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They got stuff to do.
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right, so I've got some scams for you. Oh, you do? I've got
some scams. I do too. Oh, looks like someone named Kiwi test
popped in. So maybe kiwi is working? Yes. Oh, okay. So
there's so many good and like, very clever scams out there.
And, of course, most of them are to just get money out of people.
And we've got the ones that you really can just like easily
avoid, like fake social media, network, email, social network
email, like, when you get a, you get a thing that says it's from
Facebook. And then you click it. So basically, the moral of that
stories, don't click anything in any emails that you don't
absolutely know where it is. And here's a tip, I have a couple of
tips this week. If there's a link in an email, hover over it
with your mouse, and make sure that the URL that it's actually
going to, is the URL that says it's going to because they try
and get you. Like, they'll have microsoft.net, but there's like
two eyes in Microsoft, like Microsoft, right, Microsoft,
or Microsoft, but it's like micro dot s, f t, or s dot s o
f, like, you know.
That's funny. You know what I mean? Ya know, tweet, they
misspell it, because they went and bought the fraudulent
domain. Never open attachments and email. These are all easy
ways to get people who don't know what they're doing on a
computer. I work in it.
Yeah, I see. He complains.
So here's one that I had to warn you about recently. Oh, yeah,
the free Wi Fi hot Wi Fi. That's, that's actually
appropriate. Wi Fi hotspot. I've told you about this is like
don't don't just go connecting to any hotspot that you. Yeah,
how it works criminal sets up an open Wi Fi hotspot in a coffee
shop or airport that's connected up to their computer, maybe they
have a laptop with them. And so it's like, I'll take my phone
and name the phone wherever I am like Starbucks. And then like
our zip code, or whatever store number it is or something like
that. And people will connect to my phone as a Wi Fi hotspot. And
then when you're connected to my route, my phone's a router,
essentially, when you're connected to that, if I were the
bad guy, I can do stuff with all of that it's coming off of your
phone and going into your phone. Like there's things called
packet sniffers. And there's, you know, basically you can get
hacked. You don't want your phone to get hacked. Now, here's
another one. This is a computer scam. It's the pop up scareware.
So like you're using, you're using your browser, right? And,
yes, the Wi Fi hotspot is a man in the middle attack. They did
it on the show silicon valley, not for kids. They did that. And
at one point during the show, they did a man in the middle
attack at like a tech convention or something. So pop up
scareware I actually see this one a lot in my in my day job.
They you'll you'll click a link or you'll end up on a website.
And the website will go fullscreen and it will start
playing a loud recording. It's like your your your browser's or
your computer's infected, call Microsoft at this number and
they give you a phone number to call. And what happens is people
will call the phone number or start clicking all the you know,
fix this computer McAfee will fix this for you. And they click
the McAfee button and it takes them to something that does
infect them with a virus or they download something and it
infects them. Or if they call the number. The person on the
other end will say oh yes, we can fix this. Just press this
button and it will close all this stuff. And then say they'll
say go to this website. And basically the website lets them
into your computer. It does like a remote desktop connection. Oh
yeah. And then once they are in your computer, that's it. They
win. Yeah, because they're controlling your computer.
I watch a lot of things on like the scams actually on YouTube.
Like Mark Rober did a lot of their whole series actually.
What
sorry with no warning, you have a virus Call, call and pay now
warning you AB virus, because it's always like a robot voice
you know? Ai Okay, so what were you saying? Markiplier? Well,
Mark Rober Mark Rober. He did a whole series on him getting
revenge on people that were porch pirates recently did
recently like a year or two ago. But he did one where he sent
them to the scam companies that will try and take money from you
over the phone.
Yeah, I heard about that. There was a guy that does that. He's a
really good hacker. And he turns the hacking around on the
scammers. Yeah, and he'll get into their webcams. He'll get
into their webcams and wow, and find out exactly where they are
and all this stuff.
Have we done one on viruses yet?
I don't think so. I think we've talked about them just in
conversation because we get off track a lot. Let's be honest.
