May 12, 2026

Yikes! The 2025 FBI data is not good!

Yikes! The 2025 FBI data is not good!

We still have work to do. The 2025 IC3 report is out from the FBI and it is not good. Join us as we dig through the report and see what scams caused the most damage for 60+ year old and older population in 2025. Let’s Talk About Scams is broadcast...

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We still have work to do. The 2025 IC3 report is out from the FBI and it is not good.

Join us as we dig through the report and see what scams caused the most damage for 60+ year old and older population in 2025.

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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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purposes only and is not a substitute for individual professional

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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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It stayed kind of even from two thousand and one

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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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You can see it in the highlights here at the

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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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Goes down even further the forty to forty nine.

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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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To go look that up. So if if.

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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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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

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was a thirty seven percent increase. Here's the graph, and

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we actually have this graph in our presentations. Again, this

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goes back to twenty eighteen to nineteen. It kind of

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stayed pretty even through twenty twenty twenty one, it went

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up a little bit. Then it starts to creep in

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twenty twenty two, twenty three, it stays similar to twenty two,

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but now look at twenty four, it creeps up, and

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now twenty five we're almost up to eight billion dollars

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in reported losses. And this age group has a tendency

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to maybe only about fifteen to twenty percent are going

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to actually report. So multiply that out by five by six,

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you know, forty billion, fifty billion, seventy five billion, pick

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a number. But it's just outrageous as to the actual

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amount of losses. So let's look at the crime and

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this is by complaints. So the number one complaint was

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this fishing and spoofing. And we talked about phishing, right,

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it's the tricking you via email. They could trick you

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via text message, they can trick you, you know, via voicemail,

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all that stuff, but spoofing they can we know they've

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been able to spoof the names for a long time,

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but you know, in the last I don't know, five

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years on average, maybe they're also able to spoof phone numbers.

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So and you might think, well, you know, well we

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had let me step back here. They had silence on

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known callers as an option in your phone settings on

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both Android and Apple phones, where it would silence calls

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based on the phone number. If the phone number was

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not in your contacts, it would silence the calls and

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send them to voicemail or put the text in a

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totally different folder. Now they've updated it and it's screen

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unknown callers, and it gives you the option you can

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never screen. You could have it ask a question before

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it rings through to get an answer to screen the call,

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or you can say silence. But let's think about it.

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If someone was in your phone in the background, say

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you accidentally clicked on a link and it put malware

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on your mobile phone, and now that scammer is in

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the background to your phone, or let's say the whole

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simswap scam. They were able to get your carrier to

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switch your account over under their control, and now they

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can see everything that you're doing. Are they going to

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have access to your contacts? Absolutely, they will, and now

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they can make the that's a more targeted attack where

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they now have the phone number and the name to

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make it all the more legitimate.

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But let's talk about apps.

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So I think most people have downloaded at least one app,

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if not multiple apps on their phone. Well, when you

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go to down load one and please only download from

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the verified app stores like the Google Play Store, the

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App Store, a lot of times it'll ask you the

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app wants certain permissions for you to grant them certain permissions.

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They want to know your contexts, they want to know

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your location. Well, does the app really need to have

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this information to work most of the time. No, they

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just want this information and they could use it for

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more targeted advertising. They could take this data and sell

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it to other marketing advertising companies for targeted advertising based

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on what you're doing your location.

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If you've granted access to your context, now maybe they

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could start target marketing to your contact list. But you

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have to be careful, don't just ignore those and just

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keep hitting yes and yes, you're going to grant that

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stuff just so you can get the app downloaded. And

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if you're not sure what permissions you've granted those apps

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that you've already downloaded, go into your settings and then

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go to apps and it's going to have you can

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look at each individual app, open it up and it'll

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show you what permissions that you've granted, and then you

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can take away the permissions that are not absolutely necessary.

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And if you come across an app that it says

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it's absolutely necessary that they have to know your contacts,

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or your location or something else that you might not

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want to share, just to ask yourself the question, am

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I willing to take that risk of sharing this information

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in order to have this app? And that's a decision

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that you'll have to make, so just be careful with

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the spoofing. Tech Support is the next one that we know,

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customer support. Tech support they keep changing their techniques to

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keep us on our TOES investment. We talked about that

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as well, the personal data greach the confidence romance and

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you can go all the way down through this list

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cryptocurrency descriptors it plays and now they've added AI related

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So out of these number of complaints, there were over

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three thousand of them that had an AI component to it.

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And the crimes against children. Some of these older adults

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are getting scammed using descriptors of crimes against children. But

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cryptocurrency is still a big one.

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There are a lot.

