May 27, 2025 • 41 mins
We all make mistakes, and last week I made a mistake with sharing my screen. So, here is a redo on how to determine the safety of a website.
Last week you saw my notes for the episode and today you will see how I use R.O.S.E.'s website to show you what to look for and some online sources you can use to determine the safety of websites.
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Last week you saw my notes for the episode and today you will see how I use R.O.S.E.'s website to show you what to look for and some online sources you can use to determine the safety of websites.
Let’s Talk About Scams is broadcast live Tuesdays at 8AM PT on K4HD Radio - Hollywood Talk Radio (www.k4hd.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). Let’s Talk About Scams TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).
Let’s Talk About Scams Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for individual professional / legal advice. The podcast information was carefully compiled from vetted sources and references; however, R.O.S.E. Resources / Outreach to Safeguard the Elderly cannot guarantee that you will not fall victim to a scam.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This program is designed to provide general information with regards
to the subject matters covered. This information is given with
the understanding that neither the hosts, guests, sponsors, or station
are engaged in rendering any specific and personal medical, financial,
legal counseling, professional service, or any advice.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You should seek the services.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Of competent professionals before applying or trying any suggested ideas.
The information contained in this podcast is intended for informational
purposes only and is not a substitute for individual professional
legal advice. The podcast information was carefully compiled from BETED
sources and references. However, Rose Resources outreach to safeguard the
(00:45):
elderly cannot guarantee that you will not fall victim to
a scam. Let's talk about scams. It's the must listen
show for anyone who wants to protect themselves and their
loved ones from scams. Every Tuesday am Pacific time on
K four HD Radio, Joyce Petrowski, founder of Rose, and
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her guests will provide valuable insights and practical tips on
how to recognize and protect yourself from scams. And now
here is your host, Joyce Petrowski.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Hi, everyone, welcome back to let's talk about scams. I'm
your host, Joyce Petrowski, founder of Rose Resources Outreach to
Safeguard the Elderly. So last week's show was how do
I want to say? Probably was not that of a website.
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And I'm going to go through and share my screen
and I'm going to use our website, Rose Advocacy as
an example when I go through these different tips. And
so this week you're going to be able to actually
see me sharing my screen and doing all of this
versus last week. And I apologize for this. I clicked
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the wrong thing and all you saw were my notes
up on the screen the whole time while I was talking.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I'll show you real quick.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I always at the beginning of every show, I always
say about going to our website and signing up for
our email newsletters.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I'll show you where that's at the.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Social media links, and then also where there's some different resources.
So I'm going to start sharing and I'm going to
go into the Rose Advocacy website and I'm going to
go through and so first of all, just really quick,
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We've got our resources tab over here and you can
come down.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You can look at our supporters.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
There's different articles, videos, We've got a bunch of testimonials,
some downloadable resources, our previous newsletters, and we've got some
media on there as well.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But you can go down to.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, here's our social media links at the top, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram,
and then YouTube, and then if you scroll down on
the homepage here, this is where I tell you about
signing up for the newsletters you'll see down here at
the bottom. You can subscribe to our email list. Once
your first name, last name, email address, and this is
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our mailed newsletters. So we need your first and last
name in your address in order to in your email,
and then we will add you to our mailed newsletters
that go out the beginning of every month. We also
down here have a button called archives, and that has some.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Old articles.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
From different sources where you can actually go in and
look at those articles on a wide variety of safety
topics and different scam topics. So now let's get back
to how to determine the safety of a website. So
you can check the URL.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So this is Roseadvocacy dot org.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And if you click on this toggle switch here it
says view site information. So I'm going to click on
that sometimes if you don't see the toggle switch. You
might see a padlock icon. We have a padlock here,
but that's our logo here. Sometimes you might see a
padlock up here. It's the same thing. If you hover
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over it, it'll say view site information. You click on
it and you can come down here. It says connection
is secure and you can click on it to find
out more information about how the information is private when
it's sent to this site. Learn more. You can learn
more about that certificate is valid. So that's a certificate
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that I would have had to have purchased through where
I got my domain, and I got the Rose Advocacy
domain through godat and they have options where you can
purchase security certificates. I believe it's the acronymus SSL for it.
And it's not that expensive, just like buying a domain
is not that expensive. And so we're hearing more and
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more that scammers are they actually will build fake websites.
