We have producers Brook and Julie in the studio to help us out.
[00:00:19] Brook: Hey, how are you?
[00:00:21] Will: I’m great.
Julie, how are you?
[00:00:22] Julie: I’m well, thank you.
[00:00:23] Will: Julie, you were featured actually on one of our shows.
[00:00:26] Julie: I was.
[00:00:26] Will: The pizza person, and I’m going to get back to that.
Alright, with that aside, we would now like to jump into today’s very special episode.
We’re going to ask you some, some uh some scam questions.
They’ll go from uh easy-ish to hard-ish.
Brook, do you want to go first?
[00:01:21] Brook: Yeah, I’ll go first.
[00:01:22] Will: You look ready.
[00:01:22] Brook: I’m probably going to get them wrong, but let’s go.
[00:01:28] Brook: Okay.
[00:01:28] Will: We’ll just all shame you.
[00:01:29] Brook: And it’s not multiple choice.
Here’s your first question: drumroll, do you have drums?
[00:01:46] Brook: Credit card.
I know that one.
[00:01:50] Will: You’ve really been listening.
[00:01:50] Brook: Yeah.
[00:01:52] Will: Brook, you are correct, and do you know why that is?
Well,…
[00:01:54] Brook: Oh, I do know why.
[00:01:56] Will: Go ahead, go ahead.
And I know this from personal experience.
[00:02:11] Will: Okay.
[00:02:16] Brook: Okay.
Okay, fix it then.
From Season 1 of The Perfect Scam.
[00:02:35] Brook: No, I didn’t study.
[00:01:52] Will: Okay.
Julie, you ready?
[00:02:38] Julie: I’m ready.
[00:02:38] Will: You’re nervous.
[00:02:38] Julie: I’m nervous.
[00:02:41] Will: Can I ask a really easy one?
[00:02:42] Julie: Oh yes, c’mon.
Is that every Friday pretty much?
[00:02:51] Julie: Pretty much.
[00:02:52] Will: I like that.
Just to know what you’re going to do.
[00:03:07] Julie: No.
It is not okay.
And Frank told me that.
[00:03:22] Will: Right.
[00:03:23] Julie: Right?
Um, actually but something very interesting happened recently.
You have to go in now.
[00:03:40] Brook: Oh, that’s smart.
[00:03:41] Julie: Because… exactly, right?
[00:03:42] Will: Protects them and you maybe.
[00:03:52] Julie: That’s correct.
[00:04:10] Julie: I actually, from Frank, now I go with cash.
Great, so you guys are 1 for 1 each of you.
You’re 100%.
Brook, your next question, it’s going to get, it’s getting harder, I think.
[00:04:33] Brook: Ooh, I already now.
[00:04:35] Julie: Gosh.
[00:04:36] Brook: Stop and verify.
[00:04:37] Will: Wow.
[00:04:37] Julie: Wow!
[00:04:39] Brook: I listened to the whole thing.
[00:04:41] Will: You would have gotten that, you would have gotten that, Julie.
[00:04:42] Julie: Maybe.
[00:04:43] Brook: I’m here every time we record.
[00:04:51] Brook: Yeah.
[00:04:51] Will: Alright, so Brook, amazing work.
Brook knows that stop and verify.
[00:04:55] Brook: Yes, and I’ve told other people this now.
[00:05:15] Will: Boom.
And you look up the number of the bank and you call.
[00:05:27] Brook: Yeah.
[00:05:28] Will: Alright, uh Brook, you’re 2 for 3 now.
[00:05:32] Julie: Oh gosh, she’s tough.
[00:05:33] Will: Julie, question number two.
This is a little sneaky so I apologize in advance.
It reads “https, not http.”
[00:06:04] Julie: Correct.
So there has to be an s.
[00:06:06] Will: Julie, yes.
[00:06:07] Julie: Yes.
[00:06:08] Brook: Ding-ding-ding.
[00:06:09] Will: Alright.
We’ll give it to her.
If you’re on just an http, danger.
[00:06:21] Julie: Good, good question though.
[00:06:23] Will: Thank you.
Uh, Brook, are you ready for your third and final question?
We may have a bonus question for you if it’s tied up.
[00:06:28] Will: Okay.
Brook, what is the safest way to post a photo online?
That’s a little confusing.
What should that photo, how should you be positioned in that photo?
[00:06:46] Brook: It shouldn’t be sort of like… it used…
I don’t know how to explain this.
You shouldn’t be like face forward.
It shouldn’t be like a passport photo.
You shouldn’t be like face forward, eyes forward.
[00:07:09] Will: I’m not giving her any clues with my face.
