Feb. 17, 2026

Seemingly Innocent Texts Can Be Deceiving

Seemingly Innocent Texts Can Be Deceiving
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The text comes out of nowhere "looking forward to seeing you this weekend" or "Hi there" or any one of a number of seemingly innocent texts.
We know it is a wrong number, but should we respond? Tune in to find out.

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I know it was titled seemingly innocent text can be deceiving,

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and we're going to get to that innocent text in

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a little bit here, But I just kind of wanted

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to use this as a refresher to go over some

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other text messages that I'm sure all of us have

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received and maybe even some of us have clicked on

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the link called the number, responded to the text. I

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know we're all busy, and when we're trying to do

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multiple things at once, you're not thinking fully about whatever

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it is you're about to click on or respond to.

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You're just thinking, I can do this in a matter

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of a minute and get it off my plate. But

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I'm going to go through a few of them. So

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your bank, right, say you get a text message from

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Bank of America and you don't have an account at

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Bank of America. So you're like, oh, that's a scam.

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But I mean, what if you do. I mean I've

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I've gotten these over the last few years, and it

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definitely makes you take a second look at it because

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it does actually come from or it's impersonating a bank

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that I have an account at. So it makes me

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take a second look, and I have to stop and

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think about it and say, you know, was there in

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my Information's been changed in my account or my account's locked,

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you know what's going on. And so instead of responding

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to the text, instead of clicking on the lane, I

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had the bank's phone number in my contact list, So

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I just called them directly, and yes, I do have

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multi factor authentications set up with the bank, so they

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do have to send me the I called them, so

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I knew I was talking to them. In order for

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them to verify it's me on the other end, they

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have to send me the code and I read it

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back to them. But again, remember I initiated the phone

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call with an official phone number to the bank, and

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they can look through your account and give you any

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information that you need. But most importantly, they're going to

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tell you, no, your account is not locked. That's a scam. No,

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nothing has changed. No information has changed on your account,

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which is what happened to me a couple years ago,

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was that some information had changed. Some other text messages

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that come through this is a big one. I had

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somebody reach out just recently and ask if if I

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was still seeing these texts. And it's from It could

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be from UPS, it could be from the post office,

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it could be from FedEx, it could be from really

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any type of delivery service. But you've missed our delivery.

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So if you want to reschedule it, click here. Well,

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you know you don't necessarily know of every single delivery

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that you're getting. Some yes you do, but others, you know,

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maybe someone sents you something and you didn't know that

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you had a package coming, and it right curiosity, and

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so people will click on the link, and it's a

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way for scammers to try to get information from you.

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But also clicking on a link on a text right

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on your mobile phone, maybe it's going to install malware

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on your mobile phone, which is another great reason why

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we need to have antivirus and anti malware software on

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our phones. It's a mobile computer and it's going to

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help us. If we clicked on that link and it

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recognized it as a bad link, it'll give us that warning,

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you know, we've detected this as a malicious link, and

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then it gives you you can back out of it.

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And sometimes on our phone, it's extremely easy to click

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on a link you didn't mean to. You're trying to

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delete something and you've clicked on the link. You're trying

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to copy something, and you accidentally clicked on the link

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scrolling up or down on your phone. Lots of different

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ways that you can inadvertently click on those links. Some

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other ones is you know, get you excited, you've won

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a five hundred dollars gift card to you know, Target.

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Let's say Target's a big store. I'm sure they do

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do giveaways and contests and stuff, but a lot of

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people five hundred dollars is a lot of money. Target

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is a store a lot of people shop at, so

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they get excited and they're thinking, all right, I'm going

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to collect this, you know, and they just they don't

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think about it, Well, did I ever enter any contest

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with Target? Have I shopped at Target in a long time?

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You know, maybe I should go to Target's official website

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and find out if they are in fact giving away

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you know, gift cards. The toll charges. Those were going

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around like gangbusters, what year and a half ago, year ago,

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everybody was getting them. And you know, in Arizona, if

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you got one of those, you just knew, Well, if

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you knew that Arizona has no toll roads, you would

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know that it's a scam. But you know, a lot

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of people didn't know that Arizona had no toll roads,

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and so they would click on the link, they would

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pay it, and now their credit card, you know, was compromised,

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and and and maybe they ended up having to put

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in some other sensitive information on that where they thought

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they were paying the toll toll fees. But you know,

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you get one of those you know, who's to saying

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that that's not going to start coming up again, you know,

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quiet it down for a little bit and then bring

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it back out and catch people off guard, which is

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what scammers like to do. They like to catch you

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off guard. And so maybe it says another state, you know,

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maybe it says Florida, and you know, I don't know

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if Florida has toll roads or not. I don't travel

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around in Florida hardly at all. I'm usually just flying

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through there, so I'm at an airport. But one way

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to check is just search it online. Does Florida have

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toll roads? And it's going to come up, and it's

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going to give you that information. And if you were

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going through that city on that interstate where there was

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a toll road recently, then find their department of Transportation

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and call them and find out if you do, in fact,

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oh tolls. One that I had gotten I want to say,

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probably maybe two or three weeks ago was Arizona traffic violations.

