July 7, 2025

Scammers Don't Leave Voicemails, Or Do They?

Scammers Don't Leave Voicemails, Or Do They?
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Last week Brian Watson talked about phone scams and it is okay to hang up. Something we hear a lot is - I do not answer the phone unless I know who it is as scammers do not leave voicemails. Or do they?
We are starting to hear from people that scammers are in fact leaving voicemails now and wanting you to call back. Of course they always give you the number to call.
Tune in to learn more about how scammers have evolved with phone scams.

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victim to a scam. Let's talk about scams. It's the

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and their loved ones from scams. Every Tuesday am Pacific

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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, it's good to be back.

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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. Scroll down to the bottom of the homepage

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and you can sign up for our mailed and or

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emailed newsletters that we send out monthly. And with the

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emailed newsletters, every Tuesday morning at nine point fifteen, you're

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going to get a Tuesday tip in your email inbox.

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It's going to have one tip. It's going to have

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a tip about a specific area, something you already are

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familiar with. Then you can just bypass it. But the

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part of the reason why we do it not only

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to get tips out, but we do it because it's

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a it's a gentle reminder to always be on the

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lookout for scams, and getting that every week is going

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to remind you every week and then at some you

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know some of them you're not going to be familiar

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with on these tips, and so you're going to learn

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some new information that you can incorporate into your daily life.

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So a couple of weeks ago, when the last time

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I was on, we talked about how to tell if

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a website was a good website or not. And since then,

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I've come across another website that I just wanted to

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show you really quickly, so I'm going to share my

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screen here, I mean just a minute, so you all

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should see this this and you know they can. You

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can look here the biggest data, biggest database of scam.

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They give you a lot of information. They have some

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other educational information on scan trends, scam alerts. But what

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you can do up here where it says search a website.

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I just put in Amazon dot Com. Everybody's familiar with it.

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But just for.

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Searching, it's going to verify that I'm a human here.

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This should only take a second. There we go verification successful.

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I Uh, everybody knows it's a good website. Trust score

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one hundred out of one hundred. The nice thing about

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it is you can look at community reviews and you

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can look at what does Amazon dot Com have? Why

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does they have an average to good trust score? And

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it's going to tell you detailed analysis if you want,

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click here, it's going to have positive highlights, negative highlights.

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But you can go up here to this trust score

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where it says what is this and you can click

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on that and it's going to give you.

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It's going to give you.

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Information about how they do their domain trust rating to

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get to their trust scores positive indicators. Scroll down, they're

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going to tell you some negative indicators. Just a bunch

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of different informations. So it's another way for you to

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another avenue for you to check out a website if

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you're not familiar with it.

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But the.

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Last week Brian Watson was here, sorry about that, and

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he talked about it is okay to hang up on scammers,

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and that is definitely a good thing to do. If

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you do happen to answer the phone and you realize

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that it's a scammer, it's not who they say they are.

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Don't worry about being rude. I know we all, you know,

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those of us that are older, we've been taught that

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it's rude to hang up on people.

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Don't worry about it. It's not rude.

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They're being rude to begin with, trying to trick you

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and exploit your emotions to take your money. So hang

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up on them. If you do engage and realize, you

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know that it is and then you realize that it's

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a scammer.

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And I've heard.

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From people, multiple people you know, over the years, but

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recently I've started hearing this again and so I started

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checking it out.

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Is a lot of people will say.

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We only answer, you know, the calls from people we know,

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which is a good thing to do. But then it'll

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be they'll say that, well, scammers don't leave voicemails. Well,

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I've been hearing from quite a few people that scammers

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are leaving voicemails, and especially with the advent of artificial

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intelligence and scammers really embracing the artificial intelligence. We've talked

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about that before, with like the chat GBT, you know

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that can that can take out the bad grammar. So

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when you're reading that email, that text message, you get

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something in the mail, you know, whatever it is, and

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you're like, oh, wow, you know this is unexpected. I

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didn't know this. Oh but the grammar's really good. There's

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no bad grammar, so maybe this is legit. Well, chat

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GBT helps them figure out how to write in good grammar.

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And then there's the you know, the the deep fakes

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with the videos. You know, we've talked about that. We're

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like on romance scams, they would never want to come

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on camera before because they didn't look anything like what

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their fake profile that they purporting to be in any

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pictures they were sending you, they didn't look like that,

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so they didn't want to come on camera. They always

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had an excuse. Well, now through the artificial intelligence, they

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can make that video look like whoever it is, you know,

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look like the person in the pictures that they're sending

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you or that's on their fake profile.