And so if you're looking at the website up here,
you know Rosadvocacy dot org, and you know that you're
gonna go to roses website, you know your your your
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your mind and your naked eye might read Rose Advocacy
because you know that's the website, but scammers will they'll
buy a domain that maybe And I'm trying to look
at some of these letters to see if they changed
it a certain way. Where so, for instance, this first
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letter this are, Well, if they changed it to a
lowercase end, would you really see that difference? Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
There?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
If they change this O to a zero, you probably
would see it because the zero is going to be
a lot bigger than this than the O. But you
can see they they might just take one letter and
change it to a number. They might change a letter
to a different letter, just a really slight difference that
maybe your naked eye is not going to see it.
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And so a lot of times, if you take all
of these these letters here, letters and or numbers.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Whatever makes up the website, the domain, and.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You write each one down as an individual character, and
then look at those individual characters to see if they
make sense, that's going to help you as well. And
so yes, this looking here at the security you know
you can see if the website is secure, the certific
the security certificate is valid, all of that stuff. But
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as scammer's evolved, and we've talked a lot about this,
the month of May in our show, they evolve in
their techniques, and one of the ways is, you know,
they evolved by creating these fake websites and they make
the domain look so close to what the real legitimate
domain is. Is that especially if you're in a hurry,
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if you've got, you know, three different things going on
and you glance at it, you know your naked eye
might not see those differences. So helping helping you identify
those really slight differences in the domain name, writing down
each character is really going to help you. Some people
have even told me what they do is they write
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everything down backwards, or they look at it backwards, they
read it to themselves backwards, and that might help you
to try that as well. So we already talked about
this toggle switch, the padlock. I I'm going to go
back to this padlock here. Cookies and site data. You
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can go in there and you can say that it
says cookies and other site data use to remember you,
for example, to sign you in or to personalize ads.
If you want to manage those cookies for all sites.
You go to your settings and they have a a if.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I click.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Just look at what your settings are and change them
as you see fit there.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Let me get back into that.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think that was it there, Yeah, that was it
on the cookies and then site settings down here you
can get into this and it's going to give you
a lot of different information like permissions for location. I've
got it set to ask, that's the default, and if
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you click here, if you say allow, then if you
go to get on a website and the website wants
to track your location, if you've got it as allow,
it's going to automatically allow it. Or you can click
block and it'll automatically block the website from tracking your location.
Or you can have ask and it'll ask you. It'll
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give you the prompt that they want to track your location,
and you can say yes or no to it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You can say allow it.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I think the choices are allow always, allow, or allow
this time only or block it. But you can go
down through all of this location, camera, microphone motion, all
kinds of stuff all down through here. And for insecure content,
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I have block automatically block on that, so you can
change to to whatever whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You feel comfortable with.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
And this actually if you go back to all sites,
it's going to come down and it's going to give
you all these sites that you've been on recently and
how many cookies are there, and you can go down
and you can go down and get rid of all
the cookies individual ones that are here, if you understand
what all of these are, or if maybe you want
to clear cookies on some of these sites. Maybe you
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got on a site once for some particular reason and
it's not a site that you usually go to, so
you could just go over here and hit the trash
can and it's going to delete the site data and
the permissions for it's going to delete all of it
instead of having to go down into these individual thirty
seven cookies and delete them. Or you just might want
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to get rid of everything for all of these websites again,
and these are by these are the most visited ones.
You can go down and look at the data stored
ones or by name and check all of that. Let
me see here, I think that might have been that.
That was the last thing on that. Another thing they
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say you can do to check the security and safety
of a site is kind of look down through the
homepage and and look at what they have on here.
And you know, again this was one of the older ways,
you know, check for grammatical errors, poor spelling, awkward phrasings,
all kinds of stuff like that. You go down through ours,
you're going to see there's really not you know, misspelled
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there's not misspelled words or grammatical errors or stuff like that.
But with the advent of artificial intelligence, and part of
that is the chat GBT, and I think.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
There's co pilot, there's there's a bunch of.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
There's a bunch of generative text artificial intelligence sources, and
and so that's where this kind of ties into how
you know, previously you could tell when an email came
through or a text, or if you got something in
the mail and it just had really bad grammar, that
was your telltale sign that that was a scam. Well,
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with all these generative text websites, this artificial intelligence, scammers
are using that just like we use it, and they're
using it to create to what really looks like legitimate websites.
So you might not find that there's a lot of
grammatical errors or misspellings or you know, the awkward phrasing
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and stuff like that, because now artificial intelligence is helping
them correct of all of these errors and making the
website look a lot more legitimate. You can also contact information.
