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Speaker 2: On learner type Amazon dot com. I kick it my
Speaker 2: way to about two million, five hundred thousand books subvix
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Speaker 3: I can look up such as Mediterranean cookies and I
Speaker 3: find fifty seven books on the subject. Amazon dot Com
Speaker 3: gives such great discounts that even with a shipping you
Speaker 3: come out ahead.
Speaker 2: I like not standing in line, stay of standing in line.
Speaker 2: I just sit here at punch one button and my
Speaker 2: book's on the way.
Speaker 4: I found a whole range of books from fiction to
Speaker 4: nonfiction on Tit, Temporary America, on Olympics, and Losday. I
Speaker 4: absolutely great time.
Speaker 5: KFI AM six forty is Later with mo Kelly. Remember
Speaker 5: when Amazon used to sell books a long time ago.
Speaker 2: Now they sell everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I got an email once from Jeff Bezos back back
Speaker 4: in the day. Really yeah, and I have a letter
Speaker 4: on a little Christmas chotchki that he sent me. I found,
Speaker 4: like you know, you have boxes in the house. I
Speaker 4: found this box and it was wasn't really marked say
Speaker 4: Amazon on the outside. I opened it up and it
Speaker 4: was a pre printed letter from Jeff to some of
Speaker 4: the early people involved and say, Jeff Bezos, we appreciate you.
Speaker 4: B bah bah kfi.
Speaker 5: A six forties later with Mo Kelly, course that's Marsha Colliers,
Speaker 5: we talk about all things tech. That was a vintage
Speaker 5: Amazon commercial and it reminded me and of course reminded
Speaker 5: you what Amazon used to be and how what they
Speaker 5: used to be put bookstores as we know it pretty
Speaker 5: much out of business, and now they're putting a lot
Speaker 5: of other brick and mortar well.
Speaker 4: In line with what we're talking about today. I have
Speaker 4: a friend, the techie guy leron sergev and he's on YouTube.
Speaker 4: He does a lot of videos and he's done a
Speaker 4: lot of testing, and we were talking about how do
Speaker 4: they get your data? How do they get your information?
Speaker 4: Did you know he installed Amazon on a brand new phone,
Speaker 4: never logged in, never even logged into his Google account,
Speaker 4: so it was just a blank phone. And he did
Speaker 4: this with iPhone as well. And guess what it was
Speaker 4: calling in regularly.
Speaker 5: So even though he didn't log in, even though he
Speaker 5: did not use it to make any type of purchase,
Speaker 5: it was stealing data from the phone and communicating.
Speaker 4: Well, it was communicating I guess in hopes of there
Speaker 4: being more data because they were DNS hits, which we
Speaker 4: don't want to get into. Technically, TikTok was actually at
Speaker 4: TikTok was the second worst, but really not as nasty.
Speaker 2: What does that say for those phones which have Amazon
Speaker 2: is what we call bloat wear because depending on your carrier,
Speaker 2: that's for install there.
Speaker 4: That's why it's there. Jesse, you know, I know we
Speaker 4: all think the microphone listens to us. Do you realize
Speaker 4: if that was to transfer that amount of data it
Speaker 4: would be in a day. It would probably be a
Speaker 4: billion petro bike. It just it's not happening. What it
Speaker 4: picks up is what you type, what you search for,
Speaker 4: what apps you have, what you look at. That's that's it.
Speaker 5: I've had a number of people over the years say, hey, mo,
Speaker 5: what do you recommend as far as trying to scrub
Speaker 5: yourself from the Internet. Some people say the Internet is forever.
Speaker 5: I would like to get rid of, you know, some
Speaker 5: of these sites having my personal data.
Speaker 2: Is there anything that we can do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll give you one free thing and one thing
Speaker 4: you have to pay for. Okay, okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 4: So you know that Google will remove search results about you.
Speaker 4: You know, like if you Google your name you see
Speaker 4: something that's untoward. It's not a matter of censoring. If
Speaker 4: your private information appears in a Google search, that's against
Speaker 4: their policy and they will remove it. Obviously they don't know.
Speaker 4: And how do you do that? There are a couple
Speaker 4: of ways you can do it. Let's say you see
Speaker 4: it and you choose you see your name, click the
Speaker 4: three dots next to any web result you'll see it
Speaker 4: next to web results or always three dots, and pick
Speaker 4: remove result from the panel on the right. Then choose
Speaker 4: the reason for your removal request. One option is it
Speaker 4: shows my personal info and I don't want it there.
