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The Clark Howard Podcast

3.19.19 Your digital life after death; Virtual kidnapping scams; The current state of tax fraud

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What happens to your digital life after you pass away? Clark has advice to help you make it easier on your loved ones; Virtual kidnapping scams are targeting high-income earners in elite zip codes; The IRS is doing a better job cracking down on tax fraud. But it can make it more difficult for taxpayers to prove their identity in order to receive their own refund.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In just a few minutes, there is a scam that is growing quite quickly around the country

1:03.2

that I'm going to share with you how to protect yourself from it, how easy the scam has

1:08.8

become to make sound believable to people.

1:12.6

I'm going to tell you the tell-tale signs.

1:16.4

Coming up later, there are some problems this year with you getting tax refunds.

1:23.3

It's for a good reason to try to keep criminals out of the system, but I'm going to tell

1:27.6

you how it can complicate your life.

1:31.4

So, talking about complicating life, what happens when you pass away?

1:36.1

I was reminded of this, this past weekend, I got an alert from Google.

1:42.4

And Google was really the first company to think through what happens with your identity,

1:50.4

your information, and all that at the time you pass away.

1:55.1

So Google developed something called inactive account manager.

2:00.0

And I asked in our pre-show staff meeting when all of us are together from TV and radio

2:06.0

and the web and our off-air and all that, nobody, not one person, said that they had set

2:14.2

up an active account manager with Google.

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