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That I had an unpaid Arizona traffic violation. Now I

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knew that was a scam. But in certain areas out

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here in Arizona, there are these red light cameras, there

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are speed cameras, and if you're not paying attention, it's

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just going to do a quick flash and it takes

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a picture of your license plate and a picture of

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the front part of your car so they can see

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who the driver is. And you know, who's to say

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that that notice didn't get lost in the mail. So

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you know, there's different things that you're like, like in Arizona,

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did I get caught by a red light camera? Did

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I get caught by a speeding camera? But you would

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just look up whatever department it is on the internet,

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you know, whether it's Maricopa County, Panal County, Pima County,

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whatever it is in Arizona or whatever state you live in,

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and say, how do I pay toll violations? Or do

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I have a toll or not a toll? I'm sorry,

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we were just traffic violation, and it'll get you to

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the right place where you would go to actually pay

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those violations. And then you can just call them and say, hey, listen,

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this is my name. You know, I got a text

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saying and they're either going to tell you right away

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that they'll either tell you right away that we don't

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send any of this information out by text message, so

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it's a scam. You're going to get a notice in

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the mail, or you know, I don't know, maybe some

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states in cities and municipalities, maybe they do send something

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by text message. I don't know. And so then you

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give them your name and find out if you do

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have some thing there that's unpaid. So always going through

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those official sources job offers, you know those I haven't

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seen any come to my phone recently on the job offers,

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but every now and then I'll get in and dated

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with like maybe five or ten of them in a

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matter of a couple of days. And you know they're

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going to impersonate the larger companies, like indeed in zip

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recruiter and all of those or maybe some larger companies

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saying they're hiring, and this could happen right at the

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time where maybe one of these larger companies does have

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some information out there that they are hiring. So you know,

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it happens at the same time for a reason, because

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it makes it all the more believable. So always go

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directly to the official site and a lot of times

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those job offers, those are those too good to be true. Right,

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You only have to work like one or two hours

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day once a week, and you can make three hundred

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dollars a day. So that's like you're making, you know,

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one hundred and fifty dollars an hour, right, I mean,

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so you have to kind of look at it from

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that perspective. It just doesn't make sense. Student loan forgiveness

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haven't heard or seen any of those recently, But with

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all of the student loan forgiveness that was they were

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working on at the federal level a couple of years ago,

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it made sense that all those text messages were coming

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around because it happened at the same time that they

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were working through trying to forgive student loans at the

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federal level, So it made even more sense. So if

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you're kind of getting an idea here that you know,

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scammers are going to look at to what's in the news,

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what's out there, what are people seeing, what are they

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hearing to make whatever communication they're sending you, in this instance,

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a text message seem all the more believable. You know

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that one in particular might have said, you know, your

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student loan forgiveness program. It ends soon. You've got to enroll.

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Here's a phone number. Just be very careful with that.

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You know, you could always you could always call whoever

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you have your student loan with and find out if

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there is any forgiveness. If it says it's through a

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federal agency, call that agency directly, right, use the official sources.

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There's another one. A lot of companies now have they'll

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send you these codes, kind of like multi factor codes.

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When you go to log in. You might have set

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it up, but then when you're doing something on their website,

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they might want to send you a code just to

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make sure it's still you there. And so you know,

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as I've said in many shows, scammers love to personate

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Amazon because they are a huge company and almost everybody

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has an Amazon account, right, so you just might get

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this little innocent text that says, you know, Amazon, your

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code is this. If you didn't request this, click this link.

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Well you're going to look at it and go, I

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didn't request it. Someone's in my Amazon account, and you're

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going to want to click the link right away, But

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again pausing and going Okay, I'm not going to believe

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what I see here on this text. I'm going to

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go directly to my Amazon account, that is the official source,

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and I'm going to find out what's going on the

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one there's We talked about the bank text scam at

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the beginning. One of the things I wanted to mention

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on that was if if you go to your bank's

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official website. A lot of the larger banks have this

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on their website, but you can check yours if you're

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not with one of the larger banks, or if you're

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with a credit union, But a lot of times it

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will tell you that we do not ask for personal

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sensitive information via text, and that to always call us

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to verify. So go to their website, find out what

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they say, how they communicate before just it. But again,

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you know, scammers are trying to scare you with the

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bank text. So now getting to the wrong number text.

