Tag Archives: phone scams

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHere are the top five most prevalent and dangerous scams being reported today — how to recognize them and how to protect yourself. These days, you really need to keep aware of what’s going around, so you — or your friends or family members — don’t get …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA round-up of some of the latest, and not so good, ways that scammers are trying to get the best of you.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThree current scams are flourishing while everyone is distracted by current events. Here’s a heads-up on what’s going around right now, and some good reasons to stay home and stay safe.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThere is a lot of fraud going around that relates to the Election — but it’s not fraudulent voting, it’s scammers trying to keep you from voting! Or steal your identity…or your money. Watch out for them, starting right now.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHere is a list of basic Do’s and Don’ts that everyone needs to remember to stay safe in our modern world. Let’s start with some things NOT to do…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePhone scammers who threaten you are now insisting you don’t hang up until you send the money; people have been getting mysterious packets of seeds in the mail, and phone apps from Presidential campaigns have big differences. Three things to watch out for!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 5.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreStalkerware is a program – a very sophisticated and perfectly legal program – that you can install on your cellphone. Or…and this is the point…somebody else can install on your cellphone. It’s a program that lets another person know who you’re talking to, see your text messages, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 5.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreJust because scammers are thinking up new ways to swindle you, with Coronavirus hooks, doesn’t mean they’ve stopped doing their good-old – I mean, bad-old Standbys. Duke Energy is warning of Disconnection Scams again – that’s where you get a phone call or email from somebody claiming …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:58 — 5.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreStaying home all the time can be very stressful, and lots of people feel frustrated, lonely, and afraid. But remember that a hundred years ago, people coped with a much worse pandemic, and in those days they didn’t have the internet – in fact, they didn’t even …

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!