Well done right now.
We're scamming these people out of their time.
So you know Mental Floss. We love Mental Floss. We love
Mental Floss. On this website on Mental Floss well, more reading
off of it has, how it works and how to avoid it. So we will read
both to help you.
As you're browsing the web, a pop up window alerts you that
your computer has in fact been infected with viruses and worms.
It encourages you to scan your device for specific anti virus
software program and then offer to clean bogus bugs off for a
small fee. If you download the program, it installs malicious
software on your device and the con artists then have your
credit card information. How to Avoid
do not click on any links in popup ads. Install a robust,
trusted antivirus program on your computer and run regularly.
Also install popup blockers in your browsers to prevent these
scams from ever reaching you keep the important files on our
computer backed up to an internal external drive just in
case
if you're smart, the Windows Defender Antivirus is just fine.
If you're not doing stupid stuff. Also, if you're not
opening up ports on your router, if you're not there's risky
behavior that you can do that's not super risky if you know what
you're doing security wise. But if you're just if a game you
download tells you to open up a port on your router, be doing a
little reading. Just do a little reading on it before you before
you start doing especially if you get advised to open that
port on some forum it's uh, you know, just just be mindful of
what you're clicking on. Yeah. So
the unexpected friend request a scammer duplicates your social
network profile belonging to a friend and then adds you once
you confirm a con artist has access to personal information
that can be used to hack into your bank accounts such as your
birthday parents names, and pet's names. They can also then
send out malicious links they would that you would be tempted
to click and request for money.
Yeah, so these I don't have a lot of social media anymore. A
lot of the stuff out there on social media that I've seen
though, I've seen like polls that's like, you know, what was
your you know, your dragon name, or whatever is your mother's
maiden name, plus the street you grew up on. And then like
another poll will be, you know, your, your action hero name is
your first pet's name is your first pet's name plus your
birthday plus your Social Security.
No, right? Like that one posts on Facebook. Like, oh my gosh,
Facebook, will will bleep out your social security number.
Oh, yeah, I did that one time on Facebook just to see who would
who would do it. I posted a post that said, Oh my gosh, this is
so weird. And then I put star star star star star star star
star star. So if you put your Facebook password into any of
your posts, like exactly, it'll start out and nobody will be
able to see it. And like five people replied with their
passwords. And then they're like, is it blinked out for you?
I'm seeing it. I'm like,
oh my okay. So servo said nice try FBI. Yeah. My FBI agent. I
liked the idea of everyone has their own FBI agent. So my FBI
agents got to be really confused. Because I do a lot of
like, caused by makeup. And I did one recently where I don't
want to have scars on his face. So my my FBI agent, man, he's
gonna be so confused. You good?
Yeah, there was something said in chat and I'm looking at,
you know your meme.
Yeah. Go ahead. Oh,
okay, John, you're Oh, you're gonna accept friend requests
from strangers. If someone you were already friends with ads,
you as a friend, reach out to them offline, confirm whether or
not they have a second account. Do not share private information
that could use to crack down your bank security questions
online. If you go out of town, wait until you return to post
about it. You never know if one of your friends accounts is
compromised.
Oh, man, Hunter two apparently that thing that I did on
Facebook? I didn't come up with that.
Yeah, you didn't.
I thought I had came up with it on my own.
Ideas are never. They're
all just floating out there in the ether. And we just pull them
down.
I went well, it says the original idea.
The origin is 2004. So I probably did hear about it at
some point. And then just remembered it a decade later.
And did it. That's funny. So we got we got an idea for a shirt.
Do we already mentioned this last episode? No. It's a canned
episode. It is. So Lila was sitting here listening to the
live know about this
right? And you'll you'll probably hear this again. If you
listen to the Canada episode, which we'll release one week.
Lila's got to have some mouth surgery in the future and
probably late after March. Yeah. Well, we'll we'll talk about
that later. But I'm Phaedra was talking to Lila about something.
