July 29, 2025

Sometimes we have to intervene

Sometimes we have to intervene
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What would you do if you overheard a phone conversation that sounded like the person was being scammed? Last year, I accompanied my mother to an appointment at her doctor’s office. I overheard a gentleman sitting across me making a phone call. He was speaking loud enough that it was hard to ignore the conversation. After less than a minute, I jumped up out of my chair and told the man he was being scammed. Sometimes we have to intervene to protect others.

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legal advice. The podcast information was carefully compiled from vetted

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sources and references. However, Rose Resources outreach to safeguard the

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elderly cannot guarantee that you will not fall victim to

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a scam. Let's talk about scams. It's the must listen

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show for anyone who wants to protect themselves and their

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loved ones from scams. Every Tuesday am Pacific time on

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K four HD Radio, Joyce Petrowski, founder of Rose, and

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her guests will provide valuable insights and practical tips on

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how to recognize and protect yourself from scams. And now

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here is your host, Joyce Petrowski.

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Good Morning, everybody, Welcome, to let's talk about scams. My

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name is Brian Watson and I have the pleasure of

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filling in for Joyce Petrowski this week and for the

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next two weeks as well.

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I am a community.

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Outreach specialist for Rose Resources Outreach to safeguard the elderly,

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and we are in the prevention business. We want to

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prevent people from being scammed. We run in a circle

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of people that see the terrible effects of people losing

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their money and it affects them emotionally, physically, financially, and

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are extremely passionate about people being protected from these nasty

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scammers that are out there. So today's episode is sometimes

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we have to intervene and let me start out with

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this question. How many of you out there have seen

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the show What Would You Do? On ABC. It's a

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show hosted by John Quinonez. It's been on for a

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very very long time, and they put people in like scenarios.

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It's one of those shows with hidden cameras and they'll

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set up in a restaurant or grocery store or out

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on the street and they use actors and they set

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up these scenarios to put people in an awkward situation.

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A lot of them are very common. Is like someone

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being mean, like a mom being mean to her kids,

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or an employer being very mean to an employee.

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At a grocery store.

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Or sometimes it's a bullying episode where someone's being bullied

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and they want to see if someone will intervene. I

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watched one recently where they set up in a diner,

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a little coffee shop diner, and these people were put

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water on the ground and were pretending to slip and fall,

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and they were trying to get the patrons, the customers,

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to you know, back up their story and lie to

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the owners of the restaurant. So it's a fun show.

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It's it's also very awkward because they show the people

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debating whether to intervene or to step in. But they

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play off these scenarios and it's really a case steady

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on human nature. At what point would we intervene or

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do we just stick to ourselves because there's a risk,

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you know, if you intervene, things could go bad, right,

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the safest thing a lot of times is not to

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do anything.

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So it's a great show. It's been on for a

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very long time because.

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It's entertaining, but it also gives us a view into

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you know how we work as human beings. So I

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had a recent experience that could have been an episode

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of what would you do? And actually, if the hidden

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cameras had come out, I would have been like, yep,

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you got me. I could see that. So this is

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what happened. This was sometime last fall. I accompanied my

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mother to a doctor's appointment. And it was a very

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small waiting room and everyone's like tightly packed in chairs,

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and you could kind of hear everything, so.

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You just try to mind your own business.

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But there was a gentleman sitting across from me, and

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he's on his cell phone and he called a phone number.

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You could tell.

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He said, this is so and so, and I'm returning

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a phone call about a purchase. And I started listening,

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even though I was trying not to. But he's on

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his cell phone in a small waiting room, and I

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could hear what's going on. And about a minute into

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his call, I jumped up out of my chair. I

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looked at him and his wife and I said, you're

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being scammed. And then I looked at the wife. I said,

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your husband is being scammed. You need to hang up

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the phone. And they were both a little surprised and

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he hung up the phone. Now, just because I do

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scam prevention for a living, this is not normal for me.

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And in fact, in two years of working part time

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for Rose, this is the first time I've ever interrupted

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a scam.

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Phone call in progress. But this is what happened.

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This potential victim in this case received a voicemail saying

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that his credit card had been used to purchase a

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very expensive video game system from a big box store.

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And the what they want to do is they want

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to confirm that it's legitimate. Well, of course it's not

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legitimate because this person didn't buy it. But the whole

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thing's a scam. And they say, sir, you know your

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credit card is going to be charged like eight hundred

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nine hundred dollars if do you want to reverse it? Oh, yeah,

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I didn't buy that. I didn't buy that. And what

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they do is they start walking you through providing all

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your personal information. So in this case, they first asked

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for his mailing address, so they need that for credit cards,

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and then eventually they get to the point, you know,

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the billing zip code, your billing addressed. Then they asked

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for your credit card number to confirm and y'll ask

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for everything. And when I heard this gentleman sitting in

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the waiting room providing his mailing address for his credit card,

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I knew he was being scammed, so I had to intervene.

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So I knew about this scam because my mother received

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two of these phone calls the prior weekend, and she

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told me about those two phone calls. And then, remember,

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one of the things that Joyce and I talk about

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all the time is having a phone a friend. So

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when my mom gets a scam email, scam phone call,

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or anything, she lets me know one because I'm in

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the fraud prevention business, but two, I'm her son and

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I help, you know, keep an eye out for her.

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My dad's the same way. He forwards me emails. He

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asks me I'm his phone a friend as well. So

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what if I was wrong and this man was not

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being scammed, Well, he could have yelled at me and

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said mind your own dang business. His wife could have

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yelled at me. I could have everybody in this waiting

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room could have been looking at me and thinking, who's

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this guy that needs to mind his own business? And

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I would have been stuck there waiting until my mom

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got called and it would have been very uncomfortable.