Speaker 4: You want to click that. You can also pick I
Speaker 4: have a legal removal request.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: That could be if somebody has stolen like put paragraphs
Speaker 4: in my book on there or something like that, they
Speaker 4: would take it out. Now, that won't take it down
Speaker 4: from the internet, mind you, It will take it out
Speaker 4: of Google search. The search results. You can request or
Speaker 4: refresh and you're done and that's it. It's gone. But
Speaker 4: what I do for Google is I have removal requests
Speaker 4: in and that's if you have a Google account, you
Speaker 4: don't have to have Google one. It gives you those
Speaker 4: two options we spoke of before, and then a little more. Uh,
Speaker 4: you can go and start removal requests from Google. You
Speaker 4: just go to Google's support page for removing results, and
Speaker 4: you can google that Google removing results, and there's a
Speaker 4: place where they will continually track for your name. Now,
Speaker 4: my name shows up in my podcast title, right, because
Speaker 4: I'm all about branding. I stand my name everywhere.
Speaker 2: Right, that's personal but also public information. Right.
Speaker 4: So when it comes up with those you know, like
Speaker 4: in Zambia where they listen to the pot believe it
Speaker 4: or not, I leave it. But otherwise it shows up
Speaker 4: in a few other places. And that's unfortunately where Google
Speaker 4: stops because it doesn't go deep Google. This is removing
Speaker 4: from Google search results.
Speaker 2: That says to me.
Speaker 5: It will help somewhat, but the Internet is still forever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's true. So what I do. I think
Speaker 4: I've mentioned to you before. I use something called delete me, which,
Speaker 4: by the way, if anyone wants to use delete me,
Speaker 4: I have a twenty percent coupon. Just messaged me on
Speaker 4: Facebook or I'll give it to you. It's not a Now,
Speaker 4: I don't make any money. You get twenty percent off,
Speaker 4: but it's one of those weird I'm not going to
Speaker 4: give it to you over the radio. So what they
Speaker 4: search are data brokers, people like people search spoko. Are
Speaker 4: you familiar with any of these?
Speaker 5: I am very familiar with spokio, and it amazes me
Speaker 5: how much information it can derive on people.
Speaker 4: One hundred and forty they deal. They scan one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty five data brokers. If you subscribe to their
Speaker 4: it's about one hundred and twenty year, about ten dollars
Speaker 4: a month, but they go deep in every month. They
Speaker 4: review listings one hundred and sixty two, four hundred and
Speaker 4: sixty one last month. Then they go for data brokers
Speaker 4: with info about you when they pick up, and you
Speaker 4: have to give them a certain amount of data first name,
Speaker 4: last name, your spouse's name, anything that's connected to you,
Speaker 4: your addresses, because you know a lot of those are
Speaker 4: real estate sites where they have people's names and owners
Speaker 4: and this and that, and they'll show you stuff in
Speaker 4: the beginning, like ex husband's name. Boy, I had a
Speaker 4: lot to fill in there, but I was getting on
Speaker 4: all his relatives page and all that stuff, and it
Speaker 4: would then link to my private information.
Speaker 2: That's unnerving.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, so ten dollars a month. These people scrub it.
Speaker 4: They send you like a twenty page report every quarter,
Speaker 4: so it works. It's called delete me, and their website
Speaker 4: is joineddelete me dot com.
Speaker 5: Those are two good options, obviously one free. One might
Speaker 5: cost you a little something, but it.
Speaker 2: Will help.
Speaker 5: Diminish that footprint out there of personal information.
Speaker 4: And I do both.
Speaker 5: So when we come back, let's talk about the top
Speaker 5: ten scams of twenty twenty four. And hopefully nobody listening
Speaker 5: has been caught up in any of them, but there's
Speaker 5: a good chance you might have.
Speaker 4: Absolutely you're listening too.
Speaker 1: Later with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, the new computers are here, new computers. Who
Speaker 3: may I ask? Authorized new computers?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Who did?
Speaker 4: Who did?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 4: IBM? Of course I did.
Speaker 3: The new IBM Personal System too, the next generation of
Speaker 3: personal computing. New computers, new printers and software, and IBM's
Speaker 3: new graphics put two hundred and fifty six colors on
Speaker 3: a screen at once, so our work will be bolder
Speaker 3: and brighter.
Speaker 4: If it'll make him brighter, count me in.
Speaker 3: Personal System too is faster, Oh, and it has incredible power.
Speaker 4: Someone say power, it's a miracle. He's following instructions. Hey,
Speaker 4: we were made for each other, so they need to
Speaker 4: use even.
