Staying One Step Ahead of Scammers: Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones

We have a hot one today.

John and I are breaking down every scam you need to know about for your kids, your parents, your grandparents, and honestly, for yourself.

And before you tune out thinking, oh, I know about this.

I'm not going to fall for that.

That is exactly what the 200,000 seniors who lost an average of $38,000 each, not one, each, Last year, they said that too.

This stuff is not honestly what it used to be.

We're not talking about a Nigerian prince emailing you anymore.

We miss those days.

It was easier back then.

We are now talking about AI cloning your voice from a TikTok video, Instagram video, anything, and they can call your grandmother, your parents, a loved one, pretending to be you in a crisis, which is terrifying because it's literally your voice saying that there's an emergency.

We are talking about kids being targeted through Roblox, Oh, hey, Roblox, Snapchat through all those apps that they're playing on.

And it's very dangerous.

And I wanted to bring someone in for this conversation who keeps me in check when it comes to all this tech stuff, because I tend to lead with my gut.

And this topic actually requires facts.

So, John.

OK, you're going to scare us today.

But I think it's important to scare us because even our kids, we have conversations with them constantly, constantly.

They don't necessarily listen the first time.

Sometimes you've got to keep repeating things.

But anyway, give us a real download.

John, start us off.

What is like maybe the number one that you think is like brutal right now?

Oh, well, we're just dealing with one for you where someone just created an account of you on Facebook and we're uploading your videos every day and pretending to be you.

Now they weren't engaging with people, but it's impersonating someone.

And I think that's one is on the social media side.