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I mean, I could have gotten kicked out of the

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office if I was wrong.

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Maybe it you know, it could not have been It

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could have ended really well. But here's the point, and

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that's the title of the show today. Sometimes we have

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to intervene, and in this case it was the right thing.

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I took a chance and it all worked out. So

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this particular scam about a fake charge, it's very effective

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on people who I like to call rule followers.

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What is a rule follower?

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Well, a rule follower is a law abiding citizen who

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always tries to do the right thing.

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And just they're just good people.

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And the problem is, rule followers get in trouble by

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scammers because if you're a procrastinator and you're a deadbeat

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and you don't follow the rules of civilization, it's hard

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to get you in a scam. But rule followers are

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very susceptible to being scammed. So what else do rule

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followers do?

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Well?

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Rule followers pay their bills on time a lot of times.

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Even early rule followers put their shopping carts in those

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corrals at the grocery store. Rule followers clean up their

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table at a fasthood restaurant.

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They don't leave a mess. Okay.

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I love rule followers. I'm a rule follower. My wife's

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a rule follower, and it's just you know. So that's

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why this scam works. You know, scammers rely on rule

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followers to return phone calls. So you know, you see

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your phone, you had a voicemail. Oh okay, this is

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a big box store and you ordered a six hundred,

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eight hundred dollars gaming system. Call us if you don't

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want it. Well, what's a rule follow We're going to do.

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A rule follower is going to call these the number

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back on the number provided, trusting that it's the big

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box store. And that's how it works. It's a normal

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human reaction to say I didn't buy that gaming system.

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All right, So how do you prevent getting scammed in

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this thing? You need to keep your wits and you

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need to resist the urge to respond immediately. Joyce and

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I always talk about time is your friend.

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Okay.

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When we show our anatomy of a scam infographic, right

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in the middle of it is urgency. The scammers want

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you to react quickly and move quickly, not to to

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anybody else, not think about it. Okay, we want to

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do everything very slow and methodical when it comes to scammers.

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So if you get a call or voicemail about a

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large purchase somewhere, and like I said, it could be

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a video gaming system at a big box store. Or

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my dad recently got an email claiming to be Norton

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and they were going to charge him five hundred dollars

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for three years of some service. You if they call you, you

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hang up the phone. If you get a voicemail, don't

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use the number that they provide, Okay, just delete that email.

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What you do is you contact the store directly through

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a verified number. So you you go to the company's website,

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the legitimate website that you found on your own, and

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you find their contact or you could go to the

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store itself, okay, but never ever ever use the number

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provided by the scammer.

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Okay.

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That's the clue, you know, Like I've talked about before,

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if it's your bank that's claiming to call you about something,

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you pull out your ATM card, your debit card, flip

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it over and call the number on the back. So,

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because that's the deal. If you use the number provided

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by the scam or, you are falling right into their trap.

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So here's the deal. We have to have a healthy

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level of skepticism when it comes to every email or

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text message or voicemail that comes in. You have to

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react slowly and methodically to prevent being scammed. And you know,

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never be afraid to contact a trusted friend or a

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family member. You don't have to react right away. Call

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up your son, your daughter, your brother, your sister, a

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neighbor and just say, hey, I got this scary voicemail

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that said I bought this expensive product. I don't know

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it's legitimate or not, so react really slowly. That's that's

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the key. So please share this information today. This scam

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is very common and it's cheap and easy to do,

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very abbreviated version and it's just good tips. And then

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when you get these emails, share it with your friends,

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and then even better, have them sign up and then

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have their friends sign up. These scammers are relentless. And

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the thing that bothers me the most about being in

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the scam prevention business is people do not have the

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same urgency that I have and the Joyce has, and

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the members of our board and the members of our

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advisory committee have when it comes to scams. We see

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it every single day, and so many people aren't just

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are not doing enough. So it minimums sign up for

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our monthly email like it's free, and if you don't

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like it, you can cancel it and we won't be offended.

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But I know you won't cancel it because it's just

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good information. Get your neighbors, your friends, family, everyone to

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sign up. And because that's what I've learned being in

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law enforcement and being in the nonprofit world. The last

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couple of years is these scammers aren't going anywhere or

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anywhere soon. And these scams keep repeating, and then they

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come up with new ones, and they're very good. They

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sound legitimate, and people fall victim every day. And like

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I said at the beginning of the show, today, we

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are passionate about preventing people from being scammed. I would

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love to put myself out of a job. If we

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were that successful and there are no more scammers, I

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would have to find another part time job. But I

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just know it's not going to happen because it's too profitable.

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On August fifth, next week, we are going to do

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a review of phishing and smishing. So emails and text

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messages meant to trick you. These are the most common

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ones that we're going to see, and it's just a

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good time to go back to the basics and review

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fishing and smishing. And I'm gonna have some examples to

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put on the screen next week of all the latest

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ones that I've seen that I've either received myself, or

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I've seen online or my dad has sent me.

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So please join us.

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Next Tuesday morning and we're gonna talk phishing and smishing,

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all right, Thanks, for listening. Be safe out there, be

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very leary of every email, text message that you receive,

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and don't be scared, but just be empowered and don't

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call for scams. All right, thanks for listening. We'll see everybody,

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see you all next week.

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

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every Tuesday at eight am Pacific time on kfour HD

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Radio at KFOURHD dot com as Joyce explores a variety

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of knowledge. So you have the power to make scam

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

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reach out to Joyce and let's talk about scams.