Speaker 3: You could use it.
Speaker 4: Can we tie it all together?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Personal System two has excellent connectivity, so we can talk
Speaker 2: to each other.
Speaker 4: Well if we have to.
Speaker 3: It's just what we need.
Speaker 4: Who is responsible for this?
Speaker 5: Why you may recognize some of those voices, it's the
Speaker 5: whole cast of.
Speaker 2: Mash all right.
Speaker 4: I was wondering who it was.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep, if I am six forty is later with
Speaker 5: mo Kelly Marshall, Collier joins us, you're also going to
Speaker 5: give us some information on some of the top scams
Speaker 5: of the past year. And I shudder to think whether
Speaker 5: I might have been caught up in one or some.
Speaker 4: Well, the FTC announces the top scams of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: What number are we going to start with?
Speaker 4: I want to start with number five?
Speaker 2: All right, number five? Hold on one second. Here we go.
Speaker 4: Internet services, things that people can do to help you
Speaker 4: with your internet, to speed up your internet and just
Speaker 4: do things for you.
Speaker 5: Oh, because your computer's a little slow, right, got it?
Speaker 4: It needs it needs, you know, a little tech support,
Speaker 4: and they'll be more than happy to give you tech
Speaker 4: support and look at your screen and move your mouse
Speaker 4: for you and just fix.
Speaker 5: Everything for a nominal price, and also access to everything
Speaker 5: on your right exactly.
Speaker 4: And that's if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, the best
Speaker 4: case scenario, they just put a bug in it and
Speaker 4: it keeps sending information regularly to the people or some
Speaker 4: other malware exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: So you know.
Speaker 4: That's and what's interesting is younger people have lost more
Speaker 4: money more often. It's younger people who are falling for
Speaker 4: these Yeah, we're cynical, yea, we heard yes, yeah, sure
Speaker 4: from Microsoft.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Let me just call one of my friends. Let me
Speaker 2: call my kid.
Speaker 4: He could do it right, exactly, Okay. Number four investments.
Speaker 4: The biggest losses happened by bank transfer or payment, followed
Speaker 4: by cryptocurrency. They have these lovely link young ladies with
Speaker 4: beautiful social media photos who engage in DMS with gentlemen
Speaker 4: who may be lonely, who they may have talked. Targeted
Speaker 4: because they can get their data online and see that
Speaker 4: their wives just died or something like that.
Speaker 2: My wife is still living and I still get the DX.
Speaker 5: I'm being serious because you'll see it's some sort of
Speaker 5: AI or they stolen the photos of some model and
Speaker 5: they want to talk to you about crypto and investments,
Speaker 5: and it's say, hey, you can wait, make a whole
Speaker 5: lot of money and you know, just invest here.
Speaker 4: We see that's a bad one. They've dove right in.
Speaker 4: What they're supposed to say is you know, you're really
Speaker 4: a handsome man. I'd love to get to know you better.
Speaker 4: And then they engage you in a conversation and they
Speaker 4: build trust and friendship with you. And you asked, well,
Speaker 4: what do you do for a living? Oh? I invest?
Speaker 4: Uh huh, I do it quite successfully. And then you
Speaker 4: say how do you do that? And they say, glad
Speaker 4: you asked. That's just right cryptocurrency. I've been very successful
Speaker 4: in trading my.
Speaker 2: Crypto, even with the southern drawl.
Speaker 4: But okay, so they do this and what I Obviously
Speaker 4: you're not a lonely guy, because these people like dove
Speaker 4: into the crypto right away. But the really deep scams
Speaker 4: where people lose half a million, three hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: and more are lonely older people and dumb young people.
Speaker 2: What you know, So the.
Speaker 5: Crypto will get the older people, and I'll say, the
Speaker 5: speed up my computer scans, get the younger people.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, yep, yep. And number three job openings, business
Speaker 4: and job openings. How many texts do you get?
Speaker 5: Hey, fake job listings right, so they can get your resume,
Speaker 5: all your information.
Speaker 4: Right, and you get texts. I get text about it
Speaker 4: all the time, and I wonder, I don't want a job,
Speaker 4: who are you and how do you have my information?
Speaker 4: But of course I never ask any of that. I
Speaker 4: just report it as spam and block and block, and
Speaker 4: you can do that in your messages by those magic
Speaker 4: three dots on Android, and you can also do it
Speaker 4: on iPhone. But the job or opportunity scam, which is
Speaker 4: why you ever wonder why these people on LinkedIn have
Speaker 4: on their profile picture open for work. I mean, hello,
Speaker 4: welcome to fraud.
