Episode 28 - Arts, crafts & everything In between.

What you can do to protect yourself from scammers that are trying to scam you.

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning, good afternoon, goodevening, and welcome everyone to ours castam
Between. I am your host,Eileen aka Eileen the Little Crafter. Please
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as always, guys, thank youso much from the bottom I heart for
listening to Ask Me podcast last week'spodcast. I hope that you have enjoyed

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it. I recently learned a funfact about this, uh the Dead Boy
Agency, which is on Netflix.If you guys haven't watched it, I
highly recommend it. Yes, soI found out that it is part of
the I guess DC Slash universe.I guess it is part of Dream or

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yeah Dream, which was also onNetflix. Deaf from that show makes an
appearance. And also it was acomic book and they had my own little
comic book thing running for a littlebit, so that was pretty cool.
They did change a little bit hereand there, so if you guys wanted

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to look into, you know,some videos on YouTube, I would highly
recommend it. It was pretty interesting. I actually like the changes. I
think that they were enjoyable. Butyeah, so that was last week's I
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So I have been getting a lotof spam emails, well not emails,
more text messages. So I justwant to, you know, talk to
you guys about that and be onthe lookout for these types of scams and
what you can do, you know, to kind of protect yourself. Diligent

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diligent diligence. I highly recommend assoon as you wake up, when you
had finished your coffee or in themiddle of drinking your coffee, I would
highly recommend you check your social mediaaccounts. Make sure that you are or
not have not been locked out ofit. Your website, check all of

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it. Don't use passwords that youmay have used with other sites, try
to change them up. And ifyou're like me and forget some things,
put it, you know, ina place where nobody else can see the
passwords. And yeah, I knowthat using an Apple device for me has

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helped and it saves me some headachefrom that, but I still would highly
recommend you put down the passport someplacewhere you know nobody else can see it.
And uh yeah, so that's theother thing, you know, uh
report uh suspicious you know texas thatyou get such as like if you know

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for a fact that I like theone that I get that I've gotten link
for like three or four days lastweek in or role practically telling me that
my what was it my Facebook pagewas and violation of copyrights just then the

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third I basically looked into it becauseyou not YouTube, Facebook will let you
know whether or not if your pageis in good standing. So therefore you
can look into that and make surethat you're you're not violating any regulations on
YouTube, especially Facebook. I thinkthat you know and report them, report

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them that delete the message, andyou know they will stop bothering you hopefully
eventually. Don't look and well actuallydon't don't hire anybody that is like texting
you every day asking you if youwant help with your website. Just go

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hire one of the professionals, youknow, like look into Google, you
know, people with websites, youknow, or ask your friends or family
if they know anything about websites becauseyou never know what that you know what
that could entail, because again youwould have to give them your password and

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then God forbid, God is forbid, you are locked out of your your
account. So don't don't. Don'tdo that. If you want to learn
about stuff like that, then maybelook on YouTube. Some videos are really

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helpful. There are also some Askill share is another place where you can
learn about websites and stuff like that. They do if you I know that
Shopify is huge right now, sothey do have a playlist about how to
fix up Shopify. What else doI do? I took every day,

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I look into things. I personallyI am not into you know, like
you know they say the post everyday. If you do, if you're
not into that, it's okay.But yeah, I would hire if you
guys want somebody like for social media, I would have asked somebody that you

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really trust and that you know thatthey are not going to just take the
product and run. I've heard ofsocial many influencers that were stild two to
five hundred dollars items uh for freebecause they promised that they would promote them.

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I wouldn't do that, and I'mnot going to. If I want
somebody, I will actually reach outto that person and say, hey,
I have this idea and I waswondering. And if if it doesn't foll
though, then I know for afact, and I'm gonna be honest with
you, I will put that personon blast. Yes I would, m
hm. So if this has happenedto you, I highly recommend you put

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the person on blast because it's it'sit's sickening, it's it's deplorable, it's
it's feeling, you know, andyour time, your product shouldn't be taken

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away like that. That's just rude. If you are a seller on Etsy,
I highly recommend you look into thenew measures that they have taken because
a lot of Etsy sellers have beencomplaining that they have been scammed or keep

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getting emails that their account is beinggoing to be closed or some other craziness,
and it's just really really these scammersare just deplorable and and they just
don't care. You know, millionsand billions of dollars are being taken from
people their hard earned money. AndI watch those videos where the scammers are

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laughing and making jokes and you knowabout the person that that they just finished
stamming, where the stammers get scammed, and yeah, it's it's really sad,
and you know, uh, it'sso sad and it makes it makes

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me very very angry. So yeah, so it's it's sickening. And I
know that the laws are finally catchingup, and I know that it's hard
to catch these people, and uh, yeah, you know, so just
be diligent. Check your your stuffevery day, try and learn, whether

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it's self taught, whether it's readingyou know, blogs, books, you
know, going to a bookstore andor ordering books about the subject that you
want to learn. Podcasts. Iknow a lot of podcasters. There are
other right bitable sellers out there,whether it's selling Etsy or shopify, personal

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or puity that have courses that youcan whether they're free or just a little
bit of a fee, they areyou know, there to help you.
And if that's something you're interested in, I would highly recommend that or look
into. Like if you don't wantyou want to hire somebody, then I
would google it yourself and pick somebodyfrom their friends and family are always a

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good reference to try and work withsomebody. Anything else, I don't think
so. I think that is aboutit, and I don't want to keep
you guys too long, so Ihope that you enjoy your weekend or have
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leave the links down to everything andyeah, that's for it for now,
So buy for now and I willcatch you in the next podcast. Bye
for now.