Holiday Shopping Scams, and Paying Off Law School Debt

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Scammers are cooking up new ways to swindle your money from you. Two of their tactics this year? Social media ads and hyper-targeted emails. To start this episode, Sean and Liz talk about scams shoppers might encounter this holiday season and how to avoid them. Then they answer a listener’s question about how to pay off $200,000 in student loans. They also touch on the likelihood of student loan forgiveness and recent changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Timestamps: This Week in Your Money segment: 0:00-8:34 Money Question segment: 8:35-25:23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Prime Video brings thrilling entertainment.
0:03.0	Watch heavyweight detective Breacher, season three included with Prime.
0:07.0	Exactly how much danger is this job putting me in.
0:10.0	Treat yourself to the lovably chaotic Bridget Jones mad about the boy available to buy.
0:15.0	Did you have sex? Did you have sex?
0:17.0	Did you have sex last night?
0:19.0	Yes! And it was amazing!
0:23.0	Whatever you're into, it's right here.
0:25.3	Prime Video.
0:27.1	Click or tap the banner to find out more.
0:34.0	Welcome to the NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast, where we answer your personal finance questions
0:38.0	and help you feel a little smarter about what you do with your money.
0:41.3	I'm Liz Weston.
0:42.3	And I'm Sean Piles.
0:43.4	To send the Nerds Your Money Questions, call or text us on the Nerd Hotline at 901-730-6373.
0:49.7	That's 901-730 N-N-E-R-D, or email us at podcast at nirbalt.com. And to get new episodes delivered to your
0:57.7	devices every Monday, be sure to subscribe. And if you like what you hear, leave us a review and
1:02.6	tell a friend. Sean and I are working on a special episode for the end of the year, all about
1:07.0	what our listeners accomplished with their money in 2021. We want to celebrate your wins.
1:12.8	So what did you accomplish? Did you buy a house? Did you pay off debt? Maybe you started an
1:17.6	emergency fund or you kicked up your retirement savings. We want to hear about it and help you celebrate.
1:22.7	And because we are audio focused folks, we want to literally hear about it. Leave us a voicemail on the nerd hotline
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