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Of cryptocurrency atm machines in the state of Arizona. Some

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states have actually and I think the most recent one

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I read about that have banned all cryptocurrency machines in

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the state was Minnesota, if I'm not mistaken, and there's

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a few other states that have banned them as well.

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Arizona has not banned them, but they've put a new

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law that went into effect at the end of last

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September that has a lot more safeguards with the cryptocurrency

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machines that the owner operators have to adhere to.

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You know, like, yes, there might.

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Be physical warning signs on the machines, but now as

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you go through your transaction, you've actually got to agree

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that you understand these warnings that it could be a

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scam and all of this stuff.

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And that's great, but.

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In my opinion, and I've never used one of these machines,

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so this is just in my opinion that if somebody

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is still in the emotional state where they're at one

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of those machines feeding it one hundred dollars bills or

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you know, twenty dollars bills, whatever it is, that they're

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still emotional, and are they really reading those warning signs

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and understanding them or are they just clicking through to

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get the end result, which is to get the transaction

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done so they can fix whatever problem.

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That they believe has occurred.

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But then there's also that the account you're sending the

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money to, there has to be that account number on

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your receipt. You get the receipt, and if you realize

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within thirty days and report it that you were a

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victim of a scam using one of those machines, you

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have your receipt, it's been under thirty days since that

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transaction happened, and you go file a report with local

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law enforcement.

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In the Attorney General.

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There's a chance that you can get your money refunded.

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They've also put limits on first time users and reoccurring

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users on how much you can put in at any

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given time, so just bear that in mind. You can

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just google Arizona cryptocurrency KIOSK law. I don't remember the

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number of the law, but it'll come up and you'll

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be able to see the actual every single detail of

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that new law that went into effect. These are with losses. Now,

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these are the sixty year old and older losses. As

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they said in the initial letter at the beginning of

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this report, investment scam is the number one. Look at

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the difference in the losses three point five billion dollars,

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and the next one is the tech support which is

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just over a billion. And then there's that romance one

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again it's half a million. Artificial intelligence has a lot

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to do with this. Look at the amount of losses

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AI related three hundred and fifty two thousand, the cryptocurrency

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over four billion. So you know with the romance scam,

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you know with the AI scammers, they are going to

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be a lot more apt to come on camera and

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want to do a video call with you because through

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those deep fakes, they can actually make themselves look like

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the p pictures they've been sending you. And with artificial

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intelligence software getting better and better and better, it's just

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going to be harder and harder to determine whether it's

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legitimate or not, which is why we must always, always

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always verify, do your research, do your due diligence, verify

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before you can even begin to trust that what you're

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looking at, what you're listening to, what you're reading is

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actually legitimate. Here's a three year comparison by victims from

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twenty twenty three to twenty twenty five. This looks like

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it's in alphabetical order, so you'd have to scroll down

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through all of it.

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Again.

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Fishing and spoofing started out in twenty twenty three, kind

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of low, and then how it's crept up.

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Same thing with.

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Confidence romance and then and the investment is right here

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that one crept up as well. Simswap is really small,

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but it's gaining traction and I'm hoping we can combat this,

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but we might end up seeing this simswap go up

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in future years. The tech support it continues to go up,

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so the AI related they haven't. They didn't capture that

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in twenty twenty three or twenty twenty four, but if

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they had captured it, I think we would see it

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the same trend that it's going up. You can see

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the cryptocurrency started out at around seventeen thousand and now

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it's all the way up to forty two thousand. Here's

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by losses. Again, this is alphabetical order, so you'd have

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to scroll down. But look at the investment it was

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under fifty percent of what it is now just two

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years ago. And then the romance it was a little

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bit more than fifty percent of what it is now.

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But the tech support it's a little under fifty percent

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as well. But that investment scam is the one that

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is really really on a rapid increase here.

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So now let's break it down by states.

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And I had it in my head before I got

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to this screen, and I didn't think about it until

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after I already got there. I was going to say,

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who wants to bet California, Florida, and Texas are in

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the top three. Sure enough, they are. I had already

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seen it they are, so Unfortunately they usually usually are.

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Arizona is always in the top ten. Actually we're number

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four in a number of complaints. Arizona in Florida has

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a huge retired population, So yes, we have more people

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that are sixty years old and older, and in Florida

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and Arizona we get a lot of that generation that

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comes to our states for part of the year, and

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so if they become a victim of a crime while

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they're living here, they're going to report it as Arizona

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or Florida. California just has a huge population to begin with.

