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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 to let's talk about scam some
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Joyce Petrowski, founder and board president of Rose Resources Outreach
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to Safeguard the Elderly, where we have a scam prevention
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through education program where we bring scam prevention techniques and
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give you the tools to be able to recognize scams
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and avoid falling victim to these scams. You can find
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our website at Roseadvocacy dot org, where you'll find all
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of our social media links. On the homepage, scroll all
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to sign up for newsletters. We send one in the
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send one via email, and then every Tuesday morning at
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nine fifteen in about twelve minutes thirteen minutes, you'll get
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tip Tuesday email that has a tip on it. Some
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people might already know the tip, and that's great, But
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what it does is it help build a scam prevention
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through your healthy skepticism and your scam prevention habits.
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It helps make it a habit.
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The more you see it, the more you keep it
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top of mind, so that way when you are contacted,
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you're going to be better app to recognize that it's
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a scam. And avoid the avoid engaging with the contact.
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Excuse me, this is probably going to be a shorter
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one than normal. Today you probably tell losing my voice
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and hopefully I don't start coughing during this, but we're
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going to give it a shot. So today we're going
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to talk about holiday online shopping scams and charity scams too,
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scams that happened to really ramp up over the holidays.
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As you know, we had Thanksgiving last Thursday, and then
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Friday was Black Friday, so there's a lot of shopping.
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I think it was originally meant people were going in
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the stores, but a lot of people shop online. Then
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Saturday was Small Business Saturday, and yesterday was Cyber Monday,
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which was meant for all the online shopping. And today's
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Giving Tuesday is for all the charities out there. It's
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a worldwide platform for people to donate to their favorite charity.
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You can find out all of our information on our
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website if you want to make a donation again Roseadvocacy
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dot org. So let's go to the online shopping. I
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think today in today's world, a lot of people, for
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a variety of different reasons, they do a lot of
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shopping online. And there are a lot of fake websites
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out there. Scammers. They have thousands of fake websites that
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they've created. We've talked before about how much money they're making.
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They're taking some of this money and they're reinvesting it.
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It's not that expensive to buy a domain, and they
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don't have to contract out with somebody to build the
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website because they've already got the technical people they are
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working for them that can build the website. And they're
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going to impersonate a lot of larger companies, and you know,
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you really have to look at some details and know
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what to look for to determine, you know, if this
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is really a fake website. So we're going to go
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over a few ways that you can tell, and I'm
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going to share my screen. Hold on one second, it's
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been a while since I've done this. Here we go, No,
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that's not it, share screen. There we go, entire screen,
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all right, So I am sharing the screen. So what
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we're going to do first is I went in and
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I typed in list of fake online websites for online
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shopping and Express VPN. This just happens to be the
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company that I have a subscription to that I for
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their VPN services, which is virtual Private network, and they
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did this article. Let's see they did it, it says
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back in twenty twenty three, but it's been updated because
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they've updated it with list of scam websites in twenty
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twenty five, so they've gone through.
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They kind of give you some what are scam websites? Right?
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They're there for deception and impersonations. They want to solicit
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personal information, they want to exploit your finances. They might
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put malware on your devices, and they're going to use
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social engineering tactics, which again is they create that false
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sense of credibility and they're basically using your good nature
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against you to deceive you into giving them what they want.
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So how do they work those phishing attacks, fake shopping websites,
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distributing malware, They could have fake profiles on social medias.
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They'll even do search engine ads, and they have bots
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that will flood the comment sections with links to fake sites.
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I actually see some of those comments on our mostly
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on our Facebook is where I see them, and people
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will put in the comments about well, you know, I
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was victimized here and I went to this person on
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this website and they really helped me, and it's a
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bot doing it and they're just taking you to a
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fake site. I tried to delete those as much as
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I can when I do see them. So they're going
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to list here ten different types of scam websites again,
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phishing websites, fake shopping, malware distribution websites, tech support scams,
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all different. We're going to get into charity scams, selling
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fake tickets, they're going to clone legitimate websites. And so
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they actually came up with a list here, and this
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one basically said, here's a list of the top suspected
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fake websites to avoid this Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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But they're still good to look at even though those
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two days are over with. And actually I've got emails
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this morning that some companies have extended their Cyber Monday
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sales through today. But these are some ones that they've
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listed that are fake. They're malicious sites, and you could
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go through here and look at all these different ones.
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They're going to tell you why they have a low rating,
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poor customer service, they don't have a lot of contact information,
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new websites, bargain basement prices that too good to be true. Thing,
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here's one impersonating Tiffany. It's not the official Tiffany and
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Company websites. You know, one of the most significant indicators
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that is a scam is a clear warning from the
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genuine Tiffany and Company. The official website explicitly states that
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their products are exclusively sold through their official country specific
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platforms and they only work with reputable platforms like farfetch
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and netaporter as outside sellers. They don't have functioning social
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media links, suspicious payment processing. It's a very young domain.