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But yet they're still engaging with you. It looks real.

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They're talking to you, you know, they're behind it, talking

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and saying everything. So, but there's also the voice cloning,

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and they only need I've heard from some people ten seconds.

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I've heard from others fifteen to twenty seconds.

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I think it's.

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Somewhere in there, but it's a short amount of a

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recording of someone's voice is all they need to then

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manipulate that voice to say whatever the scammer wants that

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voice to say. And so we equated that to like

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the grandparents scams, where when they first started they had

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no clue if you had grandkids. Well, then through a

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lot of online information and a lot of hacks and

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breaches of companies and getting that information on your personal information,

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they're able to figure out, you know, your grandkid's names.

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Well then it was like, well, yeah, they had the name,

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but the voice didn't sound like my grandkids, so I

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knew it was a scam. Well, now with this voice cloning,

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that voice can sound exactly like your grandchild. But they're

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also doing it to make it sound like the voice

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is coming from a reputable company. Could be a company

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that you've actually, you know.

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Done bit business with.

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It could be one of your utility companies, it could

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be a bank, and they're making it all the more believable.

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And when you don't answer the phone and it goes

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to voicemail, well then they're leaving these voicemails that sound

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very believable and very reputable that they are in fact

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these companies. There was an article that I found from

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the beginning of the year from Fox five in New York.

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It was published on January twenty eighth, twenty twenty five.

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AI voicemail scams on the rise. What you need to know,

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and that's exactly what they're talking about, is how they've

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begun using incredibly realistic sounding AI generated voices and voicemails

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to conduct the schemes like offering fake loan approvals or

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tax forgiveness or saying that you haven't paid your bill

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or things like that.

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And the FBI estimates that.

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About twelve billion dollars is lost annually to cyber crimes

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or cyber scams, I should say, and that this new

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method of this AI generated voicemails is only adding in

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adding to the problem. And it goes on to say,

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unlike traditional phone scams that often had telltale signs like

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accents or poor grammar, AI has enabled to has enabled

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scammers to produce polished, convincing messages that are harder to

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identify as fake.

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You know, so how do they get how do they

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get people's voices?

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Well, if you think about it, one way is if

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your voice so on your voicemail greeting, if you have

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customized it and used your voice on the greed on

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your voicemail greeting, well they can get it from that.

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So if you have used your voice there, you might

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want to seriously consider going and changing that to the

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default message that just would normally, you know, be a

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computer voice that whatever your carrier has. And I think

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there's I don't know if the carrier has these things

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or if it's different apps that you get where you

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can make them sound like, you know, they have.

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An accent and stuff like that.

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But anyways, just seriously consider not using your voice for

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that voicemail greeting. And then, you know, there's a lot

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of if you're on social media and you do a video,

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you know your voice is on that video. You know,

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there's just a lot of different ways if you are

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you could be maybe you're doing videos for your company

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and everything's legit and stuff, and those videos are on

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the company's website, you know, the they can find those

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on the company's website and stuff.

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So you just want to be.

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Careful wherever your voice is out there. But I did,

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Actually I'm going to share. I'm going to pull up

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a screenshot here that I took. I was on LinkedIn

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the other day and this gentleman here, Thomas Lap. He's

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a daily money money man helping you manage household finances.

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One of his clients received a voicemail and it was

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a scammer. And he goes on here to say that

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it says, Hi, Comcast Exfinity calling. Due to continued silence,

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we have removed your fifty percent discount and are preparing

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one thousand dollars account penalty. This charge will be locked

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into your next bill if you don't call back on

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the number showing on your caller ID right now. And

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we've talked about emotions before how scams exploit your emotions.

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If you remember from a number of weeks back in

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the beginning of the show, we talked about the anatomy

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of a scam where they had the contact and so

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here they contacted via phone, no one answered, so they

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left a voicemail, and the second part was creating that

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compelling reason to act, which is where your emotions come

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into play. And so based on what they're saying in

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this message, and you can scro you can look down

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here to what Thomas has said, urgency right call back now.

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Scammers don't want you to think about what you're being

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told to do. And you know that is exactly correct.

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Is it's urgent. Everything with scammers is urgent. They want

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you to call back right now because they know if

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they can keep the longer they keep you in this

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emotional state, the more apt they are to get what

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they want, which is your money. The longer time you

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have thinking about this and not engaging with that scammer,

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you're more apt to be go into your rational state

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of mind and realize, Okay, well I don't have to

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call back now.

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Let me think about this.