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In Texas has a huge population as well, and they

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also I'm not as familiar with Texas if they have

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a huge retired population. But you can see where your

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state falls into this. And actually, if you wanted to

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go look at those prior years, you know, I like

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to look at it from like twenty twenty to twenty

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twenty five, and in Arizona it's it's gone crazy and

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we're number we're number five this year with the number

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of losses three hundred and forty three million. Just in

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twenty twenty four it was one hundred and ninety one million.

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That's that at the beginning that graph that we showed you.

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Let me get back to it right here. Fifty nine

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percent it went up from twenty twenty four. That's in

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all states, but in Arizona it went up more.

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One hundred and ninety one million.

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To could do a quick calculation to three hundred and

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fifty three I thought I could do it quicker. Here

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eighty five percent, eighty to eighty five percent increase in

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the number of losses in just one year. Let me

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get back over here here it is three hundred and

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forty almost three hundred and forty four million.

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So and that's just in one year. Now.

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This is my opinion that I think, you know, we've

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been out there doing our workshops and our presentations for

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let's see here since the beginning of twenty twenty two,

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so this is the fourth year that we've been doing them.

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So I, and part of what we do is we

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talk about why it's good to report, you know, so

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it helps law enforcement find the people. It adds pieces

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to their puzzle. Even if you didn't lose money, your

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experience could add pieces to their puzzle, and it helps

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them gather evidence to hopefully prosecute these people and put

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them away for a long time. But so I, in

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my opinion, I think more of this population is starting

470
00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:26.319
to actually report. But I think a bigger part of

471
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:28.599
it is artificial intelligence.

472
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.160
I think that is really really.

473
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:36.759
Making well, it is making it difficult to decipher what's

474
00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:42.279
legitimate versus a scam. But this is technology that you know,

475
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.519
the sixty year old and older population, you're going to

476
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.559
get some of them that know very little about technology.

477
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:51.319
You get some of them that know some of us

478
00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:54.359
that know a lot about technology. I'm not one that

479
00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:57.400
knows a lot about technology, but I'm in the middle,

480
00:30:57.839 --> 00:30:59.640
and you're going to get a wide variety of us

481
00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:02.920
that are all throughout that continuum. And so now you're

482
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:06.440
adding this artificial intelligence to it and then having to

483
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:10.240
understand that's a big undertaking trying to understand how artificial

484
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:14.200
intelligence works in all of that, and so it makes

485
00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:18.279
things all the more believable when it really is actually

486
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:20.480
a scam. So I think that has an even bigger

487
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:24.319
role in it. But you know, do your comparison. So,

488
00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:27.079
like I said a few minutes ago, I've you know,

489
00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:30.599
Arizona's losses in twenty twenty one or twenty twenty that

490
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:35.079
was reported was twenty seven million, and now in twenty

491
00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:38.599
twenty five it's up to three hundred and forty three million.

492
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:43.680
So that's that increase three hundred and sixteen million dollars.

493
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:53.400
That percentage is over one thousand, over eleven hundred percent

494
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:59.039
increase from twenty twenty to twenty twenty five. That is

495
00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:07.319
all that is just devastating. They also do cryptocurrency. This

496
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:11.440
is something new that they've been putting in the last

497
00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:16.319
few years. But you can look at cryptocurrency losses by

498
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:19.519
age range. Look at this green horizontal bar. Here, the

499
00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:26.400
sixty plus population that reported losing money via crypto four

500
00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:30.079
point four billion dollars, and this is all of the

501
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:34.319
United States. The next population down, the fifty to fifty nine,

502
00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:39.319
was just over two billion. That's fifty percent less, and

503
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:42.759
then you keep going down. Okay, now look at this

504
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:45.200
what I talked about earlier. When we looked at the graph,

505
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.920
the thirty to thirty nine year old, they're up at

506
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:52.079
almost twenty eight thousand victims. The forty to forty nine

507
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:56.920
was just about thirty so they're pretty close. But if

508
00:32:56.920 --> 00:32:59.720
you look at the amount of losses for the thirty

509
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:02.640
and five forty year olds, the thirty year old's eight

510
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:06.519
hundred and sixty one million, the forty year olds one

511
00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:14.319
point five billion, and then look at the jump to

512
00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:19.039
the sixty plus year old. So it's just there's a

513
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:22.240
there's a lot of victims in the younger age groups,

514
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:31.200
but they don't lose the same amount of money. So

515
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:34.960
let's look at some of these trends. The investment scam, again,

516
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:37.960
we've talked about that, it was the number one, but

517
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:45.839
cryptocurrency investment scams the sixty plus, the two point seven

518
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:54.000
billion dollars, but they it's been a forty with all populations,

519
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:56.160
it's been a forty eight percent increase in the number

520
00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:58.839
of victims and a twenty five percent increase in the

521
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.640
number of losses since twenty twenty four.

