I'm so glad you're here with us on the Clark Howard Show where you're empowered with

knowledge so you can keep more of what you make our main website, Clark.com.

Coming up in just a few minutes, you'll have to shop online.

You gotta know a lot of the things being sold right now online are fakes.

Anytime you're looking at designer stuff online, be prepared, be wary.

And coming up here later, speaking of shopping online, I recently had an order declined

and it was because I didn't have a high what's known as trust score.

Did you know I wasn't trustworthy?

I'm going to fill you in on what that is, what that means to you, what you've got to know

about the constant war against fraudsters in online sales.

So I've been very impressed by something lately that I know a lot of people would say,

why is that impressive?

But I've been impressed by people who send a handwritten thank you note or send a traditional

card.

Is that's a lost art?

We are so electronic oriented now.

We're so into sending electronic invitations, electronic thank you notes, electronic greeting

cards, electronic birthday cards.

And doing all the things we do with texting and social media posts when there's a special

event in somebody's life that it's gotten to where it's so unusual to receive something

personal.

And at Aldi the other day in the center aisle, if you're not familiar with Aldi, in addition

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