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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSwindlers from halfway around the world can get their sights on local targets — and locally-based fraudsters can pick up on schemes that are being worked all over the country. Here are a couple of current examples: a con game from Somewhere Else that’s focused on people …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePhony messages coming in as emails or texts are getting harder to spot, because they no longer have funny language or bad spelling, thanks probably to Artificial Intelligence programs used by crooks. And there’s bad news for people who use “digital wallets” like Apple Pay or Google …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThere are a lot of scams coming from Russia today, especially on the internet. Regardless of who’s doing them or why, you need to be aware and on the alert for attempts to steal your personal information, break into your credit card accounts, or fool you into …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIndiana University Credit Union customers are being hit by telephone scammers — do you have an account there? Do you know someone who does? Telephone phonies and email scammers are running rampant these days. You need to understand what they’re trying to do — and we need …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreI’ve been getting a whole bunch of phony emails lately, and maybe you have too. They mostly present a fake invoice for some service, claiming I’ve subscribed to it and they’re going to take money out of my bank account — unless I call a phone number …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreNext Tuesday is election day. If you are mailing in a ballot, time is running out! If you plan to vote in person, make sure you know where to go. Find out where to go online at Indianavoters.in.org. Listen for more voting information.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 5.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePolice agencies around the country are reporting a gang of con artists who are working a fraud they call, quote, “far-reaching, complex, and well-organized.” Their most successful tactic to hook victims has been an email saying the sucker has won something – money, a trip, or something …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 5.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreI got an email saying people are needed to maintain fan Facebook pages – work from home and earn a hundred bucks an hour! So much for that. Then there’s a product being heavily advertised – like right up front on the Yahoo website – called OkoWatt. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 5.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDo you know who you are talking to? Someone who gets in couch with you over technology could be an imposter. This is a person pretending to be someone else to deceive others. Almost half of all American have been targeted by them, so watch out!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 9.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDer Bingle and Satchmo – that’s Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong, in case you’re culturally deprived – had a hit record about fishin’ back in nineteen fifty-one, but today the meaning of the term, and the spelling, have changed. Phishing, spelt with a “ph”, is a cybercrime …