Coming up on AARP the perfect scam. He cleaned out my credit card and my bank account completely and then took my car

It's kind of in the last decade or so that he really sort of fashioned himself into a full-on

outdoorsy you you know, fleece wearing, hiker type

to sort of give him credibility in this community

and help him give him an entree

to meet other people that eventually he would

betray. For AARP the perfect scam I'm Will Johnson I'm joined as always once

again by my co-host and the AARP's Fraud Watch Network

Ambassador Frank Abignell. Hey great to be here. Nice to have you here

again Frank and we have another scam story we will share in just a few

minutes but first I want to ask you about a topic

that I don't think we've talked about much the various technologies where we're able

to talk to our devices a lot of security concerns going on there yeah very

scary when you think about those type of devices, you have to ask yourself, how is it activated? How does it work? It works on voice.

So with a minor twitch from a hacker, I could listen to everything you say in your house and when you look about all of these

devices in your house your Samsung TV your remote control to the TV your refrigerator

that tells you when you're getting ready low on milk and even your security your

security cameras that you have around your house because you think when I go away like get on my

iPhone I can look at my house see what's going on around my property.

All those are access points for hackers.

And the reason is that people who develop these types of technologies

never go what I call through the follow-through final step and that is to ask the question

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