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to the subject matters covered. This information is given with
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Of competent professionals before applying or trying any suggested ideas.
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The information contained in this podcast is intended for informational
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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, eight am Pacific time
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on K four HD Radio, Joyce Petrowski, founder of Rose,
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and her guests will provide valuable insights and practical tips
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on how to recognize and protect yourself from scams. And
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now here is your host, Joyce Petrowski.
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Well, welcome back, everybody.
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I'm Joyce Petrowski, President and founder of Rose Resources Outreach
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to Safeguard the Elderly. You can go to our website
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at Roseadvocacy dot org. You can find our social media
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links at the top of the homepage. Scroll down to
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the bottom of the homepage and you can see where
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you can sign up for our newsletters. We do a
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monthly mailed newsletter which gets sent out the beginning of
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each month, and then we do a monthly emailed newsletter
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as well that goes out once a month towards the
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beginning of the month. But the other great thing with
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that one is every Tuesday morning at nine point fifteen
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Arizona time, which is a little more than an hour
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from now, you're going to get an email and it's
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going to be Tip Tuesday, and it's going to have
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a tip in there for you, and you might look
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at it and go, you know, oh wow, I didn't
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know that. Okay, that's great, or I already knew that.
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But the other most just as important part to that
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is it's reinforcing your scam prevention habits. It's unfortunately, we're
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at a time today where in today's world where we
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need to hear about scams and about prevention habits and
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healthy skepticism on a regular basis in order to make
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it a habit. We want your healthy skepticism for you
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to be able to ask questions when you don't understand something.
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To that way, you can have a complete understanding before
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you're actually signing something, signing up for an account, giving
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out your personal sensitive information in your scam prevention habits.
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The more that you make scam prevention a habit, the
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more you're when you are contacted, You're going to be
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more apt to think scam okay, what do I need
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to do to make sure that this is a scam
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or that this is legitimate? And then you're going to
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remember the tips that we give you on how to
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verify to make sure that the contact is actually legitimate.
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You can also download our safety checklist there as well.
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You can use that to as a checklist what it's
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for to check off, write dates next to it as
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to what areas and protection tools you want to put
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in place. So today we are going to talk about
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the FBI's report. It came out about a month ago
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for twenty twenty five. We're going to go through the
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elder fraud report and the Internet Crime Complaint Centers where
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all this data is gathered when people report that they
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were a victim of a scam. So I'm going to
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share my screen wrong cam or wrong.
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There it is.
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It's been a while since I shared my screen. Let's
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see here entire screen. Okay, all right, so we're gonna
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go to here's the report, and I'm gonna show you
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really quickly. If you want to go down and look
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at any of the other reports, you just go to
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IC three dot gov.
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And right here public Information. Click on that.
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You've got the annual reports. You can look at public
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service announcements as well. That's something I'll be doing soon
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to I believe there's some new ones out there. But
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here's annual reports you can see too. You can go
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over here on the right and go down through the years.
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They've even got prior to twenty fifteen archived. But scroll
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down through here. So like they have the state reports
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if you want to look at individual states, they actually
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have one for complaints seventeen years old or younger state reports.
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They have cryptocurrency state reports, and then there's the elder
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fraud state reports. This one for seventeen years old or
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younger actually is new. You can see in past years
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they've got the cryptocurrency and the elder fraud. Just scroll
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all the way down and you can see the reports
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that you can go back. You can look at different states,
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you can look at the different years and see what
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the trends are. But we're going to go to the
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twenty twenty five. Now this is the very first page.
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What it looks like.
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And actually I'm gonna make this bigger, so hopefully you
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guys can see this a little bit better. Let me see.
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I don't want to cut anything off. There we go,
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so you got your table of contents right if you
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just want to go down and look at anything. And
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this is the whole report here. So they've got a
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quarter of a century of cybercrime reporting. So twenty fifth anniversary,
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they've got a letter here talks about what they've been doing.
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Losses reported to the IC three and twenty twenty five
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continue to climb, surpassing the twenty billion dollar mark. Investment
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related fraud was once again the largest component of these losses.
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I think artificial intelligence has a lot to do with this.
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It's you can use artificial intelligence to make fake investment
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statements in graphs and showing that you're making all this money.
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Business email compromise and tech support scams is still one
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of the top three. And tech support scams have been
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around for a very long time. But scammers keep changing
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their techniques, refining it, adding new things, taking things out, changing,
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They just do a whole bunch of different things to
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keep you on your toes.
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So here's some complaints.
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By year, and again, this is all the This is
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all ages back in twenty eleven or two thousand and one.
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And look at how this graph's gone all the way
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up in twenty twenty five. The losses.
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We started down in two thousand and one with seventeen
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point eight million and we're all the way up to
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almost twenty one billion dollars.