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This is the one that the title of this podcast

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was really about, was the seemingly innocent text that can

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be deceiving. And I get these all the time, and

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I can see how a lot of older adults would

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want to respond to these texts. I can tell you

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a number of years ago when I would get these,

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you know, innocent text that I knew was a wrong number.

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Absolutely I would respond and say I'm sorry, you have

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the wrong number. And I know I would have people

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say why are you wasting your time? And I'm like, well,

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if that was me and I accidentally sent this text

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to someone by mistake, I would want to know that

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it went to a wrong number. Scammers know that that's

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you know that that's how we are. You know, we

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were nice, we're kind hearted. We want to let them

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know it went to a wrong number so that they

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can fix it. But no, they're doing that on purpose.

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So you know, it could be as innocent as hello,

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or maybe hello and good morning or good evening. I've

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received some before that Sam looking forward to seeing you

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at the barbecue on Friday night, or I'm looking forward

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to seeing you at the movies on Saturday. You know,

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just something that's going to You're going to read it

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and your first thought is going to go, oh, well

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they have the wrong number, and you're just gonna want

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to quickly I'm sorry you have the wrong number. Well

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that's their way to, you know, get you to engaged.

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movies on Saturday. You must have the wrong number, whatever

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it is, and then they're going to send something back

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to you, and then you're going to want to respond. Right,

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we were taught we always answer the phone, so we

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always answer our text messages. We don't hang up on someone,

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so we don't leave someone hanging on a text message.

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We respond. Well, we have to put all those nice,

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kind hearted habits aside and say, I don't know this person.

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I don't know why they're texting me. I have no

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clue if this is a wrong number, this is a scammer,

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whoever it is. But to protect myself, I am going

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to delete. Or you could say report junk and delete,

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or I'm not sure if it says report if it

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says report junk or report spam or or what it is,

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but or just report and delete. But you could do

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that as well, because if you start to engage with them,

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you're going to continue to text back, and before you

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know it, you've got this friendship with somebody you've never meant.

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It was all over a seemingly innocent text, which it

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wasn't innocent. It was planned that way to begin with.

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And you know, maybe they want to start talking to

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you about investing and get you excited about this investment

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that they've you know, invested in and made all this

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money on because they probably they might already know a

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little bit of a little bit more about you based

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on what you guys have been texting back and forth,

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because you're one of a thousand and one of hundreds

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of thousands or a million people that are getting the

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same text But once you engage, you're engaging with a

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real person, and then they're using your emotions against you.

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They're exploiting your emotions and they're learning. The more you

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engage with them, the more they're learning about you. So

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then they can tailor those texts directly to you to

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get you into this friendship or it could be a relationship,

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right we just had Valentine's Day over the weekend. It

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could be where they're trying to establish a relationship as

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in a romance scam, and then but they, you know,

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very quickly want to take it to an encrypted app,

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you know, like WhatsApp or whatever, calling talking to you

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and you know you, and it all started from this

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seemingly innocent text. So just know, you know, throw those

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I shouldn't say throw those away. What I want to

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say is just be careful with the being kind to

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people and always wanting to respond, which is like always

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answering the phone. Is that in today's technology rich world,

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there are people out there using a variety of technology

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to get you to engage to then exploit your emotions

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just to take your money. It's sad, but it's it's

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where we're at in today's world, and you need to

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protect yourself. And just as I said before, report spam,

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report junk, whatever it says, and delete or just simply

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delete the text. You can also block the phone numbers,

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but scammers have tons of different phone numbers and you're

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going to continue to get those text messages from other

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phone numbers, but it is an option, and just know that.

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And if you're getting a text from someone that is

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in your contacts right, it's going to come up with

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their name on the text. Just know that. You know,

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if the conversation seems off, if it seems weird, if

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it just doesn't feel right, something is not sitting right

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with you, well, don't press on the person's name at

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the top of your screen where it has their contact,

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because that's the scammer texting. You just go directly into

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your contacts and your phone contacts and call that person

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and talk to them and find out what's going on,

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because scammers have been able to spoof the names for

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a long time, but now they have the technology that

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they can spoof phone numbers. And you might say, well,

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how in the world are they going to know who's

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in my contacts? And that's a valid point. That is

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a valid point. It seems highly unlikely that they're going

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to just get lucky and hit somebody that's in your

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contacts with as many people as there are in the world.

