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How does online scamming work?

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Bridget and Ryan get swept up in a cyberpunk adventure as they try to answer Cooper’s question about how online data thefts can lead to real world consequences for your bank account. With the help of longtime friend of the program, Scam Slammer Host Brenda Hammer, the duo travel inside the internet to follow the trail of our digital bread crumbs, and see how advertisers and fraudsters get to know more about us than we might think.

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0:00.0

Hey, bazillionaires. Welcome back to the final episode of the season.

0:04.8

This episode of Million Bazillion is presented in partnership with Greenlight, the debit card and money app for kids.

0:12.1

Today, Bridget and Ryan tackle an important topic that everyone should be thinking about to help keep ourselves and our money safe.

0:26.0

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0:32.4

greenlight.com slash million.

0:37.3

Hey, Bridget, what's that video game you're playing?

0:40.9

Oh, this?

0:41.8

It's a virtual reality cyberpunk game.

0:44.3

Virtual reality cyberpunk, you say?

0:47.2

Oh, yeah.

0:47.6

It's my favorite science fiction subgenre, all about futuristic technologies and hypothetical dystopias.

0:54.0

Uh, can you say that one more time in English?

0:57.6

Uh, it's about bad things happening with computers.

0:59.8

And what's that helmet you're wearing on your head?

1:02.0

That's the virtual reality part. I'm playing this game, not as myself, but as a grizzle detective who has to solve a crime in a digital metropolis.

1:08.5

So I custom built these goggles and a helmet to make the game experience more real.

1:12.8

Wow. Where did you learn to do that?

1:14.5

I took a night class in computer engineering at the community college.

1:17.4

The only problem is when I'm wearing my virtual reality helmet, I can't see what's going on around me.

1:21.7

Where's my water bottle?

1:22.9

Bridget, look out!

1:24.7

Go!

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