BONUS: We Get Easily Scammed...

Turns out we're all getting scammed on the daily! Join Intern John, Sos, and Rose as we look at a new study on how often we're scammed and more!


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Intern John and your morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Happy Wednesday, friend, Welcome to the show, Intern John.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Is my name Sauce.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello, Hello Rose, Hi Hi, I got to Eric here,
got a hoodie here. Would love to hear from you.
Nine ninety three three eight to text. Our DM is
always open at WYMUS Radio. Very exciting, it's always nice
and we're number one on the list. Americans are number
one for getting targeted by scammers.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Oh, I mean that does what makes sense? I feel
like most of.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Them aren't here now.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I think that's there.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
So they say we get scammed on average twenty five
times a week.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Really, which, Yeah, I happen to be a lot of
text scams, like more so than more than usual.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I literally woke up to one today.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
What was yours today?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
It was a link? I believe I was half asleep.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
It was a link though, for something to do with
like my Instagram account or something.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
But it was from a three oho one number.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Sure, So I was like, why is like a Moco
number texting me about my Instagram?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I get job ones where it's like, hey, this is
Julie from the recruiting firm. I'm like, I haven't talked
to recruiting.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Firms well living getting put in those big.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Group texts that sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
What why?

Speaker 5 (01:06):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
They say is about three or four per day, that
includes nine calls per week.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
I don't even answer calls.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
I don't get Yeah, I don't get that.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
But it's weird because my spammers are from Minnesota area codes.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
So that's why I know for sure. It's like not
some money to answer.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, I got a call from Egypt yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
What they say? Anything fun?

Speaker 4 (01:22):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
The prince Sure, yeah, he wants to give me all
his money.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
That's good diet for one of those things.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Another nine emails okay, and then seven scammy text messages.
They say it's more than a thousand bogus messages a year.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh yeah, there's so many.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
I feel like I get more than that. Like the
scammy text ones I think can get a lot. I
think get a lot of them lately. Yeah, I don't
know about the emails anymore. And the calls, I mean,
I don't answer any call now.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
The trickiest ones that think they did pretty good job,
like Amazon ones where it's like we try to or
it'll be from the post quote unquote post obviously we
missed your delivery today Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Those are the ones where you get to think.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Like, wait a second, but also they're at like dot com,
which it is doc com.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, mother, is that that's a fair yes?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
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