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But Ecclesiase says there's nothing new in the sun.

So thanks to being here to get the true story, the story of the day, the State Department, cracking down on foreign scammers.

I prepared this, these thoughts actually a couple days ago based off of a segment we did last week.

And right before I pressed the record button, I see this report, this headline on Drudge Report,

fraudsters fleecing Americans like never before.

Perfect.

Exactly what we're talking about here.

We talked about this last week on the Sirius XM radio show.

And we took an hour plus of phone calls of people who have gotten scammed and had these horrible stories of them or a family member,

a friend losing a lot of money in really sophisticated scams.

And a lot of them, when you look back on it,

you're like, oh, man, and people are kicking themselves.

Like, how did I not know?

I got scammed once.

And I felt so stupid. I had scammed out like a crypto account

and they called and it seemed legit and they had me download this other app, which it was actually

a legit app, but then they had me do a thing which then connected their Bitcoin to my, my Bitcoin

to their Bitcoin and they took it. And I felt so stupid.

But they got me like right in the middle of something.

I was like in the middle of a project.

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