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Life Kit

Simple ways to protect yourself from scams

Life Kit

NPR

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Scams can happen to anyone. Experts explain how to safeguard your data and money from being exploited or stolen by fraudsters. This episode originally published November 7, 2023.

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0:00.0

President Trump is back in Washington, pursuing major policy changes on his own terms.

0:06.4

We know from the past that means challenging precedent, busting norms, and pushing against the status quo.

0:12.1

NPR is covering it all with Trump's terms, a podcast where we curate stories about the 47th president with the focus on how he is upending the way Washington works.

0:21.5

Listen to Trump's terms from NPR.

0:24.0

You're listening to Life Kit.

0:26.3

From NPR.

0:29.7

Hey, everybody. It's Mariel.

0:32.3

Kelly Richmond Pope is a huge Bruno Mars fan.

0:35.6

She loves the song 24-carat magic, among many others.

0:39.1

So in 2017, when she realized he was coming to her city,

0:42.2

she got on Ticketmaster.

0:43.8

And the universe was smiling upon her that day

0:46.0

because she got these amazing front row seats for pretty cheap.

0:50.4

And I'm thinking, oh, yeah, I got a bargain.

0:52.9

So my cousin and I go to the Bruno Mars concert.

0:55.2

We're super excited.

0:56.4

We get in, go through the United Center door, and we get a big X over the ticket.

1:00.6

The ticket was fake.

1:02.2

And when I go back and I think what happened, the website that I got it off of,

1:07.3

it did look a little bit different than the traditional looking ticket master website.

1:12.8

And so what should have been the red flag was how do I have these amazing seats? It's almost like

1:18.2

if you got Taylor Swift or Beyonce tickets front row for a hundred bucks a piece. And that was how

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