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In today's show, I'm talking scams. First, a warning for you if you buy or sell goods on Facebook Marketplace, and later AI is

enabling crooks to clone voices.

And this is a big problem that's happening

at companies, that's happening to family members. You gotta know what's going on and how you should validate

before you act on something you hear from who you think is a loved one, friend, relative, or the boss.

So as we talk about scams in today's podcast, I want to tell you you can grow cynical and you can start to lose

faith and the morality and ethics of our fellow human beings. But just remember most people are honest and decent and they're doing

the right thing. And I want to give an example of it before I talk about the

Facebook thing. I was a witness to a domestic dispute between a

couple along with other people and what was really interesting was on a

public street and the witnesses did not just keep on walking the witnesses did what

they could to protect the woman in this couple and one woman trying to defend her got punched in the face broke her glasses

What? Yeah

You didn't tell us this story? I'm sharing it right now. I know but I mean terrible but people

stayed and people were there and we kind of cornered them against a wall none of us with weapons,

until the police came.

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