[00:07:11] Julie: Can I build?
Can I build on that response?
[00:07:14] Will: Yes.
[00:07:14] Julie: Um, it should be more of a side profile.
[00:07:17] Will: Thank you, Julie.
[00:07:18] Brook: Yes.
That’s what I was saying, right?
[00:07:26] Brook: Like cheated not to the front was what I was trying to say.
[00:07:31] Will: Glasses.
[00:07:32] Brook: Like not your passport folder.
Not, not…
[00:07:34] Julie: I think that was, I think that still works.
[00:07:43] Will: No, no, I think you got it.
I think we’ll probably give it to you.
You did, you did well.
Just not like a passport was a good answer, and then Julie did a nice job of clarifying.
Julie, for your third and final question, name three tactics scammers use to expose vulnerability.
Again, the answer’s probably easier than you think.
Three ways in which scammers can identify, can, three ways in which people are vulnerable.
Maybe that’s another way to put it.
Um, and scammers use different ways of freaking you out on the phone, right?
And sometimes it might be (blank).
Or sometimes it might be (blank).
Name two of the three.
I’m going to give this to you.
[00:08:20] Julie: Like, that’s a hard question.
Is it, are you asking what do scammers prey on?
[00:08:33] Julie: Okay.
[00:08:51] Julie: They would try and establish a personal relationship with them.
They would try and…
[00:08:58] Will: Yeah, they’d connect with them.
[00:08:59] Julie: Um-hm, they’d connect with them, exactly.
And they’ll try and put them underneath their ether.
[00:09:02] Will: Right.
Right, okay, so that’s a good answer.
[00:09:12] Will: Perfect.
[00:09:12] Julie: Threatened.
[00:09:13] Will: Done.
[00:09:13] Julie: Scare.
[00:09:14] Will: Fear.
[00:09:14] Julie: Oh my gosh, do they prey on fear.
[00:09:16] Will: Right?
[00:09:17] Julie: Yes.
I think I have…
[00:09:36] Julie: Do we have a bonus round?
[00:09:37] Will: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:09:37] Julie: Okay, cool.
[00:09:39] Will: Brook.
[00:09:40] Brook: Okay.
[00:09:41] Will: Final question in the bonus round.
[00:10:07] Will: Done.
[00:10:08] Brook: Because they haven’t established their identity online or credit wise yet.
[00:10:26] Julie: Hmm, it’s so scary.
[00:10:28] Will: They’re very vulnerable.
[00:10:29] Brook: Yes.
[00:10:30] Will: So people who don’t even have credit yet.
[00:10:32] Julie: Poor babies.
[00:10:33] Will: Right, so look out for your children.
Julie, so Brook is 4 for 4.
She got the bonus question.
[00:10:49] Will: We’ve got to get out of here.
[00:10:50] Julie: Okay.
Wrap it up, okay, cool.
Wait, are there any prizes?
[00:10:55] Will: Yes.
[00:10:56] Brook: What?
[00:10:57] Will: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:10:58] Julie: Nice.
[00:10:58] Will: But not if you both win.
[00:11:00] Julie: Oh.
[00:11:23] Julie: Absolutely.
[00:11:24] Will: Yeah, that’s too easy.
[00:11:25] Julie: Absolutely.
Can’t trust anyone right?
That doesn’t matter at all.
Right, so phone numbers, it doesn’t matter what number it is.
Don’t trust the caller ID.
[00:11:57] Brook: Yeah.
[00:11:57] Julie: Right?
And I immediately think, oh, it’s DC, it’s gotta be someone I know.
So, don’t ever answer phone calls from phone numbers you don’t really know.
They asked questions, we had them on a little bit.
[00:12:35] Julie: That’s correct.
Never engage, you’re not supposed to.
[00:12:37] Will: No, no.
[00:12:38] Julie: No, no.
[00:12:41] Julie: Yeah.
[00:12:48] Julie: Yeah.
[00:12:49] Will: So much information.
[00:13:01] Julie: Dinner with Frank?!
Twelve new episodes, twelve and counting at this point.
In the meantime, go to PodcastAwards.com, nominate The Perfect Scam for the People’s Choice Podcast Award.
Did I get that right?
[00:13:31] Julie: You sure did.
[00:13:31] Brook: Yes.
[00:12:53] Will: And that’s all July, so starting in July.
[00:13:40] Will: Alright, stay tuned folks and come back July 27th.
We’ll be back with a brand new season.
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Well be back with new episodes ofThe Perfect Scamon July 27.
And dont forget to nominateThe Perfect ScamforThe Peoples Choice Podcast Awards.
Nominations end on July 31.
