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BASIC BLAQUE AFTER DARK live every 1ST & 3RD FRIDAY · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: So be careful when you see some of those dating apps.
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Speaker 1: You'll see things on Facebook telling you that mister Wright
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Speaker 1: is here under whatever apps name that they have find
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Speaker 1: certain kind of love or whatever those may be. And
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Speaker 1: they start to reel you in and to get the information,
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Speaker 1: and then you start sending pictures. Then you start telling
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Speaker 1: them where you live as far as the state, and
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Speaker 1: they'll tell you that they don't live too far from you,
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Speaker 1: or they used to live in that state, or they'll
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Speaker 1: come up with a name of a place that you
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Speaker 1: may have mentioned already on your Facebook. But let me
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Speaker 1: tell you, they have been watching you for a while.
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Speaker 1: They have been doing their homework. They've been getting relative names.
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Speaker 1: When they go on your social media platform, they see
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Speaker 1: who you are connected with. They do all sorts of things.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about social media, which is famous
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Speaker 1: for stans. Social medias they can take many forms, including
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Speaker 1: fake giveaways. I know you guys seeing them because I've
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Speaker 1: seen them a lot too. They're getting this away a
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Speaker 1: trip to here. Just send ten dollars or you've won
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Speaker 1: send them this amount of money or for the process
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Speaker 1: and fee to send you that gift that's worth over
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Speaker 1: five hundred dollars fishing attempts, which I mentioned earlier in
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Speaker 1: those romance scams. Again, they're on Facebook, they're on ig
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Speaker 1: I guess Instagram, they're on X They're on just every
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Speaker 1: platform you can think of. Because you're on there, you're
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Speaker 1: on there, but you're being genuine. You're speaking to your
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Speaker 1: friends and your family, and you're sharing pictures. You're saying
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Speaker 1: where you've been, You've been to the movies, you've been
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Speaker 1: out on islands, you're getting ready to take a vacation.
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Speaker 1: So is where you go right there, that's where it starts.
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Speaker 1: You're telling them where you're going, on them, who you're
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Speaker 1: going with. You're telling them more information then you should.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that you shouldn't share certain things
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Speaker 1: on social media, but be mindful. One of the things
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Speaker 1: that I have seen on social media is that impersonation
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Speaker 1: of scams. Sometimes I'll say me, I'll use me for instance,
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Speaker 1: I can have people on it that I know, and
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Speaker 1: then somebody will want to be my friend on social media,
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Speaker 1: so they'll what does that catfish somebody else and be
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Speaker 1: their friends. So now if I look at them, we
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Speaker 1: have one mutual friend and that's that person. But what
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Speaker 1: it is is that we both have that mutual friend
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Speaker 1: and they're both they're doing the same thing to both
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Speaker 1: of us. They're trying to get that information. So if
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Speaker 1: I see that that person has less than a certain
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Speaker 1: amount of friends, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna befriend you.
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Speaker 1: So please don't befriend me if you don't have a
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Speaker 1: certain amount of friends, because ten friends, that means those
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Speaker 1: a problem, ten people that you scammed. Some people may
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Speaker 1: say that you just started coming on social media. Come on, now,
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Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty five and you're just coming on social media.
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Speaker 1: Or maybe I had to get rid of that page
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Speaker 1: because somebody hacked into it. I believe at this point
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Speaker 1: right now, I've heard just about everything that is, and
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Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of homework trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out ways that I won't be scammed again and ways
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Speaker 1: that you won't be scammed. So impersonation is one. They
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Speaker 1: go into your DMS, they get your information. You post
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Speaker 1: pictures about your parents and your family and your connections
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Speaker 1: with cousins and places that you would work and things
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Speaker 1: that you do. To guess what's on that car your
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Speaker 1: license plate number. So now, if they're that good, they
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Speaker 1: can figure out where you live. It's already telling you
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Speaker 1: what states you're in, so now they're gonna figure out
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Speaker 1: what you where you live. You put a lot of
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Speaker 1: information on there, the date of birth, which we all do.