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to twenty and fifteen, went up just a little bit,
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and then look at it just skyrocket from twenty fifteen
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to twenty twenty five in the last ten years. So
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then they talk about their role in combat cybercrime, how
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they collect data, they analyze it, they refer it out,
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they coordinate, you know, of threat response efforts with internal
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and external partners and public awareness. And part of this
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is there is their public awareness. They also do those
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public service announcements, which are awesome. As they start to
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see upticks and reoccurring threats out there, they're going to
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put these public service announcements out. You can always go
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there thatic three dot gov, go under public information and
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the public service announcements are right there.
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This is a graph again by age group.
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top are all age groups, and it's going to show
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the total losses and it's a twenty six percent increase
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in losses from twenty twenty four. And I want you
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to keep that in mind, and that twenty six percent
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increase in losses from twenty twenty four from all age
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groups cumulative. And then we get into the sixty plus
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and you see the percentage increase there way above twenty
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six percent. So you can look at this here, sixty
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plus had almost seven seven point seventy five billion in losses,
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and then look at the fifty to fifty nine it's
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like half of that, and then it.
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But look here the losses went down, but the number
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of complainants went up. In the forty to forty nine
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year old it's one hundred.
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And sixty seven thousand.
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Look at the fifty to fifty nine the losses went
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up and the complaints the complainants went down. So it's
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interesting that they're able to start getting more money out
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of less amount of people. The thirty to thirty nine
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year olds, that comes in second in number of complaints,
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but look at the amount of the losses one point
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seven billion compared to seven point seven than five billion.
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So yes, the thirty to thirty nine year olds, there's
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a lot of victims in that age group, but they
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are not losing anywhere near the amount of money that
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the sixty plus year old population is losing.
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And again this is for all of them.
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The crime types, so the biggest one for by victims
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is the fishing and the spoofing, and the fishing is
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the emails where they send you fake emails. They might
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send you to a fake website.
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They might have a real phone number, but.
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You're going to they're impersonating a company. The extortion, investment,
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personal data breach, and then it goes down. You can
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see tech customer support government impersonation.
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And let's see here by losses.
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Investment again is number one, business email compromise, and the
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tech support those are the top three. Personal data breach
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falls in there over a billion dollars. And then here's
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this confidence romance scam. And I think we're going to
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see this confidence romance scam happening a lot in the
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sixty year old and older. So here they just highlight
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where criminals use the Internet or other technology to commit
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fraudulent activities. You can see the sixty plus is way
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out here at twenty four just over twenty four percent,
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where everybody else is down in the teens. There were
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sixteen percent of them that didn't report in age. There,
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here's the top five cyber enabled fraud. Extortion is one,
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the top investment, non payment, non delivery, tech support again,
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tech supports always up there. That's by number of victims.
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Here's by the amount of losses. Look at the investment
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losses eight point six billion dollars. And now we're over
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at business email compromise, which is under half of that,
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just over three billion dollars. The investment scam is huge
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because you're getting involved in fake investments. But yet the
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statements that you think are real are showing that you're
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making money, and so who doesn't want to continue to
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put more money into an investment where they're making money
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and it could end up wiping out your total life savings.
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This is kind of the same here, we're going to
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get down to some trends, not going to get into.
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That sextortion thing. See look at this is.
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Interesting here, only seven percent. So they talk about the
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cyber threats, hijacked networks, cryptocurrency heist, corporate espionage, or a
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few examples of the spiraling cyber threat. We talk about
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this every year. The adversaries become savvier, increasingly callous, attacking
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power gride, shutting down hospitals, stoking geopolitical tensions, all kinds
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of stuff. And you know, look here, thirty six percent
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was the ransomware, thirty nine was data breach. Those are
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the top two botnets. Those are seven percent. It'll be
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interesting to see if that one grows over the years.
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The simswap here the ten percent where they actually take
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over your mobile phone. They trick the carrier into switching.
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And someone had mentioned to me in a recent presentation
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that one of the larger cell phone carriers was moving
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towards not having any SIM cards at all, and I
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haven't had the chance.
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Anybody knows more about that, or if a lot of
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the cell phone carriers are moving towards not having an
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actual SIM card and I don't know if this is
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the reason because of the simswap scam, let me know,
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you know, shoot me an email and let me know
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what you know about this, or maybe show me some
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sources where I can go.
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Look this up.
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But I am going to be looking into that. That's cryptocurrency,
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that's critical infrastructure. So this talks about the different Let's
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see what that's called.
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Ransomware.
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I'm going to go all the way down to the
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I think it's on like page forty or forty four.
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Let's see here to get to here's the elder fraud report,
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the sixty year old and older.
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Remember I said when we looked.
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At all age groups, it was I believe it set
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a twenty six percent increase in losses from twenty twenty
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four to twenty twenty five. Look at what it is here,
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fifty nine percent increase from twenty twenty four for the
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sixty year old and older population. The number of victims