Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to the host of Rich on
Speaker 1: Tech on KFI. It's KTLA's tech guy, Rich Timuro. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: can you click on anything anymore?
Speaker 2: No, you really can't.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have examples for you, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: see what you think about them.
Speaker 3: Okay. One, sure, I got an email. It's a Disney
Speaker 3: dream Key settlement.
Speaker 1: And it's an email and it says, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: there's where you know you're going to get a refund.
Speaker 1: There was a suit, which there has been and I
Speaker 1: did get like sixty dollars back because I am a pass.
Speaker 3: Holder, right, Oh wow, lucky you right, so well.
Speaker 1: Sixty bucks and plus anyway, I don't want to get
Speaker 1: into what that settlement probably did to pass holders, but
Speaker 1: that's a whole other issue.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Then it says claim payment and there's a click through,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1: So I did a little digging and if you go
Speaker 1: to dream Key Settle element, there is a dream Key settlement,
Speaker 1: but on the web it says if you want to
Speaker 1: get your settlement, don't do anything.
Speaker 2: So yes, well yeah, well at this point you are
Speaker 2: you've gotten the settlement. You've gotten the sixty dollars that's
Speaker 2: paying you out, and usually they want you to either
Speaker 2: get that payment to like a Venmo or a PayPal,
Speaker 2: or you can claim a check. So what I do?
Speaker 2: Number One, there's a website I like Topclassactions dot com.
Speaker 2: So anytime you see one of these class action lawsuits,
Speaker 2: you can type in the search bar and I just
Speaker 2: typed in the Disney dream key and yes, there's a
Speaker 2: nine point five million dollar class action settlement. The claims
Speaker 2: period is closed, and it looks like people are getting
Speaker 2: their money, which is sixty seven dollars and forty one
Speaker 2: cents estimated. So and I got that month SAT and
Speaker 2: the official website is dreamkeysettlement dot com. So you well,
Speaker 2: that's the thing. So if you already got the money,
Speaker 2: then you're good. But this is it sounds like they're
Speaker 2: trying to pay you out at this point.
Speaker 1: Well, see, I think that I think this is a
Speaker 1: scam because I also it's his claim payment. But if
Speaker 1: you go to the website, it says don't you don't
Speaker 1: have to do anything, So I'm thinking that this might
Speaker 1: So you're saying, yeah, that it might be a bogus
Speaker 1: click through.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, It says payments to qualified class members were
Speaker 2: sent by checks and digital payments were emailed via epic
Speaker 2: pay on June fourteenth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I just got this email.
Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, so like can you but it's like scary
Speaker 1: because it and it totally looks legitimate. So whether this
Speaker 1: one was or not, I didn't click through because you
Speaker 1: just don't know, like I get stuff from my bank
Speaker 1: or it looks like it's from my bank, but it's not.
Speaker 2: And this is what I talk about on the radio show.
Speaker 2: I say that, you know, all these scam artists basically
Speaker 2: mimic what we know to be true, and they put
Speaker 2: a little nefarious twist on it. Right, So we've gotten
Speaker 2: the text from your bank that says, hey, did you
Speaker 2: just try to use your card at Target? You know,
Speaker 2: press one, reply one or reply two for no, you know,
Speaker 2: for fraud, And they'll do that same thing, but yet
Speaker 2: somehow they'll twist it to say, oh, go to this
Speaker 2: website to lock your card or something, and it's totally bogus.
Speaker 2: So my advice in general is to just take a
Speaker 2: critical eye. Typically you should be able to tell if
Speaker 2: these things are a scammer or not by inspecting the
Speaker 2: return email address, the website that it's sending you to,
Speaker 2: and if you see that it's cross referencing something that's
Speaker 2: actually legitimate, like it actually takes you to that dream
Speaker 2: key settlement website, then it's probably good. But yes, I've
Speaker 2: gotten a couple of these in the past, and I'm
Speaker 2: always very critical. But if you're just putting in like
Speaker 2: your Venmo or something or your email address to get
Speaker 2: the payment, it's usually safe unless it's asking you to
Speaker 2: log in, Okay.
Speaker 1: I just it's so frustrating, and it's like they're just
Speaker 1: it's getting worse. I got one from the DMV saying
Speaker 1: you have a traffic violation. I'm like, no, I don't,
Speaker 1: and it says you know, yeah, you know, and it
Speaker 1: says click through here and if you don't, we're going
Speaker 1: to refer you to a toll collection agency. Your vehicle
Speaker 1: registration is going to be suspended. And then you're like, hmmm,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you know. So I post a lot of
Speaker 2: these on my Instagram and people send them to me
Speaker 2: all day long, so I try to post like the newest,
Speaker 2: most interesting ones that I see, because if they're doing
Speaker 2: something unique, different, or you know, something I haven't seen before.
Speaker 2: I'll usually sort of break it down on my Instagram,
Speaker 2: So that's a good place. I know you're following me there,
Speaker 2: but that's a good place to check as well.
Speaker 3: It's tricky.
Speaker 1: Well I saw I just saw one of your Instagram
Speaker 1: posts about Apple pushing out a promo to iPhones.
Speaker 3: Well what's that one about? Yeah?