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Speaker 1: We celebrate each other, we say happy birthday to each other,
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Speaker 1: but that's still more information. I'm not telling you not
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Speaker 1: to share when your birthday is, but you don't have
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Speaker 1: to put the year. Some people even lying about it
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Speaker 1: and say that they were born one month and they
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Speaker 1: really wasn't, you know, just because of things like that
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Speaker 1: for scams, all of which aim to trip users into
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Speaker 1: sharing personal information. On money again, you want a prize,
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Speaker 1: just pay the shipping. Come on, now, pay the shipping
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Speaker 1: and they're going to send you something. So the shipping
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Speaker 1: could be four dollars, and they're telling you that you've
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Speaker 1: won a prize for five hundred dollars. Who do you
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Speaker 1: know that's gonna give away something worth five hundred dollars
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Speaker 1: just to collect four dollars. Make flag that's a scam.
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Speaker 1: It's unrealistic. Prizes they have poor grammar, and I don't
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Speaker 1: mean to call nobody. Yeah they name but these are
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Speaker 1: idiots or either I know. I was at the time,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be the first of a minute. Because
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Speaker 1: I was scammed, I call myself an idiot or either
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Speaker 1: a fool or somebody who just didn't know. But I'm
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Speaker 1: not calling you an idiot or what I'm doing is
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you some information so this won't
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Speaker 1: happen to you. So look for that poor grammar or
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Speaker 1: spelling in the post that doesn't even make sense, Like
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Speaker 1: what what are they talking about? What do they mean? Oh,
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Speaker 1: you know it was a typo. In my case, I say, oh,
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Speaker 1: my nail, so I'm using my knuckles. Well, for me,
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Speaker 1: it is my nail. So I will make some typos,
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Speaker 1: but I'll put down typo or I'll re do the
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Speaker 1: whole thing and tell you. But I'm not somebody that's
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Speaker 1: gonna scam you. But look for those typos. And they
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Speaker 1: request for personal information, like in social security numbers or
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Speaker 1: your bank details. Some people like to brag that they
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Speaker 1: got a certain amount of money in the bank, or
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Speaker 1: they open up a certain account with some they belong
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Speaker 1: to certain at unions and purchase they car and they
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Speaker 1: was able to get a house because they did this.
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Speaker 1: They did that, you're giving them too much information. If
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Speaker 1: that's something that you want to share with your friends,
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Speaker 1: congratulations that you brought the car and that you that
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Speaker 1: you got a new job and everything. But use old school.
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Speaker 1: Call them on the phone, let them know about your success.
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Speaker 1: That way, friend may go on there and say congratulations
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Speaker 1: about your success, but they don't have to mention what
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Speaker 1: it was. Urging requests for information. Oh, I really need
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Speaker 1: your social Security number right now because I got to
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Speaker 1: put it in by by midnight, otherwise you won't be
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Speaker 1: able to get the prize and it'll be going away.
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Speaker 1: I've heard that before. Suspicious links. Now, certain things may
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Speaker 1: be spelled a certain way. So I'll say, like my
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Speaker 1: name black blaqu each, So some people may be suspicious
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Speaker 1: because they'll say black is not spelt like that. Well,
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Speaker 1: this black is not the color that's my name. But
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Speaker 1: you may see things that may be a little off
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Speaker 1: like that. Check it out and request the verify accounts.
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Speaker 1: Outside of the official platform, you can verify accounts. What
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Speaker 1: you can do is you can connect with somebody or
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Speaker 1: connect with maybe that company to find out if that's
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Speaker 1: an official platform. Like I did with the book company
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Speaker 1: publishing company. I eventually went to the real place. I
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Speaker 1: contacted them instead of them always contacting me from that
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Speaker 1: number that they had. So I started going on the
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Speaker 1: internet and looking it up, and what I found was
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Speaker 1: that their information and their information was a duplicate. I'm
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Speaker 1: saying I would have to be a professional to be
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Speaker 1: able to tell what was the difference. You remember those
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Speaker 1: games sometimes you see in the newspaper when we was
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Speaker 1: reading newspapers where it would say that here's a picture
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Speaker 1: of something, and here's a picture of something. Can you
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Speaker 1: spot what's different in this picture and what's different in
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Speaker 1: this picture? There's ten things different. How many of you
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Speaker 1: only got through four because you couldn't spot some of
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Speaker 1: those other things. Well, that's what happens also when you're
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Speaker 1: being scammed. There's something about this picture and this picture
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Speaker 1: that they looked exactly the same, but there was something
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Speaker 1: in there that was different that my eyes just didn't catch.