And was she was making a joke or something like a really bad joke
or quoting something. Anyway, you were you're not having it.
In a joking way. This is all in a very fun joking way. And
Lila's. Tell them what you said.
I was like, Shut up respectfully. Because I didn't
want to disrespect my mom like that. No one should ever
disrespect our mom like that.
Respectfully. So we have some T shirts now. And we're opening up
a shop probably this week. It's probably just going to be me
this media.threadless.com Yes, I have to get I have to make
verify that but I'm pretty sure that's what I said it as the
store is not live yet because I'm adding a few more things for
me just pod. But yeah, so we've got to shut up respectfully
shirt, like a microphone on it. And then FunFactFriday.com Of
course,
so right now, I'm having like reverse tinnitus in my ears.
Everything dull sounding.
Well, you know how sometimes with tinnitus, you get like the
ringing for like, a few seconds like really hard. That's
happening to me right now. But instead of it being like a
really, really high pitched sound, it's a really, really low
frequency sound. That's interesting. Yeah. It's like
when maybe got some fluid near here. Maybe? I don't know. It
started in like second period today.
That's weird. Yeah. I hope everything's all right.
In my worm or
a spider in your year,
might, yeah. Might be the hurricane might be E and just
trying to taunt me.
I got Oh, a hurricane here.
The pressure isn't any different than the year
in the year, a cup or a cup of work. That's an inside joke.
Yeah, I could tell. I didn't
understand. So scams go back, you know, as long as humanity
does. So there's, there's a lot of tried and true old scams. And
some of them are pretty clever. And the assaulting the gold
mine, or assaulting the mine is an old scam. Basically, you can
just call it salting. Basically, somebody is trying to sell land
that has a mind on it. And they'll go in and sprinkle
around some gold. Just a little bit, you know. So some
prospector will come out and be like, Oh, I see little flecks of
gold here and there. There's, you know, there's gold and
there's dirt. And then they'll buy it and there's no gold
there. You know? So that's an old scam. It's called salting.
There's the money box scheme. Have you heard of this? Oh, so
you, you have to, like be dealing in like, with shady
people. Yeah. And you invent a or you have a box that prints
money, essentially, like just a money printer. Right? But you
have to preload it with a couple of $100 bills. So you can
demonstrate If you build a box, sorry about that, folks, I was
too far away from the slider. So you tell them, Look, this
doesn't, I'll sell this, I just, I gotta get, I gotta get rid of
this thing. Like, give me give me $100,000. And I'll give you
this box. And they're loaded up with like $10,000 worth of $100
bills, like pre loaded, and then show them, look, this prints
$100 bills, but I've got to get out of the country, I got
somewhere to be, but I need this money right now. Blah, blah,
blah, here's where you get the paper, here's, you know, blah,
blah, it's just as big in the everything's got to be urgent,
everything's got to be, you know, look, you're getting over
on me by only getting 100,000 For this, you know, are only
paying 100,000 for this. And then you give it to them. They
try it out for a little while it's spitting out $100 bills,
and then it just started spitting out blank paper. But
you're gone. You know, you got to you also, if you're doing a
lot of these scams nowadays, that you're really going to be
getting somebody you can't ever have a social media presence
ever again. You can't ever let anybody take pictures of you.
It's kind of you gotta go into isolation after a couple of
these scams. There's an old Oh, one of the ones my buddy who
works in a bank told me he would have people come in and complain
that they had gotten scammed online, and that they had like
anti scam protection on their bank account or whatever. And
they wanted to like file a complaint or call the cops or
whatever, to try and get their money back. Or what it was, is,
there would be a loan, a personal loan website, right.
