Scammers & DIY Halloween

Do you get scam calls and emails? Dangerous Dave talks about how Americans are most likely to be targets of scammers. Plus, DIY Halloween costumes are popular for many reasons including cost and availability.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is stable in the den with dangerous day. Well,
I know this might be tough to believe, but you
just got a text from a recruiter offering five hundred
dollars a day for a job that you're not qualified for. Congratulations,
I hope you didn't respond. A new poll found Americans
are the number one target for scammers. The average person
in the US dealing with twenty five ify messages a week,

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or three or four per day. That includes nine calls
per week, another nine emails, seven scammy text messages. It
adds up more than one thousand bogus messages a year.
They pulled people in different countries. On the average, Americans
get targeted twice as much as everyone else. Britz are
a close second at twenty one times per week. Average
American get the most emails sitting in their spam folder

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right now, an average of three hundred and fifty of them.
Anyone can fall to a scam if they're not careful.
Twenty three percent of people polled said they already have.
Nearly a third of Americans admit they sometimes answer a
phone call even if their phone tells them it's potential spam.
I try not to it's a little tough because sometimes
business phone rolls over to my cell phone, and then

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you never know who's going to be if it's somebody
important still waiting for that person, but it could be
super in the two. Well, it's October. That means the
clock is officially ticking for Halloween costumes, especially if you're
a parent who's hoping to make your kids' costumes this year.
And a new survey, fifty two percent of parents said
they planned a DIY their kids costumes, and the percentage

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is higher in Colorado, Iowa, California, Maryland in Arkansas. Obviously,
saving money is the number one reason, but there's other reasons.
Some parents make costumes to be more creative and unique.
Other costumes aren't available or aren't worth the price, or
it's a family tradition just to make them. The average
DIY costume gonna cost about forty bucks, where the ready

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made costumes will cost up to seventy or well over
adds up if you have multiple trick or treaders. Eighty
one percent of parents feel pressure to create instagram worthy costumes,
and Idaho parents seem to be most stressed about that,
followed by Missourian Connecticut. There aren't a lot of details
what parents are making yet, but Pokemon is still popular,
along with Taylor Swift Lebooboo, classic spooky costumes like witches,

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were a, Wolf's coasts, vampires, skeletons, superheroes and other unique creations,
and of course, the scariest costume of all, the Boss.
On Monday morning, tune again for another episode of Deeper
in the Den with dangerous Dave light Hear