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Steve Wiseman

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Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

Identity theft is high tech, low tech, and no tech. It isn't just coming through your computer. It is going through your trash. This is anything they can do to get the information, they will do.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

Identity theft is high tech, low tech, and no tech. It isn't just coming through your computer. It is going through your trash. This is anything they can do to get the information, they will do.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

Identity theft is high tech, low tech, and no tech. It isn't just coming through your computer. It is going through your trash. This is anything they can do to get the information, they will do.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

I'm a I'm a lawyer and also a college professor at Bentley University, where I teach white collar crime. Actually, before I taught at Bentley University, I taught at a number of other colleges with ever setting foot on the campuses. I used to teach in their prison education programs in the Massachusetts state prisons. And it was there I met a number of scam artists and con men and criminals.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

I'm a I'm a lawyer and also a college professor at Bentley University, where I teach white collar crime. Actually, before I taught at Bentley University, I taught at a number of other colleges with ever setting foot on the campuses. I used to teach in their prison education programs in the Massachusetts state prisons. And it was there I met a number of scam artists and con men and criminals.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

I'm a I'm a lawyer and also a college professor at Bentley University, where I teach white collar crime. Actually, before I taught at Bentley University, I taught at a number of other colleges with ever setting foot on the campuses. I used to teach in their prison education programs in the Massachusetts state prisons. And it was there I met a number of scam artists and con men and criminals.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

Always found it fascinating. And then, unfortunately, had a personal experience about 20 years ago where I was a victim of identity theft. And this was, I think, really around the time that identity theft was taking off as a crime. It is now the biggest consumer crime. So I just find it very, very interesting and timely.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

Always found it fascinating. And then, unfortunately, had a personal experience about 20 years ago where I was a victim of identity theft. And this was, I think, really around the time that identity theft was taking off as a crime. It is now the biggest consumer crime. So I just find it very, very interesting and timely.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

Always found it fascinating. And then, unfortunately, had a personal experience about 20 years ago where I was a victim of identity theft. And this was, I think, really around the time that identity theft was taking off as a crime. It is now the biggest consumer crime. So I just find it very, very interesting and timely.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

Well, you know, there's two things about that. First of all, no one is too smart to be scammed. All you have to do is look at Bernie Madoff and the many intelligent people that wound up being victims of his scam. And he actually was kind of of that mind that If you're too smart, you wouldn't be scammed. He actually blamed his victims at one point.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

Well, you know, there's two things about that. First of all, no one is too smart to be scammed. All you have to do is look at Bernie Madoff and the many intelligent people that wound up being victims of his scam. And he actually was kind of of that mind that If you're too smart, you wouldn't be scammed. He actually blamed his victims at one point.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

Well, you know, there's two things about that. First of all, no one is too smart to be scammed. All you have to do is look at Bernie Madoff and the many intelligent people that wound up being victims of his scam. And he actually was kind of of that mind that If you're too smart, you wouldn't be scammed. He actually blamed his victims at one point.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

He said, if anyone looked into what I said I was doing, they would know it's impossible. But when you mentioned about the Nigerian email scam, it brought a smile to my face because lately the Nigerian email scam is still with us and they are absolutely even more ridiculous than ever. And at first I was thinking, you know, why would they do that?

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

He said, if anyone looked into what I said I was doing, they would know it's impossible. But when you mentioned about the Nigerian email scam, it brought a smile to my face because lately the Nigerian email scam is still with us and they are absolutely even more ridiculous than ever. And at first I was thinking, you know, why would they do that?

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

He said, if anyone looked into what I said I was doing, they would know it's impossible. But when you mentioned about the Nigerian email scam, it brought a smile to my face because lately the Nigerian email scam is still with us and they are absolutely even more ridiculous than ever. And at first I was thinking, you know, why would they do that?

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

And the thing is, they want to get the most vulnerable, the most greedy, and people who will fall for it. They don't want to spend time with someone who will be asking a lot of questions. But the short answer to your question is anyone can get scammed, and the person that thinks they're too smart for it, they're going to be the next victim.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

And the thing is, they want to get the most vulnerable, the most greedy, and people who will fall for it. They don't want to spend time with someone who will be asking a lot of questions. But the short answer to your question is anyone can get scammed, and the person that thinks they're too smart for it, they're going to be the next victim.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

And the thing is, they want to get the most vulnerable, the most greedy, and people who will fall for it. They don't want to spend time with someone who will be asking a lot of questions. But the short answer to your question is anyone can get scammed, and the person that thinks they're too smart for it, they're going to be the next victim.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

One of the things is the Internet of Things. Anything that you have that is connected to the Internet and that is a vulnerability for you. So, you know, if you have a smart TV in your home. If you haven't protected that and changed the default password, an identity thief can get into, hack into your Internet of Things device. And there were more than 1.5 billion attacks last year on these.

Something You Should Know
Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Mastering The Art of Deal-Making

One of the things is the Internet of Things. Anything that you have that is connected to the Internet and that is a vulnerability for you. So, you know, if you have a smart TV in your home. If you haven't protected that and changed the default password, an identity thief can get into, hack into your Internet of Things device. And there were more than 1.5 billion attacks last year on these.

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