05.11.21 Beware Facebook messenger scams / A Clark Howard true confession, supply, demand & gas prices.

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

There’s an ongoing series of Facebook messenger scams. Facebook identities are taken over by crooks who use familiarity to commit affinity fraud. What you should out for. / Clark backs out of a long gas line in California & pays the price. What should you know about summer driving? Clark explains ‘backwardation’ in terms of where gas prices are, why, and where they’re headed. Ask Clark topics include: Homeowners Insurance / Hearing Aids / Apple Credit Card Review / Best Cash Back Credit Cards \\ Want more money advice? Sign up for Clark’s free daily newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.1	It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show, our mission to serve and empower
0:41.8	you so you make better financial decisions in your life.
0:45.7	In today's episode, Facebook, Messenger, Scams are eating up people's wallets.
0:51.6	I'm going to tell you how to avoid them.
0:54.5	So I've got a personal confession to make to you about saving money or not in my case.
1:04.2	We have a staffer named Deborah who does some work for us on the podcast and some other
1:10.5	media that I do, particularly radio, that I do.
1:15.5	She is a mega talent voice and she's a singer and she received a Facebook message recently
1:27.3	from someone who she had not seen or talked to much in the last many decades.
1:35.0	But you know how Facebook will be that people will end up being your virtual friends on
1:41.0	Facebook who were connected in your life long, long ago.
1:44.2	And it's like, oh, that's so cool to see what's going on with someone.
1:47.2	So, and you accept a friend request, whatever.
1:50.3	So she gets a Facebook Messenger message from this woman who knew that Deborah was a singer
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