4.2 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:34.9 | Reality radio for a really great future. We talking real money tis the season tis the season |
0:43.4 | you know they're all it's it's a it's scammer m a ding dong time all the time but uh it's particularly |
0:50.3 | prevalent during the holidays when people go well, well, you know, these dumb Americans, |
0:57.4 | they're willing to buy almost anything and they're buying things too. So let's get them |
1:03.5 | to part with their money. So today we want to talk a little bit about avoiding getting ripped |
1:07.9 | off because that's a way to lose a lot of money. And I do mean a lot |
1:13.7 | of money. Americans lose, I don't know, how much to scams? In 2023, according to one source, |
1:20.0 | $10 billion with a B dollars. That's U.S. dollars. To me, that seems low. Yeah, I think because |
1:26.8 | here's the thing about that number. |
1:28.1 | That's the reported amount. |
1:29.8 | Remember, a lot of people get scammed and never report it. I'm embarrassed. I don't want to tell anybody. Oh, sure. Yeah. So that happens they're good. And that's what instigated this topic is I've been reading it. There's a column, or a seven-part series by Michelle Singletary in the |
1:46.9 | Washington Post about scams. It's a, it's called scammed. That's the name of the seven-part |
1:54.4 | series. Scammed. Shocking? And it all started out with a woman in Maryland who was contacted by a guy named |
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