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The Big Fib

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Education, Comedy, Leisure, Games

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How does online scamming work? On this episode of Million Bazillion, Bridget and Ryan get swept up in a cyberpunk adventure as they try to answer Cooper’s question about how online data theft can lead to real-world consequences for your bank. account. With the help of a longtime friend of the program, Scam Slammer, Host Brenda Hammer, the duo travels inside the internet to follow the trail of our digital breadcrumbs and see how advertisers and fraudsters get to know more about us than we might think. Explore more from Million Bazillion at marketplace.org/millionbazillion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there, Deborah here. We've partnered with our friends over at the podcast Million
0:04.8	Bizzillion to share an episode of theirs we think you'll really enjoy. It's called How
0:10.0	Does Online Scamming Work? And as a host of a game show where kids choose between the
0:15.4	driving safely on the information superhighway of truth or getting stuck in the interweb of online spammed lies.
0:22.5	Well, I thought it was a good fit. I love this podcast and I hope you do too. And if you want
0:27.8	to hear more from Million Bazillion, you can find them everywhere you listen to podcasts. Don't worry,
0:33.5	your regularly scheduled episode of the Big Fib will drop in a couple of days.
0:37.8	But in the meantime, I really hope you enjoy this bonus episode coming up next.
0:45.6	Hey, Bridget, what's that video game you're playing?
0:49.0	Oh, this? It's a virtual reality cyberpunk game.
0:52.4	Virtual reality, cyberpunk, you say?
0:55.3	Oh, yeah.
0:55.7	It's my favorite science fiction subgenre, all about futuristic technologies and hypothetical dystopias.
1:02.2	Uh, can you say that one more time in English?
1:05.7	Uh, it's about bad things happening with computers.
1:07.9	And what's that helmet you're wearing on your head?
1:10.1	That's the virtual reality part.
1:11.6	I'm playing this game not as myself, but as a grizzled detective who has to solve a crime in a digital metropolis. So I custom built these goggles and a helmet to make the game experience more real. Wow. Where did you learn to do that? I took a night class in computer engineering at the community college. The only problem is when I'm wearing my virtual reality helmet, I can't see what's going on around me.
1:10.9	Where's my water bottle?
1:12.1	Bridget, look out. and computer engineering at the community college. The only problem is when I'm wearing my virtual reality helmet, I can't see what's going on
1:29.0	around me.
1:29.8	Where's my water bottle?
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