Scams can happen to anyone — here's how to protect yourself

Life Kit

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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New, sophisticated scams are popping up all the time. Experts explain how to safeguard your data and money from being exploited or stolen by fraudsters. This episode originally published on November 11, 2023.

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0:00.0	Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.
0:07.0	If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.
0:12.0	I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely
0:15.0	American I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from
0:20.2	Boise State Public Radio, part of the NPR Network.
0:24.0	You're listening to Life Kit.
0:26.7	From NPR.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, it's Mary L.
0:32.3	Kelly Richmond Pope is a huge Bruno Mars fan.
0:35.0	She loves the song 24 carrot magic, among many others.
0:39.0	So in 2017, when she realized he was coming to her city,
0:42.0	she got on ticket master, and the universe was smiling upon her that
0:45.7	day because she got these amazing front row seats for pretty cheap and I'm
0:50.8	thinking oh yeah I got a bargain so my cousin and I go to the Bruno Mars
0:54.8	concert, we're super excited, we get in, go through the United Center door and we get a
0:58.8	big X over the ticket. The ticket was fake. And when I go back and I think what happened,
1:05.0	the website that I got it off of,
1:07.0	it did look a little bit different
1:09.0	than the traditional looking ticket master website.
1:12.0	And so what should have been the red flag. traditional looking ticket master website.
1:12.8	And so what should have been the red flag
1:15.4	was how do I have these amazing seats.
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