522
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:02.839
Now they.

523
00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:10.800
They have new Scam Center Strikeforce that battles the Southeast

524
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:19.480
Asian crypto investment fraud that target Americans. Cryptocurrency ATMs in Kiosk.

525
00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:23.119
If you want to know where these are at in

526
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:25.559
any state in the United States, you just need to

527
00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:30.800
look up like a map of cryptocurrency ATMs in Arizona

528
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:34.519
or Maricopa County, or Pennsylvania.

529
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.119
Or Nevada, or you know.

530
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:38.400
Just put your state, put your county in and you're

531
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.360
going to get a map as to where these things

532
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:42.639
are at. And if you look at it statewide or

533
00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:45.280
county wise, you're going to get an idea as to

534
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:48.000
how many of these are out there. The scammers know

535
00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:50.679
where they are at, and they stay on the phone

536
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:55.360
and they direct people to these machines and stay on

537
00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:57.599
the phone with them while they are putting the money

538
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:02.280
in the machine. Someone sent me a video in the

539
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:06.840
last week or two about and I believe it was

540
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.760
part of a video from a policeman's body cam.

541
00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:11.519
If I'm not.

542
00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:15.239
Mistaken or else, it was the person that was working

543
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:17.760
at I don't know if it was a gas station

544
00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:20.440
or wherever it was who had called the cops because

545
00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:24.599
they saw this older lady putting cash into a cryptocurrency

546
00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:26.840
atm and I don't remember what state it was in,

547
00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:30.280
but the policeman went over.

548
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:33.880
Well, the worker had said, she's already put.

549
00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:36.400
In like it was over two hundred thousand dollars, and

550
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:39.599
I'm just sitting there like, oh my gosh.

551
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:42.159
Wow. They had to have been there for a long time.

552
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:44.840
And the policeman went up to talk to the lady,

553
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:47.760
and you know, she was like, no, no, I need

554
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:50.960
to do this and I need to fix whatever problem

555
00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:51.360
it was.

556
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:54.239
And he said, well, can I have your phone?

557
00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:56.119
I want to talk to I think she said it

558
00:35:56.159 --> 00:35:59.360
was her bank maybe was on the phone with her,

559
00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:02.840
you know, And I talk to them and and I'm

560
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:05.079
surprised the scammer didn't just hang up, but he was

561
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:08.239
trying to convince the policeman that this was all legitimate

562
00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:10.679
and stuff. But they were able to stop her. She

563
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:17.760
had already lost over two hundred thousand dollars. It's just devastating. So, yes,

564
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:22.119
Arizona is making it harder. They're making I shouldn't. They're

565
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.440
making more of a making it more of a deterrent

566
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:26.239
because of all the additional steps the.

567
00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:27.800
Owner operators have to go through.

568
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:31.360
And then it's going to be interesting to see over

569
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:34.719
the next year how many people are able to get

570
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:39.719
their money refunded and what impact that has on these machines,

571
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:42.599
if we're going to start seeing them go away, or

572
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:46.320
because the owner operators aren't, you know, they're having to

573
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:50.559
refund a lot of money, or is the state seeing

574
00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:53.000
that maybe maybe we need to look at banning these

575
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:55.239
all together like some of these other states are doing.

576
00:36:55.639 --> 00:36:57.880
So we'll have to keep keep an eye out on that.

577
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:05.119
Recovery scams, Fictitious law firms targeting cryptocurrency scam victims. You know,

578
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:09.400
scammers impersonate anybody. They can impersonate a law firm, whether

579
00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:13.199
it's an actual legitimate law firm that they're impersonating, or

580
00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:15.719
they just make up a fake law firm saying that

581
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:18.559
if you pay us money, we can get your your.

582
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:21.239
Funds recovered.

583
00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:30.119
That's a cryptocurrency nexus.

584
00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:37.880
So this is cryptocurrent.

585
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:41.599
Oh, the cryptocurrency complaints by state, we dropped a few.

586
00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:45.199
We were number fourign complaints and we dropped a six

587
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:48.880
when it comes to cryptocurrency, New York and Pennsylvania moved

588
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:51.679
above us. So I have not checked to see how

589
00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:56.000
many cryptocurrency machines are in New York or Pennsylvania. I

590
00:37:56.000 --> 00:38:00.320
have a feeling there's a lot in New York, not

591
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:06.800
so sure about Pennsylvania. But California, Texas, and Florida are

592
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:11.320
still in the top three there and those losses with

593
00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:16.400
the cryptocurrency were number seven. New Jersey edged out and

594
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:21.199
went in number six there. But we're still in the

595
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:23.559
top ten in Arizona. And this is something that we

596
00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:28.119
still need to be very vigilant on. If anybody asks

597
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:31.920
you to put money into a cryptocurrency ATM machine, it

598
00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:32.880
is a scam.