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Speaker 1: Scammers create fake profiles. They mimic real individuals or organizations
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Speaker 1: to gain trust, and they asks for money or personal information.
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Speaker 1: And what is so sad is that they use children,
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Speaker 1: they use charities and they say that I'm with this,
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Speaker 1: that and the other. I'll say ABC for lung cancer
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Speaker 1: or for something with children and you can help. And
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Speaker 1: they'll show a picture of a child who's probably in
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Speaker 1: a photo that you can get from one of the
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Speaker 1: big stores, and they'll post it and say that that's
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Speaker 1: their child sick or dying or need surgery or something
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Speaker 1: like that. That's another rick flag. It was poorly written. Profile.
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Speaker 1: A lack of verification is sometimes they have a lack
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Speaker 1: of verification and badges that they send. They'll tell you
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Speaker 1: that you are one of the top people who got
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Speaker 1: a badge, and this, that and the other. The badges
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Speaker 1: are fake. They really don't belong to any organization or company.
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Speaker 1: So they requested money. They're saying that you have populated
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Speaker 1: to be their number one fan, and you're feeling good
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Speaker 1: because they're telling you you're number one, But what they're
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Speaker 1: really doing is requested money and sensitive information because now
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Speaker 1: that you're number one and you are fan, so that
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Speaker 1: you're thinking that, oh, we're cool, we're good, we're friends.
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Speaker 1: I'm always on their page, they're always on mind. Well,
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Speaker 1: they're always on yours for a reason because they want
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Speaker 1: that information. But there's one scam that just tickles me,
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Speaker 1: and that's the family emergency scam. Someone in your family
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Speaker 1: is ill. They'll tell you that they were injured or
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Speaker 1: been in an accident or the death or funeral of
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Speaker 1: an immediate or extended family member and they need the
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Speaker 1: money for a funeral costs. Let me ask you something.
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Speaker 1: If that's the case, why are you just hearing about
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Speaker 1: that family emergency when it comes to them dying all
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Speaker 1: that time and they were sick, Nobody called you to
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Speaker 1: tell you that uncle so and so was sick. Aren't
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Speaker 1: so and so passed away? And a family And when
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Speaker 1: I say the family, the family knows about it, not
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Speaker 1: just one person calling you. Now on social media, you
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Speaker 1: see people posting it that this person and passed away,
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Speaker 1: that person passed away and they need help, or they
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Speaker 1: do that go fund me, which I think is a
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Speaker 1: crime in itself for people to use gofund me. But
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Speaker 1: people are going so far as posting a person's picture,
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Speaker 1: and again it could be the picture from one of
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Speaker 1: those stores of saying that this is their relative. So
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Speaker 1: they'll get somebody that may be from the same culture,
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Speaker 1: I'll say of them, and they'll go so far as
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Speaker 1: making a flyer and they're putting a date on there,
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Speaker 1: and maybe they'll say, like their grandmother who was born
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Speaker 1: in nineteen I'll say nineteen fifty, and she passed away
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Speaker 1: on a certain day, And a lot of times they'll
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Speaker 1: say a current date and it's usually around a holiday
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Speaker 1: or something like that, and that's when they start reeling
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Speaker 1: you in because you're starting to feel bad. And then
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Speaker 1: they start to tell you that maybe it was a
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Speaker 1: week before their birthday, or maybe that person just turned
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Speaker 1: a certain age, and they're telling you where you can
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Speaker 1: send money for the funeral, and it's not the funeral home.