You know, we have ours all the way down here
at the bottom. We have our mailing address, our phone number,
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we have an efex. Our email is down here. You
know the copyright, who designed and is hosting the website.
We've got our disclaimer down here, so you know a
lot of you can look at those things as well.
The thing that really helps, and you know another thing
is they say to go to the Better Business Bureau,
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right because some people if they've found that it's a
you know, not a good website, it's a fraudulent website,
or maybe it's a it's a website, maybe it is
an actual company but they're just using aggressive sales tactics
to get business and stuff like that, so that they
might report them to the Better Business Bureau file a complaint.
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So you can also check them out there. But I
think these online tools that I'm going to go through
next can be very very helpful, and I'm gonna I'm
gonna type them in here and I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Going to use.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
My website Rose Advocacy to to go in and look
it up. So the first one is going to be
it's called the U R L Void dot com, so
yourelvoid dot com. You see, I've gotten into it before,
so it automatically came up and this is you'll see here.
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It's a website reputation checker. Now I did this last
week and it came up that there was everything was good,
and I've been making.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Some changes to the website.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
So I'm going to put my website name in here,
and I'm going to say scan website, and this is
going to come up and give you a bunch of
different information about the website. So you can see the
website address, Roseadvocacy dot org. They last analyzed it three
months ago. You could actually tell it to rescan again.
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Detection counts zero out of thirty nine, so there's thirty
nine different things they're going to scan for and they
didn't find us on any of them, which is good.
And we'll go in and we'll look at some of
those places. You can look at when I registered the domain,
and our incorporation date was August twenty first of twenty
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twenty one, or August twenty third, twenty twenty one, anyways,
but you'll see here where I bought the domain August
twenty seventh, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Makes sense.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's within a week of when we actually were incorporated
in the state of Arizona.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You can see the IP address.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
You can see who our web hosting is here, the
server locations in the United States. So that's a good thing.
You can tell if it's in the United States or
if it's in another country. Not saying that if a
server is in another country that it's necessarily a bad thing,
but you can tell there. This is just a Google
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map and then a lot of personal identify viable information
and you're not going to see here. But then the
scanning engines down here, this is what I told you
up here were these zero out of thirty nine, so
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detection counts the thirty nine different. So you're gonna they
scanned all of these different engines and it says here
nothing found on all of these green check mark nothing found.
Everything's in green. Now we can go in and view
more details. So a bitdefender, let's go in there and
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we can view more details. And it has the Rose
Advocacy website. We haven't seen any suspicious activity from this website,
so that's good.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Green check mark. All of these.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Different things will tell you when they come up with
these different icons what that means so the one of
these website may contain malware. Here the icon, the website
is classified as phishing. Here this website pretends to be
a financial institution. You can see here how it's instead
of b A n K, it's b NAK, so it's
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a fake bank website.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You can look here. Escro scam.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
They've got all these icons right, represents a Facebook scam.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
So you've got the face the f.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Reversed again hosted phishing attack in the last ninety days.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Another icon.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Was found in unsolicited email messages, and so they'll have
this email icon. So just a bunch of different things
that they're going to look for. And so now I'm
going to go back to here and I'm going to
pull up another one. See if I so look here cybercrime.
Let's go look at cybercrime view more details. And that's interesting.
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I have it says no result for Roseada becausey which
is great because I really don't want to be on
I don't want to come up on this on this
cyber crime tracker. But if a cop, if if a
website did, you're going to have a bunch of information here.
Let me go and look at another one fake website
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built buster. Let's go look at that. Oh this is interesting.
Your connection is not private and you can see up here.
So it gave me a warning says not secure here,
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and I could go into advance to learn more, but
I don't necessarily you can still go to it, but
I want to go back to safety. So I'm just
going to go back to safety, and I'm going to
go back here and let's look up here. Let's look
up fishing database. See what comes up there. So this
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is just a bunch of fishing domain data. Oh, this
is I think they're coming up with a bunch of
different It'll tell you if you've you've come up in
any of these fishing links. Some of these is they
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have a lot of technical uh jargon on here. So
let me see what some of these other ones are.
I haven't been into a lot of these. But the
one thing you want to look for, as I said earlier,
is right here. You don't want to be found on
any of these scanning engines or you know, if the
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website you're trying to determine if it's safe or not
and it's secure, something does come up. You can go
into these few more details and you can look and
see what this what the scanning engines said about them.
