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The Clark Howard Podcast

10.30.23 Passwords And Your Financial Safety / The Truth About Timeshares

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Clark explains what can happen when you use the same password on multiple websites. Also today - Reportedly timeshares are making a comeback among younger travelers. Clark drivers the truth about timeshares Password Safety: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Timeshares: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: [The Washington Post] Worried about the 23andMe hack? Here’s what you can do. Car Insurance Archives - Clark Howard Homeowners Insurance Archives - Clark Howard Target Date Funds: Clark's Favorite Retirement Investment How To Sell, Cancel or Get Rid of Your Timeshare Timeshares - Clark.com TRICARE Young Adult Thank you for listening today, Clarkies! If you want to be part of our “Clarkie” segment, call 404-981-2071 to leave a comment or story. We may play it during a future episode! Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Community.Clark.com Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Sponsor Link: Raisin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.4

It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show, where I miss you is to

0:39.8

serve you with information that empowers you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

0:46.6

Alright, so here's something just about all of us do from time to time maybe all the time

0:53.6

we reuse the same password on multiple websites and if you're like most people doing that I've

1:03.4

got a great example of why that is a really bad idea. Also today I recently saw an article

1:12.3

that was just so excited that people in their 20s and 30s are buying time shares in huge numbers

1:22.5

and why that is such a great idea. No way that's a great idea but before I get to that I want to

1:31.4

remind you our Team Clark Consumer Action Center is available with free one-on-one advice

1:39.4

information and guidance five days a week to answer your consumer questions go to Clark.com slash

1:48.3

cac for the details on how to contact them. So this came up recently and I want to address it

1:58.9

the 23mm hack 23mm and ancestry.com they were such big deals as like the hottest Christmas gift

2:10.4

four or five six years ago I don't think it's as big a poll as it was then but it was really

2:19.2

simple you spent in a vial you sent it off and it told you stuff about yourself ancestry

2:27.0

mostly all about who you were related to 23mm who you were related to and also health concerns

2:34.5

health issues and if you're a long time listener you know this story so we were filming me

2:42.6

for a TV and my producer who was having to film me spitting into these vials and sending them off

2:49.4

and the whole point of our story was that what we think we are isn't what we are unfortunately

2:57.8

she had to watch me spit into these things and all that because it turned out I was exactly what

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