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It's only been around for a couple of years. Some
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of these I've never heard of before. But there are
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so many different If you just go to do like
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a Google search for a specific product, there are so
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many different online shopping sites that come up, and you
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know they might actually have a legitimate picture of from
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the legitimate website, because sometimes those are easy enough to
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copy and then paste on.
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The fake website.
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Here's one myfaceboxer dot com, and I'm sure there is
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a legitimate websites that sells boxers and socks and stuff
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like that with I've seen a lot of them recently
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where you can get your like on pajamas, your pets
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picture and stuff like that. When scammers see that a
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website is popular and a lot of people buy from
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it and they're posting just record profits and sales and
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stuff like that, well then it's an incentive for them
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to want to.
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Impersonate that site.
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So you can go down through a bunch of these.
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But what I wanted to do was, so here's bed
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Bath and Beyond and they have bed Bath Clothes and
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close as c l o s e versus with store
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closing right, and I believe now all the stores might
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actually be closed. I'm not sure if they actually do
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anything online with bed Bath and Beyond, but you could
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put this without the parentheses here. You could just do
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bedbath clothes dot com. And I'm going to search it
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and I'm going to.
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Say, is bed bath close dot com a legitimate website?
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And I'm gonna just see what comes up.
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Immediately it comes up as a scam website that impersonates
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bed Bath and Beyond. So you can do this with
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any website, but you want to make sure you put
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is or something in front of it, because if you
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just go to typebeedbathclothes dot com in your search bar,
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it's going to if you don't have any antivirus or
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antimoware on your device, it might actually take you to
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that website and then you might get some malware or
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a virus on your device, which again another reason why
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you should always have a strong antivirus anti malware on
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all your devices, especially your phone, because.
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It is a mobile computer and we do.
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A lot of online shopping on our phones. Not sure
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if you can use your current subscription, just call the
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company or log in through their official website into your
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account and see if you have an extra device that's
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not being used on there. So that's one way you
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could go. In another way you could do it is.
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I got to.
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Find the url void and I did a segment on this,
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probably in the summer sometime, I think, and showing you
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how to go in and look at things. So you
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put the website here, Bedbathclothes dot com scan website and
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it's gonna come up and it's going to say detection counts.
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Six out of forty one places detected had detections. It's
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only been around for a year. Server location is in
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the Netherlands. So you come down here and all of
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these first six here. Bitdefender is a popular one, have
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detected that it is, so I'm going to hit that
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it's a bad site. So I'm gonna hit view more details.
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Stop. This website is not safe.
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It's classified as fishing, contains malware that may harm your computer,
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pretends to be you know this a variety of different reasons.
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It could host an gro scam, it could be pretend
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to be a financial institution. They highlighted this one here
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that it was fishing. But these are some other things
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that fake websites could could be doing.
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So that was really quick being able to tell on
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that one.
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You can go into these other ones for more detail.
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lot of technical details that you really have to understand
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what it is that they're talking about. But you could
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always you could always look it up. Let's see there
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are let's.
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See this is this is one.
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This is an article from Forbes that came up and
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it was written on June eleventh about do not shop
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on any in any website that's on this list.
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And so they have.
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The list of brands being in personated as extensive. Look
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at all these Amazon, Costco, Bath and Bodyworks, Nordstrom, Saxo,
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Fifth Avenue, Low's LL Bean, Tommy Bahama, Rolex Brooks, Running, Birkenstock, Crocs,
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Sketcher's Total Wine. All of these are big companies that
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most of them look to be global companies or at
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least sell all throughout the United States. But you can
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just look at all of these companies and ge appliances, right,
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I mean trying to look at some other ones that
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I might be able to Ravensburger, puzzles, nurseries, shoes, golf,
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just about anything, yoga, beauty products, food, wine, you know, Instahart,
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a whole Deluthe trading, auto parts, Party, Dollar General, a
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whole bunch of different ones. And they actually come down
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here and they're going to to give you all these
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different domains. So like Amazon, and I usually always use
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Amazon as an example. Just about everybody has an Amazon account,
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whether you use it or not. So scammers know they
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have a lot more likelihood of getting more people to
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engage with their contact, whether it's phishing, whether it's or not, email,
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text message, phone call. You know, they have a better
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chance of.
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Getting you to here, you go, getting you to.
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Engage with their contact because your mind is reading Amazon
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and you see Amazon here, but you're not necessarily paying
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attention to the my in the box in this line.
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So this my Amazon box news. What I'm gonna do is,
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I'm just gonna do this, and I'm going to copy it,
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and I'm going to go back in to a search
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bar and go is and then you could type it in.
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I'm just gonna paste it, but I'm gonna want to
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get rid of these parentheses.