So that's one thing you can do. Another thing here
is they the domain information? You could go into this
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who is look up and it tells you right pains
police records. Interesting, okay, but I'm going to put my
domain in there. Click that you're not a robot. Click
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the who is look up and it's going to give
you some information about that's just an ad.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Don't worry about that. All that.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Jargon up there, But now you can get some more
information about the actual domain Roseadvocacy dot org. It's going
to give you the domain id, the server and I
purchased it at go daddy, and so that's the who
is server is at go daddy, so that makes sense.
The last time they updated it was November twenty fifth
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of twenty four. Again, this creation date matches with what
we looked at on the previous screen for the domain
reputation that it was created on August twenty seventh, twenty
twenty one. I renew it every year, the domain, and
so right now it expires on August twenty seventh, twenty
twenty five. So sometime between now and then, I will
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go in and I'll renew it for another year and
then that'll get updated to twenty twenty six. The registrars
GoDaddy dot com LLC. That makes sense because the server
is up here at go Daddy. You're going to get
some information about the registrar at go Daddy. If you
want to report abuse, here is how to do it
and the phone number. But then you're going to see
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this redacted down here on a lot of this information.
And that's because there years ago there was a bill
or a law enacted that said you have to really
restrict the personal identifiable information, and so they've it's not
that it's not there, it is, it's just you can't
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see it because it's been redacted.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
All this personal identifiable information.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And that's for the registrant, that's for the admin, you know,
the tech name, all of that's been redacted. So and
I recognize this here cloud Fair that's my cybersecurity, my
cybersecurity company that monitors this laptop that I use and
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monitors everything.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's one of the.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Softwares that they use as cloud Fare. So it makes
sense that this would come up. Let's see and it
tells you here if you want more information on status codes.
You can go to this website, so just really quickly
to give you an idea of the who is and
what data is stored. It's a public database that hosts
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the information collected when someone registers a domain name. A
domain name is an Internet address, a website address. And
actually I could go in and type in for here
Rosadvocacy dot net instead of dot org, because I purchased
the dot net one, and you'll see the same information
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coming up as well. Let's see here it's monitored by
the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It goes
back to nineteen eighty two. And then the bunch of
information on how to install it. And I'm not even
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going to begin to tell you what all of this,
how to install it and all that. That's where you
need to have a really good website host person that
can go in and do all this for you. But
let me see what one of these other ones are. Oh,
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the Google Transparency Reports. So I'm going to go into
the website here for Google Transparency Report.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oops. There it is Transparencyreport dot Google.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Dot com Safe hyphen browsing.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So I'm going to go in. Oops, don't know what
I did there?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Okay, all right, So this is Google Safe Browsing Site status.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Again.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You can go in and you can put in a
website address and no available data. That's interesting because last
time I put it in, it came up and said
that it was safe. So I'm wondering why if there's
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something there, we go no unsafe content found. So that's
what you want to see on the website that you
put in there. You know, I can put in I
don't know. Let me put in Amazon and.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
See what happens.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I haven't done this before, so we're gonna all find
out dot com see what happens here? Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Here it is.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
So it's hard to provide a simple safety status for
sites like Amazon, which have a lot of content. Sites
that are generally safe sometimes contain some unsafe content like
blogs or comments. So it says check a specific directory
or web page. So you probably would have to go
into a specific page and find that address and put
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that in there.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Because Amazon is huge.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
They're just they're a huge website and with all of
the orders and all the products and stuff they have.
So those are three different ways to check this Google
Safe Browsing this who is look up online where you
can find out a lot of information about the about
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the website itself, see if everything makes sense. And then
also you can go on here again that's the URL
void and I went there first. And then for the
who is part of it, I went in and clicked
right here on the who is look up was where
I found this information about the Rose Advocacy website. And
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you can see that everything kind of coordinates with both
of them. And then go down here and make sure
there's nothing found green check marks, nothing found on all
these thirty nine. So these are I think, I don't
want to say better, but yes you want to, you know,
look at the URL and make sure that every character
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and there is does make up the legitimate URL. Look
at the padlock icon or this toggle icon, and go
in and check out the secure connection. You can do
the cookies, site settings, all of that stuff, and you know,
verify the contact information that that looks legitimate and all that.