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Speaker 1: The flowers are not going there, and they're usually saying,
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Speaker 1: lieu of this, send that, or she didn't want flowers.
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Speaker 1: We really need the money to bury her or him
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Speaker 1: and get a tombstone, or we need to buy them
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Speaker 1: a suit or dress or whatever the case is, or
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Speaker 1: to help with maybe the transportation of people to get there.
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Speaker 1: So they have creative ways, and you'll see a flyer
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Speaker 1: and it's just as beautiful as can be and it
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Speaker 1: has all the fixings on there where you'll see the
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Speaker 1: date that they're gonna celebrate I don't want to say celebrate,
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Speaker 1: but celebrate that person's life. And they'll say that a
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Speaker 1: celebration in life, and they'll have a picture of them
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Speaker 1: here and all the details all around it, and you know,
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Speaker 1: beautiful colors and things like that, and they're rilling you in.
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Speaker 1: They're actually telling you that this some scammers who are
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Speaker 1: supposed to be your family and could very well be.
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Speaker 1: Look scammers are related to someone, and unfortunately that someone
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Speaker 1: may just be in your family. They even go so
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Speaker 1: far as to tell you that the stranded overseas or
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Speaker 1: they're stranded in another state, they lost their luggage, they
13:31
Speaker 1: lost a plane ticket, somebody lift their wallet. Everything, they'll
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Speaker 1: come up with that, and that you're the only one
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Speaker 1: who can help them. They will also insist that you
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Speaker 1: keep the situation a secret from other family members, and
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Speaker 1: that's preventing you from verifying the story. But the more
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Speaker 1: serious one is when they scam. The scammer claims that
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Speaker 1: your loved one has been kidnapped and they demand and
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Speaker 1: ran some money. Although this can happen and it can
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Speaker 1: be true, you should notify the authorities, even if they
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Speaker 1: tell you not to call the authorities. So don't try
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Speaker 1: to forego it by yourself. It could be dangerous because
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Speaker 1: in some cases it really could be that a family
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Speaker 1: member was kidnapped because you put so much information on
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Speaker 1: your social media that indicates that you have money, or
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Speaker 1: you come from money, or that you haven't like that.
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Speaker 1: So they figured, let's target this person. Either they're really
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Speaker 1: going to kidnap that family member of yours because they
14:38
Speaker 1: see the picture you're showing pictures of your kids. You're
14:42
Speaker 1: telling them that, oh, my little Johnny's just graduated fifth
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Speaker 1: grade at whatever whatever whatever elementary school. And they already
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Speaker 1: know what state you're in. So how hard do you
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Speaker 1: think it's going to be for them to see that
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Speaker 1: picture that you have of Johnny. You post a lot
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Speaker 1: of information up there, plus your pictures there. How far
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Speaker 1: do you think they'll go by trying to put themselves
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Speaker 1: into a picture with you so they can get to
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Speaker 1: your kids school and say, mom set to pick you up.
15:11
Speaker 1: And your kid may be hesitant because you taught them well,
15:14
Speaker 1: but now they're showing them a picture. You remember, I'm
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Speaker 1: uncle so and so Phone, I was at the birthday party.
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Speaker 1: Remember the birthday party that they had for Grandpa. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm your uncle so and so. These stammards are clever
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Speaker 1: and they're good, So be mindful because they could really
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Speaker 1: be taking a relative of yours and really be asking
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Speaker 1: for money. What about the cousin who needs bail money
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Speaker 1: an sap or they'll hit you up with hey auntie,
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Speaker 1: I lost my while and can you send me two
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars? But guess what your niece that's supposed to
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Speaker 1: be a phone or your nephew, they're sitting right next
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Speaker 1: to you, so that's not a hey auntie, can you
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Speaker 1: send me two hundred or that the cousin needs bail money?
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Speaker 1: You know they have something that you can go on
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Speaker 1: now to see if your cousin was really arrested. Or
16:07
Speaker 1: call your cousin's mother she may know that her child
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Speaker 1: was arrested. Or call another relative. They may know whether
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Speaker 1: was arrested or not. Oh yeah, you need bail money.