Speaker 5: Well, see the thing is I actually to be transparent.
Speaker 5: I have that on my profile, but I don't have
Speaker 5: my phone number on my profile, so if anyone reaches
Speaker 5: out to me on my phone, they don't and it
Speaker 5: doesn't show up in my contacts that I know right there,
Speaker 5: it is a scam.
Speaker 4: Well that's good, but you know, I hate to say it,
Speaker 4: but not everybody is as careful as you. You know.
Speaker 2: I just don't like people. I don't trust people. That's
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 4: Well, that's why we're here at at dark radio station
Speaker 4: talking to each other. Yeah, the job opportunity thing is bad. Now.
Speaker 4: Second is one that we all know online shopping and reviews.
Speaker 2: Oh, please explain that for folks who don't know well.
Speaker 4: First of all, one of the reasons why Amazon put
Speaker 4: verified purchase on some of the reviews was to verify
Speaker 4: that actually the person bought things there. When you see reviews,
Speaker 4: a lot of times they will be flowery and descriptive
Speaker 4: and wonderful and not written by a customer. They'll be
Speaker 4: written by the company. Talking about all of that, my
Speaker 4: new book Android Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies. It's on Amazon.
Speaker 4: It's doing very well and people seem to really like it.
Speaker 4: And it's in color with bigger So anyway, I saw
Speaker 4: the reviews and I saw one came in from the
Speaker 4: UK and it didn't say verified customer. But I don't
Speaker 4: think they do that from other countries. And I called
Speaker 4: my cousin in England, I said, did you leave a
Speaker 4: review of my book? No, so's somebody in the UK.
Speaker 4: I like that, And some guy from Australia too. But
Speaker 4: the point is, if you're listening, thank you. The point
Speaker 4: is the reviews negative and positive are very difficult. You
Speaker 4: have to really judge a product. You need to know
Speaker 4: about the product. Like I know when I shop on Amazon,
Speaker 4: I have to be careful of fabric. I don't know.
Speaker 4: You and I have spoken. We don't like artificial fabrics.
Speaker 4: I always read the fact.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always a crapshoot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the clothing feels so silky on my body. We
Speaker 4: could go into that deeper, but probably not the time
Speaker 4: for it. But anyway, the fabric is just difficult, so
Speaker 4: you have to read the manufacturer's description and read the questions.
Speaker 4: The questions are on Amazon, for example, are really where
Speaker 4: you'll get the four one one For those who don't
Speaker 4: know what the four.
Speaker 2: One one is, that's reference now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, back in the old days, if you dialed four
Speaker 4: to one one on your phone, dial, oh, you tap right,
Speaker 4: don't know what?
Speaker 2: They don't know what like a rotary phone is?
Speaker 4: Oh that break your nails? Every time I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: I had the same problem.
Speaker 4: Did you look good in that? Anyway? The number one
Speaker 4: bad scam on the internet is impostors and they're there,
Speaker 4: They're out there, mo Kelly. There have been some impostors.
Speaker 4: I've let you know when people have hijack not hijacked
Speaker 4: your account, but copied your Yeah. I can think of
Speaker 4: five people in this country whose email address is not
Speaker 4: what they think it is. They probably don't have an
Speaker 4: email address, and every time they write down, well I
Speaker 4: need your email address, they put down my email address
Speaker 4: because we have the same name, and they're from five
Speaker 4: different And that is the least of it, because I
Speaker 4: end up with all the junk mail from all these places.
Speaker 2: You too, huh.
Speaker 5: I can't count how many times I've ended up on
Speaker 5: some obviously insurance list or something where obviously they're just
Speaker 5: putting down my email address.
Speaker 4: Right right now. To me, that's as far as an impostor.
Speaker 4: That's the most biggest violation of anything. And people who
Speaker 4: will shop or sign up for things with your name, Yes,
Speaker 4: it's terrible. Investment scams lead to the biggest losses. People
Speaker 4: reported losing money more often when contacted through social media,
Speaker 4: So be careful who you talk to and engage in
Speaker 4: a direct message.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't have to be careful talking to you,
Speaker 5: Marcia Collier. I can verify. You are you, and you
Speaker 5: are my friend and you are our tech expert. Don't
Speaker 5: you don't like me saying that, but you are like that.
Speaker 5: That could be a promo.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that, Stephan, She's going in the promo,
Speaker 2: Marcia Collier. I love seeing you. Thanks Mo, thank you
Speaker 2: for all you do.
Speaker 4: You too.
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