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The Clark Howard Podcast

6.25.19 Consumer Reports car buying service; Social security imposter scams; Debit cards on campus

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Clark discusses the Consumer Reports car buying service and whether or not you should check it out; Watch out for social security imposter scams; Debit cards are a major risk for college students. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you learning ways

0:09.8

to save more and spend less.

0:13.0

Don't let anyone ever rip you off.

0:16.2

Speaking of rip offs coming up in a few minutes in today's Clark Registra moment, I want

0:21.1

to give you a heads up on the hottest scam going on in the United States costing people

0:27.9

big money and potentially their identity as well.

0:33.0

And wow, there's a rip off theme coming up yet later.

0:38.6

There's a rip off on college campuses that have gone somewhat quiet that has now roared

0:44.7

back its dirty business from the banks paying kickbacks to colleges, cheating their own

0:51.6

students.

0:52.6

I'm going to fill you on on what they're up to to harm people so the colleges and the

0:58.5

banks can line their fat pockets.

1:01.7

I want to talk right now about something Consumer Reports is doing.

1:08.5

Consumer Reports is doing more and more to be relevant in people's lives where there

1:18.0

are people who feel like, oh, that's Grand Dad's publication or that's my aunt's publication.

1:25.9

That's so old school that Consumer Reports thing.

1:29.6

And so they in this new digital era are looking more and more for ways to keep Consumer Reports

1:39.3

relevant and make it compelling for people who are particularly in their 20s and 30s.

1:47.9

And I am a long time believer in Consumer Reports.

1:52.4

I love that they are unbought and unbossed.

1:56.4

If you're not familiar, they never take any advertising.

2:00.8

It is essentially a co-op where everything is paid for by the members to get unbiased

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