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Let me, you know, if I am a Comcast Exfinity customer,

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let me pull out one of my previous statements from

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Comcast Exfinity and let me call the customer service phone

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number on that statement, or go to the website that

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is listed on that statement and I can check things

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out there with my account or talk to a customer

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service person there and check things out and find out

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if this is accurate or not. If you're not a

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Comcast Infinity customer, well then you know right off the bat,

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you know that this was that this was a scam.

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they've put this account penalty in there, We've removed.

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or products? I mean that's a substantial discount. We all

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adding that thousand dollars account penalty is going to instill fear.

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we've been we we pay our bills on time. We

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don't like to we don't like to have outstanding items

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out there. We want to keep things current and we

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want to keep things in good standing. So we would

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be more apt to want to engage with this and

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due to exploiting your your emotion of fear and wanting

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to make sure that your account stays in good standing.

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A third one he recognizes here anxiety, It says due

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to continued silence. So did you, as Thomas said here,

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did you do something wrong? Should you have should you

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have picked up the phone and answered the phone call?

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there's fears here, there's anxiety, there's urgency, all kinds of things,

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all kinds of emotions that they're trying to get you

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to call them right now to get this taken care of. Okay,

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be aware of your emotions, which is great, but when

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aware of your emotions. So always have that trusted friend

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that you can talk to about anything, because a lot

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and you get out of that emotional state and you

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all of a sudden go, okay, wait, I figured this out.

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This doesn't make any sense. I've got it.

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this instance, and it's going to take your friend in

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their rational state to talk to you about it, ask

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you questions, get you to understand that this is really

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a scam, or get you to say, hey, you know,

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you have, or if you keep them all online, you know,

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pull it up. If you have an online account set

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up with them, log into your online account the way

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we still have questions like okay, well maybe it hasn't post.

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service number on the online account and call them and

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find out what's going on. Your trusted person's going to

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finding the verified customer service number, logging onto your online

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account the way you normally would, getting onto the company's

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verified website. That is your way to verify the situation,

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the voicemail, all of that stuff, the phone number to

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verify it before you can even be in to trust

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that that message was actually true.

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on a second.

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and I came across Better Business Bureau, which I think

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a lot of people know about the Better Business Bureau,

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but they have what's called a scam tracker, and I

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just went in since i'm it automatically came up Chandler Arizona,

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which is by me. You can put in really you know,

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any city and state you want in here, or you

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just typed in voicemails because it's already a scam tracker,

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so I didn't need to put scams in. But I

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just typed in voicemails and you'll.

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There's over fifteen hundred search results related to voicemails and scams,

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and so the latest one was just I believe today's

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the twenty fourth. It was yesterday. So they receive and

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this is where people they either do it online or

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they call in and report whether they've lost money or not.

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a scam. And this one in particular, you know several

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calls from a private number stating there's a claim against

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me and ready to be filed through my county, and

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then they needed to call this number. And they have

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called my parents several times and have left voicemails stating

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they will send someone to my home to schedule a

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court date. Now that's that can be scary. You know,

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when you to make you want to call that number

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because you don't want just anybody coming by your home

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and the court date. You know a lot of people

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they I don't want to go to court. Another one

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labeled fishing. This location was in New York, but she

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sent me an email which got forward into compliance. She

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left me voicemails.

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That was on June twentieth. Another one on June twentieth,

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Anderson stating he was from Easy Money and I need

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to contact them in regards to a loan.

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He had my full name and last.

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Ford digits of my sole security number. Here's another one

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on June seventeenth. They've called from several numbers and they

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leave several voicemails to this and they go on to

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tell you the details of what's in the voicemails, you know,

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clearing out people's personal information that you can just see here.

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How many come up current once. This is just in

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the last week, last couple of weeks this month in June.

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and contact person stating looking to serve legal documents. Here's

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a debt collections Harvey and Harvey Law Firm. Have no

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idea if that is even a valid law firm. If

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it is, then the scammers are impersonating that law firm.

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dates such as court being served. If you call, they

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behave ridiculously, which let me know they're not a lawyer's office.

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They lied about having caller ID. You know this person

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actually did call back and engaged so and if you

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click over here on this air, on this arrow here,

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it'll it'll give you the rest of the information that

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was in Cedar Hill, Texas. Here's a phishing Venmo scam,

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you know, getting several calls from unknown numbers leaving voicemails

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pretending to be Venmo. They say someone's trying to change

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my password and asked me to press one. If it

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wasn't me, this person said, I've not asked to change

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the password, but instead of pressing one, they contacted Venmo

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and Venmo said no one has attempted to change the

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password in her or in their account. It seems like

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the scammers are looking for me to do so over

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a call and learn my password that way, and that's

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exactly that is very possible. They might also be asking

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for other information, but this person did. This was their

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way of verifying. They did not press one like the voice,

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you know, the voicemail, or call the number back. If

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they engaged with the call pressing one, they went and

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contacted Venmo directly, which that's their way to verify whether

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someone is actually trying to change the password to their account.

