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Tech: How to Spot a Scam

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A new email scam is making the rounds -- we breakdown how it works, the signs of a scam, and how you can protect yourself with Fool.com's resident detective, Matthew Cochrane.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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Slack is a collaboration hub for work that makes sure the right people on your team are always in the loop

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0:10.1

Learn more at Slack.com. Hey folks, Friday Tech Show host Dylan Lewis here.

0:15.0

We're going to try something a little different with today's show.

0:18.0

I'm actually going to start things off with a story.

0:20.0

Last week I woke up, check my phone, and saw my old college g-mail had an email from a name I didn't recognize.

0:27.0

New message from Sheldon Figueroa. Subject, alert for...

0:31.0

I won't beat around the bush.

0:33.0

I do know Fis your password.

0:35.0

More importantly, I'm aware about your secret and I have proof of this.

0:39.0

You don't know me and no one employed me to investigate you.

0:42.0

It's just your misfortune that I found your

0:44.0

blunder. The truth is I actually set up a malware on the adult vids, parentheses adult porn,

0:49.2

and you visited this site to experience fun, parentheses, you know what I mean.

0:53.6

While you were watching videos,

0:55.1

your internet browser started functioning as a RDP,

0:58.1

parentheses, remote desktop that has a key logger,

1:01.0

which gave me accessibility to your screen and also web camera.

1:04.7

Immediately after that my software collected your complete contacts from your

1:08.3

F. B. as well as mailbox.

1:10.4

I then gave in much more time than I should of exploring into your life and created a two-screen video.

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