Oct 15, 2018
Elections are coming up but security is still a mess.
Craig talks with Jack Heath today about election security and online scams on WGIR.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 10/15/2018
Security And Online Scams
Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, good morning, everybody. This morning I was on with Jack Heath who's now covering most of New England states. It's, it's kind of cool, but I was on with him. We were talking about security and safety and what we need to do. There's a lot of scams going on. Many of them are aimed, frankly, at our more senior population, and they are doing just a ton of harm. So we talked a little bit about that. I was surprised at how much jack new and kiss I guess he's been briefed right, paying attention. Good, jack. So here we go this morning with Jackie and talking a little bit about security. What you can do right now with the scammers, especially the guys are coming in on your phones. I gave him an app that I use that I think is very useful. In fact, everybody that I've told about that's installed it has absolutely loved it. So here we go with Jack.
Unknown 0:53
right now. The Tech Talk update go on the author. Let's find Craig.
Peterson on his show Tech Talk. And of course, Craig Peterson, with
on on Peterson.com. Craig joins us now on the listener lines. Good
morning Craig.
Unknown 1:05
Hey, good morning Jack. What a busy week again, that like there's
news to talk about. Well, you know, I guess you heard Kate Martel
with the hill. Same it's kind of quiet
Unknown 1:15
except for the Trump President Trump interview with 60 minutes kind
of quiet. But anyway, Craig, what's going on?
Unknown 1:21
Well, we got a lot of things here on the tech side, that's for
sure. You mentioned elections coming up. There's a great article
that I put up on my website that came from CNET talking about how
election security is an absolute mess in some states frankly it's a
disaster we've got a pretty good setup here in New Hampshire we've
got some good checks and balances some auditing going on but
Illinois for instance is saying that they don't have any federal
funds Republic clean up their election system so I think we may be
looking at at least until
Unknown 1:58
we may be looking at some contested election over whether or not
something was hacked or people's votes were actually cast
properly
Unknown 2:08
alright tomorrow I want to mention to the to its credit union
weekend tomorrow we're gonna have a special focus on credit unions
and we're going to be also going to be moderating a lunch and and
conquered as they talk about things like scams and New Hampshire,
elderly financial abuse is really prevalent in terms of some of our
aging folks who are victimized too often with these financial
online scams. Craig you know, you can't, you know, it seems like
this is the one I love, you know, you get a number, it's a new
hampshire number. So, you think it's, you know, you're going to
answer yourself and it says something, you know, that they're
trying to call you to extend your warranty and your car or you
know, something about your, you know, here's a chance to do this
for more credit, or here's a chance to settle college debt or call
this number if you want to, you know, make money on that. I mean,
it's just unbelievable. The number of scams, they really are scams
out there.
Unknown 3:00
Oh, and there are a lot and they are hitting the elderly but
they're hitting everybody to i gotta tell everyone who's listening
about an app that you might want to check out for your smartphone I
was getting dozens of calls every day and what they're scammers are
doing is they're just randomly picking up phone numbers that are
similar to yours so it'll be like say your numbers six old 3566
something you'll get a call from 603566 something they'll be
impersonating one of these local phone numbers and they'll do
everything you were just talking about so have a look at this app
there's a free version of paid versions called Hiya, H-I-Y-A, Hiya,
H-I-Y-A and what that does jack is that has a whole database behind
it have about 300,000 known scam phone numbers she's it is done
what's the app for me it's called Hiya, H-I-Y-A. Hiya, H-I-Y-A. And
it's a phenomenal tool because it does block a lot of these scams
and as you said there everything and they sound so legitimate I
wanted to so well how do you spell that age what age I y and the
other ones India Yankee alpha okay the other one I will ask you
because we did get a listener to ask you about this there's an ad
that's on I think it's for Experian to find out until you've seen
the ad when you're watching the game some is your social security
number on the dark web you can go on to do you recommend that are
not well yeah there's a couple of things you can do but the here's
the bottom line jack in this day and age thanks experience a huge
gave the bad guys all of our social security numbers. So the odds
are in this day and age that your information has been compromised,
it is on the dark what should you do? It has been well there's
nothing you can do to get it down. You need to make sure you change
your password and we have to make an assumption jack I've got a
great article about this right now up there. You have to set up all
of your financial accounts like you're going to be half man that
you have been hacked. The That's the truth. I agree. And we're
gonna have more on this at this credit union event tomorrow and
conquer. But Craig The other thing is, many people know the bank or
the credit card carrier that they they have the thing that you're
the expert, not me. But don't fall to this one. If you get an email
and it looks like it's from your bank or credit card
Unknown 5:29
company don't assume it is because they can make these emails look
like it's from that and then they want you to verify some account
information and ask you a question. If you made discharge over the
weekend. That's a scam as well. If you're not sure call on the back
of the card or your back. Call them and ask if they are reaching
out to you. So you can't even trust an email these days. It seems
all right. No, thank you. We gotta run online. Jack. Don't click on
anything in an email. Don't open that you Craig. Great. Peterson
and we come back some businesses
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