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Here's one where they ordered a knee grace through a

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website and completed the order using PayPal. Let's see, showed

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two other items that they didn't order. This is one.

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Maybe that was it said. I think the consumer left

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the voicemail. It wasn't necessarily a scammer calling them lending

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tree imposter. This one, they got a text message for

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a five thousand dollars loan with a monthly payment during

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that conversation, so they engaged with the text message. They

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asked for the routing number and account number and the

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username and password to the bank account. So there's a

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lot of If you look at here, looks like there's

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about eight to ten on this page and we're only

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back to May thirtieth, and look how many pages there are,

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one hundred and fifty one pages of all these different

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complaints filed with a Better Business. Here's one receiving voicemails

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from somebody claiming to be Brian Baker stating they're trying

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to reach this person's mother. This was in Washington, so

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this is all over the United States. Let me see,

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here's one from ETNA. Their scammer made several phone calls

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and left several voicemails claiming to be from ETNA, and

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they list the person's whole name and the voicemail, And

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that person works for a university system that did switch

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to using ETNA for insurance the past year. So that

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could be very believable when you get that voicemail because

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they did use ETNA. But it looks like this person

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either went directly through their company or contacted ETNA, probably

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with the phone number that's on their insurance card to

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check things out here, left a voice mail to call

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this number to avoid legal action, debt collections. They just

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the reasons run the gamut. But just know scammers are

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leaving voicemails. I'm gonna go ahead and stop sharing here,

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so just know that scammers are leaving voicemails.

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Again. This is the way they evolve.

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They evolve their tactics, their techniques. They might evolve techniques

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with a particular scam to catch people off guard. They

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might take some tactics from one scam and tactics from

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another scam, mesh them together and come up with a

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whole new scam. They are constantly evolving what they're doing,

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they are making and we've talked about this recently in

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the last month when the statistics came out from the

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FBI's ICEE three report for twenty twenty four. They are

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making billions and billions of dollars every year on these scams,

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and that's just what's reported. So they are constantly evolving.

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They're perfecting their techniques to keep everybody on their toes.

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So don't assume.

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that it is accurate that it is from the actual

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company or person that the voicemail is purporting to be from.

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You still need to check things out. Remember that verify

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before you can trust. Call the person with their verified

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phone number. Call the company with a verified phone number,

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log onto the company's your account with that company the

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way you normally would go on to the company's verified website.

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Check things out for yourself, and do not just all

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the phone number that's in the call history from the

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voicemail or any phone number or information that is given

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in the voicemail before you engage. Check things out. Verify, Verify, verify.

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This is all used to protect yourself. So that's all

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I have for today. It's a short one today, but

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very important information. Thank you Thomas for posting that on LinkedIn.

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We don't see and we don't know everything that's out there,

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and so we like to hear from you guys, whether

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we get an email, whether we see it on social media.

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You know, you tag us on social media, comment on

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one of our posts about a situation that you might

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have encountered. We love to hear that information because we liked.

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We then take that information and we get it out

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to people, whether we do it on this radio show,

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we do it on social media, we do it in

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the newsletters or a comp nation, or all of the above.

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We have a lot of different avenues to get information

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out and we want to hear from you your experiences

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with the scams, whether you have lost money or not

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engaged with the scammer or not. We want to hear

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what you guys are getting so we can stay abreast

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as to what's going on out there and not have

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to wait maybe six months twelve months down the road

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for somebody to be reporting on it, or to get

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a public service announcement from a government agency, or to

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see it in the statistics. So let us know our information.

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You know, our website is Rosadvocacy dot org. We've got

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to contact us form on there down at the bottom

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and again down scroll down to the bottom of the homepage,

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you can sign up for our mailed and or emailed

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newsletter that we send out monthly. And with the emailed

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newsletter you will get what we call a Tip Tuesday

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every Tuesday morning at nine to fifty tea Arizona time.

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It'll go out. It kind of mirrors.

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What you also you see those Tip Tuesdays on Facebook

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subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can find all of

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And tune in every week you don't.

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Want to miss an episode of Let's Talk About Scams

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where we share a lot of valuable information.

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Thank you.

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

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every Tuesday at eight am Pacific time on KFOURHD Radio

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