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But to take it to the next step to verify
the security. You know, if you want to bypass all
this that we talked about here, looking at the security connection,
the cookies, all of that stuff, looking for the at
the content, looking at reviews, things like that, go straight
to the online tools, or you can do all of them,
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but the online tools here and this one, and then
the safe brows Google safe browsing. These are just added
ways that because scammers evolve, right and we talked about
that earlier about how they can it's it's inexpensive to
bio domain and then to buy the security certificate for it,
so they can do that with a fake website and
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it's going to come up and say the connection secure
and all of that stuff. And so if you take
these added steps to go in and see if anything
comes up in these detection counts where they've found anything,
you know, with recent scans, it's.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
A it's a good thing to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It doesn't take that long, and it's just some added
steps to determine the safety and security of a website.
But then don't forget to when you're looking at the
up here, the domain, the ur L here. Some people
actually look at this and they read it backwards to
see that make sense, or they write down the letters backwards.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Some people they say that helps them. Other people they
want to write down each individual character. So they're going
to look at it and go, okay, that's an r
that's an O, that's an S, that's an E, and
go through and write it down and then look at
each character to see that yes, then it does make
sense because there could be just a very very slight
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difference in this URL that would then take you to
a not secure, possibly a scammer's website because your naked
eyes reading Rose Advocacy, because that's what your mind's looking for,
and you might not see those little nuances. So looking
at each individual character. And one of the examples I
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give in the presentations is and I'm not picking on Amazon,
but it's scammers love to impersonate Amazon. They're a huge,
reputable company. Almost everybody has an Amazon account, whether they
use it once in a while on a regular basis,
or set up the account and have never used it,
they have an account. And so scammers know that when
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they send these phishing emails or these schmishing texts out
to try to get you to call the number, click
on the link you to engage with them, they know
that they're going to have a higher chance of getting
more people to engage with them because there's so many
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people that have Amazon accounts. So the example that I
give with that is you know the Amazon website is
a M, A Z O N.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
But you know what if it's.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
A R N and so the R and the N
instead of the M, are you going to notice that
little difference there with Is your naked eye going to
see that that's an R and an N rs and
Robert N is in Nancy versus the M as in Mary.
It might not because to your naked eye, your mind's
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thinking Amazon. You might read Amazon. So that's where it's
good to write down the individual characters. You'd be more
apt to see that that is an R and an
N and and.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Not the M like it should be.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Some There's another thing when you're when you're browsing on
the on the internet is there's what's called incognito mode,
and you can so your browser. Let's see here it
says for to open a new incognito window in UH
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you press control shift and as in Nancy, And that's
on a that is on the anything but a Mac,
and you would use command instead of control, so it'd
be command shift and is in Nancy on a Mac,
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and it opens up a new incognito window in Chrome,
or you can go to the browser menu in Chrome
or Firefox and I believe that's over here, these three
right here, Yeah, these three.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I'm in Chrome.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
So these three dots over here on the far right
that ask if you want a new tab, a new window.
Here's a new INC window. There's a bunch of other
things down here as well. But and that's where it's
the I have a mac here, So it's a control
or no, I'm sorry, it's the command shift and then end.
But if you just click here, it then opens up
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you've gone in cognito, and so it tells you what
that is. Others who use this device won't see your activity,
so you can browse more privately. One of the a
reason why you might want to do this is if
you know, you and your spouse or you and the
kids share a device, and you're planning a surprise party,
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or it's you know, a celebration is coming up and
you want to get them a gift, and you don't
necessarily want them to see what you've been searching for
the gift or planning the party. Then you could do
it in cognito modes. So then whoever your child, your partner,
your spouse goes to get on your device after you
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were they won't be able to see what you've been browsing,
and so it also says this won't change how the
data is collected by the website you visit and the
services they use, you know, including Google downloads, bookmarks, and
reading item list items that'll all still be saved. But
Chrome won't save your browsing history. It won't save cookies
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and site data and information entered in forms. But your
activity might still be visible to the websites that you visit,
your employer, school, if you have, you know, your internet
service provider, So do you have a work computer or
you're a student and have a computer given to you
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through the school, They very well could have protocols on
those computers where they can see your activity. You can
also block third party cookies when on the sites can't
use cookies that track you across the web, so you
can that's turned off there, I had it turned on,
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and so that that's another way.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Again.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
The one big difference with incognito, you know we talked about.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Is and I want to find it on here.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
That you don't need to worry about clear clearing your
history or your cash or your cookies because the private
browsing modes don't save your browsing history, your cashed pages,
or cookies, so there's nothing to delete.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
So if you are one that.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Is on a regular basis going in and deleting your cookies,
for instance, this is a way where the cookies won't
get tracked. And so then you don't need to go
in and delete the cookies because they're they're not tracking them.
