Nov 25, 2019
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Good morning, everybody. Thanksgiving week. of course, you know. Man, I went to the grocery store over the weekend and I have never seen a quite that busy before. Well, I think I have actually, I think about it. It was Thanksgiving last year. Everybody's out shopping everybody saying, "Hey, I shop all the time on the weekend and there's never this busy." So some of us are lying. Right? At least that's what I said to myself. Then I realized, you know what, yeah, I kind of shop all week long give or take. Anyhow, I was on this morning with Jack Heath and we were talking about some of the scams out there. Do you know about typosquatting? Well, that's what we talked about this morning. Here we go with Mr. Jack Heath.
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Craig Peterson
Good morning, everybody. Thanksgiving week. of course, you know.
Man, I went to the grocery store over the weekend and I have never
seen a quite that busy before. Well, I think I have actually, I
think about it. It was Thanksgiving last year. Everybody's out
shopping everybody saying, "Hey, I shop all the time on the weekend
and there's never this busy." So some of us are lying. Right? At
least that's what I said to myself. Then I realized, you know what,
yeah, I kind of shop all week long give or take. Anyhow, I was on
this morning with Jack Heath and we were talking about some of
the scams out there. Do you know about typosquatting? Well,
that's what we talked about this morning. Here we go with Mr. Jack
Heath.
Jack Heath
Craig Peterson with a tech talk update. And hopefully speaking of
technology, Craig, people on Thursday, just in some commentary will
put down these handheld devices that actually communicate with
others in person if they're around family and And turn this thing
off all day. Unless you're listening to I Heart Radio the app. Good
morning, Craig.
Craig Peterson
Or they could be wondering why would they do that they're going to
be shopping. There is a whole lot of stores now that are going to
be selling this week, some at some of the lowest prices of the
year. So it's not just Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but we're
going to be seen and we already are now quite a few different
vendors online that you're going to have to be kind of careful of
by the way while you're shopping this week, and I learned something
new this year to the best deals for airline flights out of the year
are expected this not tomorrow, but a week from tomorrow, the
Tuesday after Cyber Monday. So if you're planning on flying,
particularly after the first of the year, you will see the lowest
prices ever come a week from tomorrow. Also the Tuesday after Cyber
Monday. But we have a new statistic out right now that was
conducted by a company looking at all of these online websites that
we shop at. And they found that there are four times more fake
retailer sites than real ones out there. What this means is, these
fake sites are pretending they are the real big-box retailer. And
when you go there, bottom line, you could be in trouble they use
them for fishing, etc. And they're using something jack called
typos squatting, they found 50,000 websites out there, that if you
mistype the name of the retailer, you are going to end up on a site
that is frankly trying to steal your information. Check Honey,
Jack Heath
You know what that looks and feels like the one and then you go to
order by you know, go to the cart and how do you know it's not it's
a bogus site.
Craig Peterson
Well, the best thing to do is to be very careful while you're
typing. But the real retailers will have not only a secure site
HTTPs. And you can tell that by going up into your menu bar, there
usually be a little lock over on the left-hand side that says
something like your site information. And it will say the
connection is secure. But you want to double-check the certificate
and I know who wants to become a computer security expert, right?
But look at that certificate, all you have to do is click on it,
it'll tell you who issued it, and who it is who is really out
there. So a legitimate merchant is going to have a website with a
secure certificate, and it is going to be signed by a major
significant company. Bottom line jack, where we got to fix this
system because it's far too complicated to make sure it is who you
really think it is. There is work underway right now to replace
what's called the DNS system that we've had for quite a number of
years that solves another problem, but created this problem.
Jack Heath
Well, the other thing is, you don't know what you're getting
sometimes. In other words, the other thing I've noticed, Craig,
which is not exactly what you're describing, but similar, is, you
know, how they micro-target us. So like, Oh, just hypothetically,
if you're a watch person, and you look at watches, like men's
watches, well, that when you go to your news sites on is you'll
have all these offerings on the right, or if you're looking for a
new winter coat, all of a sudden, you're bombarded with different
coats that different companies, so sometimes they'll put a nice
looking coat that was a little bit like what you were looking at,
and they'll say, you know, today only 40 45% off and you go to that
site. And I don't know why I'm not gonna say the name, but it might
be you know, might be some kind of like, a tactical advantage is
the name of the business. So then you go to tactical advantage and
the company, there's nothing about it. There's just a marketing
term, there's nothing there but they have the coats the site how to
order. And it might just be a marketing kind of thing where you
will get a coat in the mail but you have no information about the
business. It's not like LL Bean, for example where we've heard of
it. You can go online, you get a catalog, you go online, you know,
it's LL Bean. It's like some name, like, you know, great adventure
and outdoor wear. And it's got a lot of neat, well, good pictures,
good prices on outdoor wear. But the check you never heard of the
company go to, like, look at it, and it's not there.
Craig Peterson
Yeah, you have to that. It is a really good way to do it. You have
to do a little bit of research here. And when we're talking about
bait and switch right now, one of the biggest debates in the tech
world has to do with you're going to a new location, you're
visiting family, you need a place to stay. Many of us have been
using sites like Airbnb and there's a number of them out there and
there has been a lot of bait and switching going on. So be
very careful that too, what they'll often do is you book a, you
know, a house or maybe even just a room on one of these sites. It
looks great. It sounds great values pretty good. You know, it's not
like the best in the world, which is, by the way, a big giveaway if
it's too good to be true, right? And you end up getting them a
message from them the day before or they're about saying, Oh, no,
the toilet broke, a water line broke, etc, etc. So I'm going to
have to move you to this other house, but it's just as nice and you
show up and the place is just horrific.
Jack Heath
That's what happened to Justin, Justin was looking for a place on
Long Island for Thanksgiving. That's what happened to him. They
just told them that the place he was gonna go to was flooded. So
the place that you're gonna like it, it's basically a houseboat. He
doesn't know what he's getting into.
Craig Peterson
Wow, be careful
Jack Heath
Even though they've already had Thanksgiving in your native Canada
you have a great Thanksgiving. All right, thanks jack. Take care
guys. Craig Peterson with some tech talk. His show airs Saturday
afternoons and of course great tech information and tips.
Especially if you are an online buyer like when you go to get
something like I don't know, an iPad or something?
Justin McIssac
Oh hell yeah.
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