599
00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:38.800
It is a scam.

600
00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:42.400
And then they explain what a bunch of these definitions

601
00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:45.400
and descriptors are if you want to read them to

602
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:54.000
get more information on them. But that's it for the report.

603
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:59.800
As I said in the show description that those numbers

604
00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:06.679
are not good. Let me stop sharing my So it

605
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:09.880
was a police body cam at the gas station, and

606
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:13.320
it was that video I told you about in it,

607
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:16.639
they were saying they were bank security. So just know

608
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:21.159
if anybody wants is if anybody is asking you about

609
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:27.159
to put money into a cryptocurrency ATM machine, it is

610
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:27.880
a scam.

611
00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:30.159
It is absolutely a scam.

612
00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:34.639
Those crypto in my understanding, those cryptocurrency ATM machines were

613
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:39.079
really put out there for people that didn't have any

614
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:41.920
banking relationship and so it was a way for them

615
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:43.880
to be able to invest in crypto.

616
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:46.360
And again this is just my opinion.

617
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:49.960
If someone does not have a relationship with a bank,

618
00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.719
meaning they only go in there to get a money

619
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:55.199
order and they give cash, or they go in there

620
00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:58.800
to cash a paycheck and they just keep their money

621
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:01.800
at home, however they ca keep it that if they

622
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:04.320
don't have a relationship with a bank, I don't think

623
00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:07.079
they're investing in the stock market, so therefore I don't

624
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.119
think they want to invest in cryptocurrency.

625
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:13.239
Again, my opinion, maybe I'm wrong.

626
00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:16.239
If you know, if you're somebody or you know of

627
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:20.440
somebody that deals just in cash but they invest in crypto,

628
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:23.920
let me know, because maybe maybe I'm out in left

629
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:26.719
field with my opinion. But that's again that's just my opinion.

630
00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:30.679
So anyways, I really want this to hit home. I'm

631
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:32.800
not trying to scare you guys, but I want you

632
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:36.000
to understand just how big of a problem this is,

633
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:39.320
and it continues to be a big problem, and we

634
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:45.800
really really need to continue this fight against these scams,

635
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:50.039
and the education and the awareness plays a huge role

636
00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:54.000
in this. Our target market is the older adults. As

637
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:57.400
you saw in those statistics, they lose the most money

638
00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.960
by far and have the most victims.

639
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:02.320
The world is so much different.

640
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:06.480
Today than when we grew up. We had a lot

641
00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:10.239
of very good natured, kind hearted habits we formed and

642
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:13.480
when you put that all with the technology right world

643
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:16.039
that we live in today, and that the scammers are

644
00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:20.280
using all of that against us, we're trying to make

645
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:24.920
We're trying to cut into that what the scammers are doing.

646
00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:27.599
There's a lot of people out there that are making

647
00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:31.320
new technology and new apps to help out, and technology

648
00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:35.639
does play a role in this, and investigating and finding

649
00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:39.599
the people and prosecuting them plays a role in this

650
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:43.599
as well. Everybody plays a role, but I firmly believe

651
00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:48.280
the education and the awareness play a huge role because

652
00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:51.000
human behavior has a lot to do with scams and

653
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:54.519
emotions and so if we can get you to understand it,

654
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:57.840
be more aware of it, make your healthy skepticism, your

655
00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:01.840
scam prevention habits going to be more app to think

656
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:04.679
scam Okay, what do I need to do?

657
00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:07.960
Not panic? Follow through with the steps.

658
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:12.440
And make an informed, educated decision whether this is legitimate

659
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:15.119
or a scam. So with that, I will see you

660
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:18.599
back here next week, and don't forget to visit our website,

661
00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:21.960
click subscribe on our YouTube channel, and tune in next

662
00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:23.840
week for another episode.

663
00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:24.440
Thank you.

664
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:28.960
Well, that's all the knowledge for this episode. Tune in

665
00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:33.199
every Tuesday at eight am Pacific time on KFOURHD Radio

666
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:38.039
at KFOURHD dot com as Joyce explores a variety of knowledge.

667
00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:41.679
So you have the power to make scam protection your

668
00:42:41.800 --> 00:42:45.440
healthy habit. And until then, feel free to reach out

669
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:48.079
to Joyce and let's talk about scams.