Speaker 2: People were, well, it was funny. I got this yesterday
Speaker 2: and I thought that was kind of odd. I'm like, this,
Speaker 2: this is not very much like Apple.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: They've got this new movie they're promoting f one a
Speaker 2: stars Brad Pitt. It's a big movie. I think it
Speaker 2: comes out this weekend. And they sent a notification saying, hey,
Speaker 2: you can get ten dollars off two tickets if you
Speaker 2: buy them via fandango. And I was like, that's weird.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a promotion pushed to my phone like
Speaker 2: this from Apple. Okay, and sure enough go online and
Speaker 2: a lot of users are not happy because you know,
Speaker 2: this is Apple wall. It is what you use to
Speaker 2: pay for stuff, and now Apple is using it to
Speaker 2: to push promotions to people. So long story short, people
Speaker 2: are upset about this. Not that big of a deal,
Speaker 2: but it looks like In the new iOS twenty six,
Speaker 2: there will be a toggle to turn off future promotional
Speaker 2: texts like this from Apple through the Apple Wallet. So
Speaker 2: we'll have to wait until September to be able to
Speaker 2: turn those off.
Speaker 3: I will be one of the first to turn those off.
Speaker 3: I hate all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Windows ten has a lifeline, so Microsoft's gonna continue doing
Speaker 1: security updates for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This is actually a pretty good deal because a
Speaker 2: lot of people don't want to switch to Windows eleven.
Speaker 2: They don't really have a need or their computer doesn't
Speaker 2: really work with Windows eleven, so they got to stick
Speaker 2: with Windows ten, which is going to go out of service.
Speaker 2: Like Microsoft's going to stop giving you software updates and
Speaker 2: security updates on October thirteenth, twenty twenty five, So sorry
Speaker 2: October fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Now you can get this
Speaker 2: extension for one year through October thirteenth in three ways.
Speaker 2: They're calling it the Extended Security Updates Program. So number one,
Speaker 2: pay thirty dollars. That's been a thing for a while,
Speaker 2: So you can pay thirty dollars to get one more
Speaker 2: year of security updates. Or here's the two new options.
Speaker 2: If you use Windows back up to sink your settings
Speaker 2: to the cloud. You can get one year of service updates,
Speaker 2: security updates for free.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: Or this is the interesting one. You can redeem one
Speaker 2: thousand Microsoft Rewards points. I didn't even know I had
Speaker 2: these amy until I went to bing dot com and
Speaker 2: I saw that I have like twenty eight hundred reward
Speaker 2: Rewards points. How do you get use those? How do
Speaker 2: you get searching Bing? It's like a game of fied experience.
Speaker 1: No, not find them? How do you get Microsoft Reward points?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all by searching Bing. So it's like basically
Speaker 2: it's a it's a gamified search experience. So ok and
Speaker 2: my kids know very well. If you have kids, they
Speaker 2: might know about it because they can earn like free
Speaker 2: Xbox stuff. So it's like you can do all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff like every it gives you these little goals
Speaker 2: to do, like if you search bing three times a day,
Speaker 2: you'll get points, if you re your Outlook emails. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's kind of silly.
Speaker 1: Okay, Amazon Prime Days, I just got the notification that
Speaker 1: those are coming up in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Yes, July eighth through eleventh. This is their biggest Prime
Speaker 2: day yet, four days instead of two. No matter what
Speaker 2: they say, I give you the same advice every single year.
Speaker 2: Day you're in, you're out, put the stuff that you
Speaker 2: want in your cart now and watch for the price drops.
Speaker 2: They will mark anything with a major price drop with
Speaker 2: a little red banner that'll say Prime Day or Prime
Speaker 2: Deal or Big Deal, and that's the best way to
Speaker 2: shop because things will go on sale. And actually even
Speaker 2: though it starts July eighth and goes through the eleventh,
Speaker 2: they still put stuff on sale through the eleventh. Like
Speaker 2: right now, things start going on sale. So just put
Speaker 2: the stuff in your cart, check it out, and watch
Speaker 2: for those price drops.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then one last question about Prime Days because
Speaker 1: I have trouble finding great deals. Don't they do like
Speaker 1: deals of the Hour or something like that or deals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing a new thing this year which is
Speaker 2: called Today's Big Deals, and these are daily themed drops
Speaker 2: from various brands like Samsung, Levi's, Dyson, and Keels and
Speaker 2: so those will be like every day. But if you
Speaker 2: want to check out some of the Prime Day deals,
Speaker 2: Amazon dot com slash Prime Day and already I'm seeing
Speaker 2: deals related to stuff that I've purchased in the past
Speaker 2: or things that I've browsed for, so the deals are
Speaker 2: already a plenty. It's just you know, yeah, like do
Speaker 2: you need it? But yes, there are some good things
Speaker 2: on here.
Speaker 3: Okay, so go load up your cart and then watch
Speaker 3: for the sales. Yep, all right.
Speaker 1: Kfi's tech guy Rich Demiro. You can hear them live
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Speaker 1: And for the stuff we were just talking about and
Speaker 1: kind of everything that Rich talks about, and he puts
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Speaker 2: Thank you Rich, Thank you Amy,