should say a
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mobile computer. You need to have that on your phone
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as well, because having that software, if it was a
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bad link, chances are that software is going to come
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up and warn you that this is a malicious site.
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Are you really sure you want to go here? So
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it's a safeguard you can put in place. Always use
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strong passwords and multi factor authentication with all of your accounts,
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and I should say not only strong passwords, but different
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passwords as well.
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And keep your the antivirus.
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Software updated and your operating system updated as well.
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The next one is let me see, let Me move here?
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Is this one public service announcement came out on July third.
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It's called Fraudsted's target US stock investors through investment clubs
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as accessed on social media and messaging applications. So criminals
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are out there trying to get you to maybe join
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an investment club, get you to invest in stock. They're
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contacting you through messaging applications social media so like Facebook
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is one in particular, it has the messaging app with it,
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so maybe they get a hold of you on the
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messaging app because maybe they've they've cloned someone else a
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friend of yours account, and you received a friend request
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from your friend and you just automatically accepted. I actually
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just had that happen to a family member this morning.
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They were like, oh, oh, I think someone's cloned so
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and So's account, and I said, yeah, they did. I
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already let them know about it. And they're like, I
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accidentally accepted that friend request, so they had to go
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in and unfriend them or unfriended that fake account. But
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that's that's a common way that they'll get you on
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Facebook and then they message you and then they want
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to take it over to a more secure messaging app
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like WhatsApp. And I'm sure there's other ones out there.
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But let's see what this public service announcement says. So,
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so far in twenty twenty five, and this is only
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six because this came out on July third, so six
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months into the year, the FBI has seen at least
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a three hundred percent increase in victim complaints referencing what's
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called ramp and dump stock fraud from twenty twenty four.
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So let's see what that ramp and dump stock fraud
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is let's see. The scheme known as ramp and dump
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stock manipulation targets US investors through online engagement, often via
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social media advertisements or messages promoting an investment club or
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of fellow investors, some of which may be bots or
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fake accounts. And so let's think about that. We've heard
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of the celebrity scams, right, you get contacted by a celebrity. Well,
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with artificial intelligence, now it's really easy for the scammers
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to clone a celebrity's voice and use that or even
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have you know, show.
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You in the forefront.
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The celebrities make it look like it's the celebrities picture
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or that you're talking to the celebrity, but it's really
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them in.
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The background, and that's that's their deep fake.
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you know, with this.
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So let's see where we're at here.
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These promotions typically direct victim to secure messaging apps where
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the group operates. So a lot of scammers like to
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go to WhatsApp because it is more secure than text
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messaging or Facebook messaging.
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All of that.
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To appear credible, the scammers may impersonate legitimate brokerage firms.
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We've talked about this impersonation scam.
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A lot.