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I can't trust anybody.

That [laughs] I hate to say that, but we just have to become so cynical and untrusting now because it seems like every second day I come in here, there's some scam story to talk about.

Actually, yesterday there was a scam story to talk about, and I didn't talk about it 'cause I was too busy talking about Bill Carroll joining us after having left, you know, years ago, which is how I ended up being here.

But it's Bill Carroll from 9:00 to 10:00, um, on this radio station starting Monday.

But what I wanted to talk about is this latest scam that I had read about, and it is that the scammers produce a sticker that makes it look like when you go up to the gas pump and you tap your card for gas, that you're, you're authorizing $250 for gas, but you're actually sending $250 to some scammer and not getting any gas.

And my whole trip that I took just recently, about 5,000 kilometers, over 3,000 miles on my motorcycle, everywhere I went across Canada and then back through the United States, that's how almost every time I got gas I wasn't even putting the credit card in the machine anymore, just tapping on that thing, and it's very convenient, uh, et cetera.

Now, would I notice if somebody had carefully put a sticker over top of that thing? Oh, I always hope so.

Um, but maybe not.

I mean, you pull up, you're thinking about other things, you're buying gas.

So I could have been victimized by that.

It turns out I wasn't, b- and I'm glad I haven't been, but they're getting very clever, the scammers.

Well, they've been clever for a long, long time.

And in this case, uh, it must be working or we wouldn't have heard stories about it.

I don't know, maybe it only works once.

Because if you tapped and the 250 disappeared, and then why, why am I not getting gas? You're gonna walk in at some point or push the button and say, "Why isn't this thing working?" "Well, you haven't used your credit card." "Yes, I have." Well, somebody's gonna come out eventually and go, "Uh-oh.

[laughs] There's a, there's a sticker on here." But hey, if they can get 250 bucks each time they do it, I guess it's gonna be worth it to them, driving around to gas stations putting that sticker on there.

But, in fact, I just finished this morning some stuff the company makes us do where we do l- little online training sessions about not clicking on this or clicking on that and causing problems for the company.

Because it's relentless, isn't it? Text messages that I receive along the lines of, "Hey, we haven't been in touch." I'm looking at it going, "Yeah, that's 'cause you're a scammer, so I don't wanna talk to you." And I just ignore it.

And if it happens to be somebody I know, either their name is gonna come up or eventually they're gonna call me or something and say, "Why aren't you responding?" Oh.

Now, one cool thing is I don't respond to some of the emails that I get that are purporting to be from the company.

I just ignore it, and then somebody comes to me and says, "Why aren't you responding to, you know, HR or management or whatever?" "Oh, I thought it was a scam.

[laughs] So I didn't... [laughs] I don't have to deal with all that stuff." You're laughing, Mark.

That's, I'm telling you, that's a technique for not having to d- to do stuff.

The only problem is on the-- They actually give you points for reporting the f- the emails, so if you don't report them and ignore them, you only get, like, partial credit.

Oh, oh, I see.

I-- So they, they'll say, "Okay, fine, but you should've reported it if you thought it was a scam."

Yeah, exactly.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.