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all here, Kim, Ali, Ben. I'm Mike. Today, the scam of the week, well, what you need to know about a new

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And as always, it's Kim Commando.

Well, the big news is out this week about the drug dealers and the app that trick them.

But it wasn't really an anonymous chat app that works on a standard smartphone.

Like all the news outlets are saying it is, I did some research. I went down to that

Ali Seligman, rabbit hole. Welcome. Happy to have you. It's like, oh no, I'm down for somebody

get me out of this. Well, I'm going to get to all that in a sec. So here's the deal.

You may have heard FBI agents here in the U.S., similar crime fighting organizations around the world.

They were so smart.

They duped all these suspected criminals by tapping into their super secret conversations and how they did it was interesting.

Now, there are things called hardened,

encrypted devices. Have you ever heard of this? No. Not that term, no. No. No. Hardin,

encrypted devices. Now, I didn't know about it either, but I went down that rabbit hole. So

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