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This week, Scam Squad has a bank fraud expert explain the latest big wave of bank scams. Fraudsters are calling bank customers and pretending to be from the bank and asking customers for all of their banking information in order to drain their accounts. Learn how to protect yourself from this type of scam.
This week Scam Squad discusses the results of the three major A.I. software tools as to their resistance to creating scamware and scams to defraud us.
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Most recently, there has been a surge in fake and phony government emails and postal mail, containing invoices for all kinds of fake scams saying the recipient owes the government money. The invoices look very real nowdays, so be sure to listen to this weeks Scam Squad. Also, there has been a lot of A.I. fake search engines fooling people into calling fake numbers of agencies and companies and being scammed. Lots of good stuff in this week's Scam Squad so be sure to listen and subscribe for more alerts.
This week's guest is the Fraud Expert from Montecito Bank to update you on all the latest bank scams as well as holicay theft tricks. Listen and stay updated and informed.
This week Scam Squad talks about more Christmas scams as well as the Phantom tech scams that are sure to happen this Holiday Season., how to spot them and how to avoid them. Also, we have some success stories of scammers getting arrested and prosecuted.
THIS WEEK ON SCAM SQUAD, WE REVIEW THE YEARLY D.O.J. ANUAL STATISTICS ON SCAMS AFFECTING SENIORS AND THE ELDRLY AS WELL AS THE LATEST METHODS AND TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THESE TYPES OF SCAMS AS WELL AS HOW TO RECOVER MONEY ONE MAY HAVE LOST DUE TO DOMESTIC SCAMS.
Today Scam Squad talks about the world of Banking Fraud, specifically as it relates to tech support scams. There are several types of tech support scams that can easily go after your money, so be sure to listen to this informative podcast.
This week Scam Squad explores Polictical Solicitation Scams and other related scams such a Charity Scams and Crowd Funding
This week, Scam Squad explores three major scams affecting our County right now. One is a new type of Solar Pannell Scam. The second is a Real Estate Scam using Facebook and a wire transfer that defrauds a couple out of $98,000.00 , preventing them from ever retiring and most likely dying in poverty. The final scam is an impersonation scam where the scammer pretends to be the famous actor Bfad Pitt and amazingly able to defraud the victim out of $850,000.00 their entire life's savings and condemning the victim to die alone in poverty.
This week Scam Squad reviews the new twists in old scams such as the Warrant Scam where you get a phone call or message saying that you owe money for a ticket or a fine. Also Scam Squad warns us about phony calls saying it's time to renew your cable, internet, wi-fi, or phone, or other contract and that you contract is about to expire and you will be fined a huge amount of money if you allow it to expire. The last scam is a bank account scam where they try to get you to withdraw cash and wait at home for a courier to come and pickup. These scams are happing now all over the USA.
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This week Scam Squad explores the new area of ACH Scams. This is a very clever and sophisticated imposter scam, often involving hundreds of thousands of dollars and even several millions of dollars. It is most often used in business transfers involving funds from bank accounts at the bank.
This week Patti and Kristina talk about A.I. scams that have been plaguing the Nation. An A.I. scam is where an imposter steals the voice print and/or image of an individual and then pretends to be them. Because they can make audio and video sound and look very much like the person from whom they stole the voice print and image from and then starts to impersonate them in a variety of illegal ways and situations, mostly to scam or defraud other individuals out of money. Learn ways to help spot A.I. phone calls and videos.
TRAVEL SCAMS - This week, Scam Squad host Patti Teel and Chief D.A. Investigator Kristina Perkins, discuss the latest travel scams, in particular airline ticket booking scams. Investigator Perkins also discusses other scams that are currently attacking Santa Barbara County and the Nation. Be sure to listen to this episode if you are planning to travel or fly soon.
This week, our guest is Montecito Bank, who recently detected a romance scam being perpetrated on one of it's bank customers. Learn about romances scams, as well as about other types of impersonationist scams, by listening to Scam Squad each week.
An all new Scam Fighting organization for senior citizens, Silver Shield, has been formed in San Luis Obispo County, CA. The local police and several other community groups have put together to create a strong anit-scam community outreach and community available for seniors who think they've been scammed as well as those who are interest in the prevention of potetial scams that might affect them. For more information about this group or how to create or contact one, be sure to listen to this particular podcast.
Today we look at the Courier Scams that had been surging in Santa Barbara County, the State, and the Nation. Courier Scams are when a Grandparents Scam, Kidnapping Scam, Extortion Scam, or similar scams where the crooks have remotely pressured the victims into agreeing to hand over large amounts of money in the form of cash, gift cards, gold coins, etc to a courier that shows up at the victims location, receives the money, packages it, and sends it off by mail, ups, fed-x or other means.
This week, host Patti Teel and Greg from the District Attorney's Office, tells us about the huge consequences of Identity Theft and then guides us step by step as to how to very simply and easily, totally guard yourself from Identity Theft.
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Deputy District Attorney Kirstina Perkins and Senior Fraud Specialist Shawn Dyer from Montecito Bank and Trust, explain how to protect yourselves from being scammed by two of the worst Bank Imposter Scams, the first being the Bank Imposter Scam and the second as the Pay Pal Imposter Scam. These are very highly sophisticated scams that most victims easily fall for. Listen to Shawn Dyer and Deputy District Attroney Kristina Perkins explain in detail how to spot and protect yourselves from these scams.
An all new scam that Dept D.A. Christina Perkins has recently discovered is what she terms as THE SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS SCAM. Within the “COMENTS” portion of the You Tube videos, there will be comments with a link saying here is a video of what's happening, but it will just direct you fo a Phishing Scam to defraud you. So avoid being suckered into the Socila Mecia Comments Scams. Christina also covers a rising problem of Investment Scams that are adopting the use of payments by Cripto Currency. As most of us know, the most dangerous threats to losing your money is by not knowing about the consequences of Cripto Currency.
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Shawn Dyer, Fraud Specialist at Montecito Bank & Trust discusses phishing, followed by an important discussion about Check Fraud, which is on the rise. Learn how to spot and stop check fraud by diligently monitoring your account. And if you are a victim of check fraud, learn how altered checks and counterfeit checks are handled differently by banks.
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