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There's Finally a Website to Help You Manage Scammers · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is it a scam?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I just got from Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's Amazon. There's a text that came in from
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  Speaker 2: a weird number saying there's been a recall.
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  Speaker 1: Click here to find out. No, don't click it scammed.
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  Speaker 1: But then I started thinking it seemed legit.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm usually good at identifying scams. This looked legit
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  Speaker 2: that there may have been something that I purchased that
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  Speaker 2: got recall on Amazon wants to tell me that's what
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  Speaker 2: a kind thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it usually would email you and then it
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  Speaker 3: would have like your order number on there, or did
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  Speaker 3: you order something that hasn't come yet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But I can't click into its fine
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  Speaker 1: out because they're too scacters. It might be a scam.
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  Speaker 3: But now you can put into this website.
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  Speaker 1: What's the website?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's called scamwise dot com, and it basically analyzes
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  Speaker 3: the message, the website, the text.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: You can even explain it if you need to, Like
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  Speaker 3: I got like those FedEx letters in the mail, so
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  Speaker 3: I put it into this website explaining the whole situation,
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  Speaker 3: and indeed, in fact immediately confirmed that it was a scam.
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  Speaker 3: Don't pay the dues. All that stuff is just not real.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember me telling you about this?
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  Speaker 1: If that extent? Okay, yes, so I'm for this.
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  Speaker 2: I get also random texts, people going are you looking
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  Speaker 2: for a job or are you still up? Are not?
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  Speaker 1: You're still off? Are you?
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  Speaker 2: It's like they say, he oh, I'm in town. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in town, Like wait, who And then you kind
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  Speaker 2: of want to go, well, who's this phone number from
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  Speaker 2: the past?
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  Speaker 1: But is that a scam or is that just something.
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  Speaker 3: Scam wise dot com?
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  Speaker 1: Is there