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🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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TikTok isn't the only Chinese app to worry about. A shopping app, downloaded by millions of Americans, uses sneaky tactics to monitor users. We spoke with Titan Crawford, founder of the Facebook group PDX Stolen Cars, which has helped recover over 3,000 stolen cars in Portland.
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kim Commando today, your daily podcast to keep you up to date with all things digital |
0:07.0 | and beyond. And I'd love to have you be a part of our podcast. You can make an appointment to speak |
0:12.4 | with me. Just head over to commando.com. And on the top right, there's a button that says email, Kim, |
0:17.0 | fill that out. And that's it. So right now now about 850,000 people are clicking on a banana on the |
0:26.5 | internet okay yes 850,000 yes why okay well it's an interesting thing there's a game on steam |
0:36.4 | and the whole idea is that you click the banana. |
0:40.0 | And then every so often, you get a banana skin. Okay. And then you collect the banana skins, and then you can sell the banana skins for three cents. |
0:51.5 | And so, like, for example, the player will get one cent. |
0:55.2 | The developer gets one cent. |
0:56.7 | And then Steam, the platform, gets one cent. |
1:00.1 | And so you have from, from whoever has this banana thing going on. |
1:07.1 | Okay? |
1:07.7 | I mean, so you get these banana skins and then you go sell them, somebody will go |
1:12.1 | buy them. That's the answer to your question. Yes, yes. And so people are betting that these |
1:17.9 | banana skins are going to just go up, up, up in value. And so like you have some banana skins |
1:23.0 | that are selling for like a few hundred dollars. You have a banana skin that's selling for like a thousand hundred dollars you have a banana skin that's selling for like |
1:29.0 | a thousand dollars but here's what's going on it's a classic pump and dump scam okay so so if |
1:37.4 | you're sitting there thinking yourself kim i'm going to go on the internet and make some money today |
1:41.6 | by clicking on a banana and then I'm going to sell |
1:44.6 | the banana skin that I get. |
1:47.6 | It's just not going to happen. |
1:49.7 | Even if it's early, even early on? |
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