And they would go through the whole personal loan process and
put in their their information and everything to get $1,000
loan. And at the end of the loan thing, it says okay, to submit
your loan, it's a $40 loan submission fee, or application
submission fee. How would you like to pay for your application
submission, right, and they put in their credit card number or
their debit card number, and pay the $40? Well, they would get
denied. And the reason that this company online could do this, is
because they would give somebody $1,000 loan, if they met their
criteria? Well, they set the criteria at you have to have a
net worth of over a million dollars. And you have to have a
literally perfect credit score in order to get this $1,000
loan. And they know people looking for $1,000 loan are not
going to have those things. So technically, they're not doing
anything illegal by collecting this $40 fee. But it certainly
is scummy you know, it's just like that one, but but my buddy
was like there's nothing we can do. It's a legitimate website.
They legitimately will give somebody $1,000 loan, they have
a lending, Id whatever. So yeah, that was it was pretty, pretty
scummy scam.
I know that this doesn't have too much to do with what we were
talking about. But there was a Amazing World of Gumball episode
where the dad accidentally robbed a bank. And they had to
figure out what to do with all the money.
Give it back to the
Okay, so they were thinking it over. And, of course, the kids
had different ideas in the parents. But basically, the dad
didn't know this was what was going on. But the mom wanted it
for like vacation and retirement, which is that's
reasonable, but you stole the money. So they didn't know what
to do. So they put it a little suitcase, and they brought it
over to the bank. And they just gave it back without looking
inside of it. Because they're like, Hey, you lost your stuff.
Do you love your suit? Can
you let you see case here?
That reminds me there was an episode of Frasier where they
gave the dad Martin too much money. Like they gave him an
extra $100 when he pulled the money out or whatever. And he
went back up to the teller I was like, Hey, you made a mistake.
And the teller was like really rude to him. I was at bars, and
it was really rude to him was like, I didn't make a mistake.
And he's like, okay. So he comes back later and tries to give it
back to him. And they ended up giving him another $100 Because
they think he's complaining that they shorted him 100 Anyway, he
ended up getting like $10,000 from the because yeah, so he
thought he was getting scammed. There's a the shortchange
artists. I had one of those try and pull that on me one time.
They come in and ask for change for a like a 20. And then when
you go to break the 20 I can't remember how it goes. But it's
just basically being really fast talking and picking up money and
dropping money and changing what you want to do and all this. And
I had somebody try and do that to me one time, when I was like,
17, we're going to register somewhere. And I realized that
something was wrong, because it just felt wrong, you know? And
I'll say, Okay, stop. I'm going to we'll take this register back
to the back, and I'm going to count it and make sure it's, you
know, the tail is what it should be in here. And then we're going
to start over if you really need change. And he's like, no, no,
I'm good. I'm good and walked out. I was like, I'm not. I'm
not you know, we're not we're not playing this game. I'll shut
down the whole store, and go count this money. You're not
scamming me at 10 bucks. Yeah. I'll get fired. Because you
know, I was a kid.
So this one reminds me of a dark man episode, the health some the
help someone in need scam. Media, say a media savvy scam
artists sets up a crowdfunding page or charity website related
to the topic that is getting lots of news coverage, it could
be related to a natural disaster like Hurricane Maria, or a viral
story about a person in need. They convince people to share
the link on social media and send you emails about
contributing to the cause. If you click on the link and donate
money, using a bank card scam, artists consent can steal your
bank information and drain your account to sell it to others who
will, how to avoid it. Don't click on links you receive via
email, or those with suspicious web addresses linked on social
media to donate to someone in need search with a charity and
go directly to the official site. Confirm that you're in the
right place and then secure the URL should appear with the https
colon slash slash at the beginning before handing over
your bank card. Information.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So basically be smart. A lot of
times something will feel wrong. If it is, yeah. Yeah. There's an
old saying, trust your gut.
It's amazing to their age, it causes just to make sure that
you're on the right website. And you know what you're putting
your money into. Because it might be going to the anti cars
are just some random guy on the internet.
Speaking of scams, we hit a milestone. Oh, we did. We now
legally have to tell the government about the income we
received for this show. Yay. We've reached a point it says
yeah, it's exciting. But we also don't want to get a I don't want
to be on the wrong side of the law on that.
Tax evasion. Yeah.
Can't fight that.
