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Kim Komando Today

Tech Refresh: X-rated email scam, FBI's secret spy phones, tech life hacks

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The FBI busted criminals using a secret app to communicate their nefarious deeds. The biggest surprise here is how they did it. X-rated emails are one of scammers' favorite ways to get your info. Plus, the team dives into tech productivity hacks to make life easier.

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0:16.3

Welcome to Tech Refresh with Kim Commando and friends from Commander.com with a K.

0:20.1

That's K-O-M-A-N-D-O. Gangs

0:22.5

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

0:28.1

fishing scam that involves X-rated email, of course. And we'd love it if you tap the subscribe

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0:39.6

Every single week, automatically, it works perfectly.

0:42.9

And we get started with the news.

0:44.3

And as always, it's Kim Commando.

0:46.7

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

0:50.5

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

0:55.5

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

0:59.9

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

1:07.3

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

1:11.4

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

1:16.5

They were so smart.

1:18.4

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

1:26.6

Now, there are things called hardened,

1:29.0

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

1:34.3

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

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