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But you have to ask yourself, if I don't have

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my mobile phone locked down and secured like I would

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my laptop, my iPad, my desktop I think the Samsungs

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are called notebooks and stuff like that, if I don't

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have my mobile phone locked down and secured, and that

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means more than just having having a passcode to get

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into your phone or using your biometric information like a

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fingerprint or a facial scan to get into your phone.

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That means the antivirus anti maolur software on your phone,

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having stuff like that to secure your phone like you

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would a computer, that can enable scammers to get into

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your phone. Maybe it's from clicking on a bad link

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and you didn't know it was a bad link. Could

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be from a variety of different ways. It could be

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calling you know, a phone number that came or calling

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the phone number that came through on a text and

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them convincing you to do a few things on your phone,

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you know, whatever it is. But scammers can hang out

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in your phone. It's a mobile computer, just like your

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other devices are. And if you don't have it lockdown

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and they are hanging out in your phone, or they've

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been able to compromise your phone somehow, do they then

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have access to who your contacts are? Yes, they do,

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and then that is a more targeted where they can

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actually impersonate one of your friends. And that can even

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be harder because if they can already see how you're

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friend is texting with you, they can kind of mimic

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those texts to make it seem all the more believable.

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So please lock down your phone. Secure your phone. You're

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going to hear me say this a million different times,

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but it's extremely important. Lock down, secure your phone. It's

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a mobile computer. And when you get those innocent texts,

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they're not as innocent as you think. Delete them. They

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don't need to know that it's a wrong number. Just

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delete them, don't worry about it. It'll save you a

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lot of time and aggravation and stress down the road.

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And as we're talking about locking down and securing your

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mobile phones, have one of the tips that we give

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in our program is always make sure that you have

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a trusted tech support person. That person can help you

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navigate issues you have with any of your devices. Now,

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the tech support person might specialize in Apple products, so

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maybe they don't know as much of about Android or

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Samsum products. You might get a tech support person that

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knows specifically Apple, specifically Android or Samsung, or maybe they

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know both. But have somebody that you know, like and

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trust because when you have an issue, you're not going

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to panic. You know who to call. But they also

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probably already know which softwares for a variety of different

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things are going to work better with whatever device you have. Right,

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They're already going to know different antivirus softwares and they

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might say, you know what, this one is very user friendly.

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It works well for the older adults that have Apple products. Well,

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you don't have an Apple, you have an Android, or

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you have Samsung products, then I would switch I would

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use this product this software because yes, it works well

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for the older adults, but it works better on Samsung

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or Android products. They also are gonna most likely know

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about other protections that you can put in place. When

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it comes to these types of softwares. They might already

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have recommendations. They've used them before, they know how they work,

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they know their security behind their systems and all of that.

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So have that trusted tech support person. Don't have one.

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If you live in a retirement community, ask the people

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in the office who they use. They trust them, maybe

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they do individual they take individual clients. Talk to your

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friends and family find out who they use. If you're

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just going to you know, do research online and stuff,

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make sure you're not just looking at the sponsored ads.

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You're going down and going below those sponsored ads and

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you're looking at others. And if you could just type in,

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you know, what's the best or the best antivirus software

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for twenty twenty six, you're going to find these tech

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companies that do these articles and they update them very frequently,

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or they've given you their top five to seven and

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they giving you the pros and cons for each one,

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and you might they might even say or when you search,

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you could say, the best antivirus software for seniors or

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for older adults in twenty twenty six, you're going to

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get an article specifically to that, and it's going to

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tell you what the pros and the cons and sometimes

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it even has a discount code. So there's a lot

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of research that you can do. You know, just make

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sure you're going to the official websites of these places.

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So that's all I have for you guys today. I

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will see you back next week. I'm working on a

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guest for next week. But in the meantime, don't forget

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to go to our website, Roseadvocacy dot org. You'll find

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all of our social media channels at the top. Scroll

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down to the bottom of the homepage you'll find where

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you can sign up for our emailed newsletter and or

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our mailed newsletter. You can also download our safety checklist.

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I am going to be going through on the recent

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sources tab and getting a lot of the downloadable resources

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updated to some more current ones over the next couple months,

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so you'll see some updates there. We also have a

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media under the resources there's a media tab where we've

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been in We've had interviews done and been in different articles.

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One of the most recent ones is last Friday, ABC

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fifteen here in Phoenix, did a clip on did a

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story sorry on romance scams and myself and one of

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our other board members was interviewed and you can see

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the short video there. You can also read the article

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Lots of great information and don't forget subscribed so you

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don't miss an episode of Let's Talk About Scams. Thank you.

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

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every Tuesday at eight am Pacific time on K four

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variety of knowledge, so you have the power to make

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scam protection your healthy habit, and until then, feel free

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