We can, though. That gets
you there. Gotcha. I'm trying to think of the other ones that
that are interesting scams, that that's completely slipping my
mind right now.
If you're a little web, like your Microsoft virus projector
comes up your screen says you had a virus, but it's from like
Chrome. Yep.
That's part of the Cricut. That's part of the other one I
was talking about. The what was it called? Where to go?
Unexpected for? Fake social media. Oh, pop up. scareware.
Yeah, yeah. Because if you've got a notification set on your
computer for Chrome, or brave, or Internet Explorer, or
whatever your web browser is, if you've got a forest, you've got
notification setup. If you go to certain sites, and they won't do
it while you're on the site. No, they'll drop cookies on. Yeah.
And like later on, when you're on another site, I do it like a
few days later, right? You'll get a pop up saying your
antivirus has found a virus on your computer, click here to
clean it off. And if you click there, it takes you to one of
those scam sites that you're basically letting them into your
computer, and you'll get ransomware the ransomware is
yeah, I'm gonna explain it. You're always supposed to be
like, No, Dad, tell me what that is. I'm glad you glad you asked.
Ransomware is it basically encrypts your entire computer.
And then you have to pay somebody to unencrypted. And it
gets it gets it gets it happens. Sometimes, I'll see. I'll get
emails that say, you know, I've seen that you've been doing bad
stuff on your computer. I'm going to tell your boss about
it. Unless you send me you know $1,000 With a Bitcoin. Yeah, and
the thing about Bitcoin is you can go look up any bitcoin
wallet and see its transactions. So the bitcoin wallet that they
told told me to send the money to in this scam email, I went
and checked it on the blockchain explorer and saw that it had
already gotten 11 people to send 1000 bucks where the Bitcoin to
say made $11,000 By sending out some scam emails. Wow plus
whatever plus whatever the difference is because this was a
while back so bitcoins worth way more Now speaking of which boost
please we have taxes
yeah yeah I'm not looking forward to doing it either
because I gotta figure out all this Bitcoin stuff with taxes
I have buzzing tinnitus even buzzing it's like a low hum
Yeah, I think you've probably got some fluid in your ear.
Yeah, but if I had to guess,
give me a hurricane Ian.
So hurricane Ian. Oh, he's no fun Ian in the air. It's because
he's got an eye and your urine. Urine.
We got some urine. Urine.
All right. Well, I think I think that's all for scams. What do
you think? Do we have anything else we need to talk about? Send
us some ideas. Please. Please. We need ideas for shows. This is
this is a plead from the heart. I don't have any sad music to
play. I do. But this is a plea from the heart. We have we have
trouble each and every week. When trying to decide what the
show should be. We do so are you gonna play the arms of an angel?
Know from Sarah McLaughlin. Oh, there yeah. See, it's just such
a
people have a live studio audience. You got the amazing
when you find a studio audience, I could do that. Yeah.
You. I didn't like that
mean either. You shouldn't have done that.
Alright, so what's your favorite scam? Oh, go ahead.
I was. Yeah.
What's your favorite scam?
I don't I don't know. You don't know. I like viruses by viruses.
Yeah, virus isn't my favorite.
I like the scams, where you've got two people in on it. And the
Mark doesn't know that two people are in on Markiplier?
Yes. Markiplier? No, the mark is the person who you are scamming.
So like, you'll have two people in on it. But to the person that
you're actually scamming, it doesn't look like you know each
other. It looks like Person A is scamming Person B. And then the
mark comes in. And then Person B and the mark come up with a plan
to scam A and then A is like I'm calling the cops because you're
trying to scam me. And then Person B talks the mark into
paying Person A did not call the cops, you know, like stuff like
that. So you're getting it's two people working together. But in
the eyes of the mark, they're working against each other. You
know? It's interesting, the way that they it's called a con
game, because it it's confidence you're building confidence in
this person. And then taking their money away from them.
Yeah. So that's a that's that's a scam. What do you what do you
think?
Yep. That's a scam. So
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