12.7.20 Watch out for this Amazon Prime scam; Student loan payment freeze extended

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Scammers are targeting Amazon Prime members specifically in a new scam that scare you into handing over sensitive personal information. There's a little more clarity for people who have federal student loans. Payments will now be delayed through January 2021. 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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0:00.0	Today on Good Different News, reality TV star admits it's nothing like reality, and more
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0:17.2	Join us next time for more good news, hopefully.
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0:23.4	And for a prize to UK Private Retail Purchases from participating Suzuki dealer terms and exclusions
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0:56.5	inside quicker oats.
0:59.5	Music
1:06.5	It's my pleasure to join with you today on the Clark Howard Show
1:09.5	where it's about you learning ways to keep more of what you have.
1:14.5	And this time of year, we have so many scamsters
1:19.5	that use the activity of the Christmas season
1:24.5	to try to get in your wallet.
1:27.5	And I don't know if you saw the reports in the last couple of days,
1:31.5	but Amazon had a really, really, really good Black Friday week
1:38.5	than Cyber Week that they ended up selling about 20% of online sales
1:47.5	in that time period.
1:49.5	And so Amazon is really, really strong right now
1:53.5	and that means that you can tell their market strength
1:57.5	that they are front and center with a hot scam right now
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