11.08.22 Charities: Season of Giving Guidelines / Privacy For Sale

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of year - charity solicitations. But there are fake charities vying for our hard earned dollars and targeting our senior loved ones. Clark has some important guidelines for legitimate charitable giving. Also. we live in an era of surveillance. Our life online can be tracked and sold for profit, but WE don’t get paid. Yet, that option isn’t new and has resurfaced. Worth it? Clark explores privacy and consumer choice. Legit Charitable Giving: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Online Tracking & Privacy Choice: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: NYTimes: 76 Fake Charities Shared a Mailbox. The I.R.S. Kept Approving More. How To Choose the Best Charities for Your Donations Is There a Safe Way To Invest in Real Estate? WSJ.com: Startups Offer to Pay Consumers for Permission to Track Them Online What Is a C.L.U.E Report and Its Impact on Your Insurance Why I Think Medicare Advantage Plans Stink - Clark Howard Health Insurance Guide - Pitfalls of Medicare Advantage Plans - Investopedia What Is a Secured Credit Card and How Does It Work? Petal Card Review: A Good Option for First Credit Card? Best Secured Credit Cards: Top Picks for Building or Repairing Credit Finance Guide for Formerly Incarcerated People - MoneyGeek Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where I'm
0:08.3	is just to serve you and empower you.
0:11.0	Do you make better financial decisions in your life?
0:14.5	Well, it's officially that time of year where you're going to see one charitable
0:20.4	solicitation after another after another in your email, some by text, people at
0:26.5	street corners in the traditional mail.
0:30.6	And how do you know who's legit?
0:34.1	Who's on the up and up?
0:35.6	Who should be getting your money?
0:38.0	And if you got older relatives, older parents, let me tell you, they got a bullseye target
0:44.6	on them, the scammers, the crooked charities, they're going to come after them hard.
0:51.8	You got a role to play here.
0:54.6	So we talk a lot about privacy being tracked and all that with everything we do.
1:00.9	What if this was flipped on its head and you got paid for people to be able to spy on
1:08.0	you and see what you're up to when you talk about that.
1:12.6	So my mom, who's been deceased for a while, went through a long decline from dementia and
1:24.1	she baselineed back in year 2000 with early decline and it was clear what her path was
1:32.5	going to be.
1:33.5	And we were really lucky as kids because usually as people develop more dementia over time,
1:40.8	they can get kind of grouchy and maybe not be the parent you remembered.
1:46.4	We were really lucky as a small percent of people are that our mom had what they call
1:53.1	euphoria.
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