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Speaker 1: Where are you at where they hold it? Come down
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Speaker 1: and bail you by my say oh no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna come all the way down here to
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Speaker 1: do that. Just send the money, or my dude is
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Speaker 1: gonna pick it up. I'm gonna send my girl to
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Speaker 1: pick up. They go there because sometimes they have partners,
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Speaker 1: partners in crime. They don't have somebody that will do
16:43
Speaker 1: it with them, or they could really be your cousin
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Speaker 1: saying look, I know my cousin got some money. All
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Speaker 1: we gotta do is tell him or her that I'm
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Speaker 1: in jail because we were take growing up up and
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Speaker 1: tell him that you gonna come by and pick up
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Speaker 1: the money and I'll give you a X amount of money.
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Speaker 1: And here you go giving them the money because you
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Speaker 1: believe that your cousin is in jail and they need
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Speaker 1: to bail money out. But guess what, verify the story.
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Speaker 1: Don't be fooled by urgency, be wary of requests for
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Speaker 1: secret money transgress. There's nothing in the world that's that's
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Speaker 1: much of a secret where you can't tell family if
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Speaker 1: they are truly your family and you trust them in
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Speaker 1: that way. What's the big secret? You in jail? You
17:38
Speaker 1: in jail, you've been arrested. You really need to bail
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Speaker 1: money to get out. But whyt sho to be a secret?
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Speaker 1: Or I don't want my mother to know because it'll
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Speaker 1: hurt her. Well, guess what, you shouldn't have did what
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Speaker 1: you did to put yourself and then I get it.
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Speaker 1: Some people are arrested for things that they actually didn't do.
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Speaker 1: But people are stammers, So be careful and be mindful.
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Speaker 1: Already found before we wrap this up. I want you
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Speaker 1: to remember one thing. Scammer is a slick, but so
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Speaker 1: will you. The more you know, the harder it is
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Speaker 1: for them to run game on you. So stay sharp,
18:21
Speaker 1: stay alert, and don't let anybody rush you into anything
18:25
Speaker 1: that doesn't feel right. If you feel uncomfortable or you
18:29
Speaker 1: have to second guess something, then you know that it's
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Speaker 1: probably a scam. Call a relative or call somebody. Somebody
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Speaker 1: always knows something, and listen, there is no shame if
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Speaker 1: you've ever been scanned before. It happens to the best
18:47
Speaker 1: of us. What matters is what you do next. Share
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Speaker 1: your story like I'm sharing minds with you, help someone else,
18:56
Speaker 1: stay safe, and keep the conversation going. Talk about scams,
19:02
Speaker 1: talk about frauds. There's nothing wrong with that. Oh and
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Speaker 1: just to let you know, I got my money back,
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Speaker 1: So keep your receipts. Contact your bank and the local
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Speaker 1: authorities because they will investigate to make sure that you're
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Speaker 1: not trying to scam your bank, because some people do that.
19:24
Speaker 1: But what happens is if they find out that it
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Speaker 1: was a scam, they're gonna take that money right back
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Speaker 1: out of your account, or you're gonna probably have other problems.
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Speaker 1: So don't try to scam your bank. For one, it's federal.
19:37
Speaker 1: And if you feel as though you look good in
19:39
Speaker 1: that orange jump too, then go for it. This has
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Speaker 1: been basic Black after Dark with your girl Black Diamond,
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Speaker 1: where we meet you where you are and give you
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Speaker 1: what you need. Join us on April fourth, as I
19:52
Speaker 1: welcome my guest Pat Johnson along with her talented youth,
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Speaker 1: the Youth Writers from Youth Writers' Rock. You don't want
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Speaker 1: to miss it until next time. Stay safe, stay smart,
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Speaker 1: and whatever you do, don't get God. Good Night everybody,
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Speaker 1: and remember be safe and pass this information along. It's recorded.
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Speaker 1: You can let other people know, so this way scammers
20:23
Speaker 1: won't get to you. You won't be scammed. It's not
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Speaker 1: a good feeling, believe me, I know. Good Night,