And sometimes I know when I'll go to get on
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like my website, after my website guy host website developer
has made changes, like, for instance, he just made a
bunch of changes last week on the website.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
But sometimes I'll go in and I'll look.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
At things to see what it looks like, how the
changes got made and things like that, and it won't
read correctly or it just looks weird, And so I'll
send a note to the website guy and say, hey,
I take a screenshot.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This is what comes up, and this is weird.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
It's not supposed to do this, and he'll say, have
you cleaned have you cleared out your cash recent recently? Sorry,
have you cleared out your cash recently? And that's the cacche.
And so if you are browsing incognito and stuff it
doesn't track and it doesn't keep the cash, so then
you don't have to go in and clear it out,
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but it can if you don't clear that out on
a regular basis, it can kind of change a little
bit on what you're seeing, or it might make a
website that you're usually on do something different that's not
what you're used to. And that's about all I can
get into on that aspect of it, because I don't
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really I'm not a techie person that knows exactly what
all the cash is.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
So just remember that on how to get in and.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Go to an incognito window and it'll say incognito up
here as well. You just click on. If you're on Chrome,
you can just click on these three dots and go
into a new incognito window. There this says you're incognito.
You could close this profile right here and it's going
to close that page take me back to where I
was before. But if you're on a Mac, you can
(37:59):
just hit commands shift and as in Nancy. Any any
other device, you're going to do the control shift and
then and as in Nancy. So hopefully this helped you,
especially being able to see what I was doing to
check the safety and security of websites as I was
in real time, as I was doing it with the
Rose Advocacy website. This is what you were supposed to
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have seen last week. But like I said, I made
the mistake of not sharing whole the whole page. I
clicked on just this one tab and it happened to
be the PDF tab that had my notes up on there.
So apologize for that. But the nice thing is we
get to do take two and that's what today is.
(38:44):
So thank you for joining us today. And if you
don't remember, you can get on Rose's website and you
can find a bunch of resources on this tab here.
You can if you're interested in scheduling a presentation and
it's on this tab. Donator or sponsors here. We have
events throughout the year. You can find them here. Latest
(39:07):
scams if you go on here, this is going to
have it's going to have some latest scams. But you
can download our Anatomy of a Scam infographic. It also
has the IC three, the Internet Crime Complaints Center, the
FBI's Fraud Report here for twenty twenty four. This is
(39:31):
just some We talked about this a couple of weeks
ago on the radio show. But here's the graph that
we referenced. If you want to find previous let's see
downloadable resources. I think it's here the previous FBI's elder
fraud reports. You can see them here all the way
back to two thousand and twenty. And it looks like
(39:55):
twenty twenty might have gotten on there twice so or no,
them needs to be twenty two.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
This should say twenty two.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
So anyways, there's just a bunch of different things, downloadable
things here that you can go in and look at.
And again you can go down to the bottom of
the page and there's archives, a lot of articles and
videos from years back from some curated sources, reliable sources
where we found some information.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
And go back to the homepage.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Here you can find our social media links all right here, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube,
they're at the bottom. Or here's some testimonials. We've got
about twenty one of them up here. If you want
to see John and say, retired FBI agent, you can
play his video. And here's how to sign up for
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our emailed list. Sign up for our monthly mailed newsletters.
What those are and again the social media links are here. Yeah,
so there you go, and we look forward to seeing
you back next week.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:20):
Hi, everyone, welcome back to let's talk about scams. I'm
your host, Joyce Petrowski, founder of Rose Resources Outreach to
Safeguard the Elderly. So last week's show was how do
I want to say? Probably was not that of a website.
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And I'm going to go through and share my screen
and I'm going to use our website, Rose Advocacy as
an example when I go through these different tips. And
so this week you're going to be able to actually
see me sharing my screen and doing all of this
versus last week. And I apologize for this. I clicked
(02:04):
the wrong thing and all you saw were my notes
up on the screen the whole time while I was talking.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I'll show you real quick.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I always at the beginning of every show, I always
say about going to our website and signing up for
our email newsletters.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I'll show you where that's at the.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Social media links, and then also where there's some different resources.
So I'm going to start sharing and I'm going to
go into the Rose Advocacy website and I'm going to
go through and so first of all, just really quick,
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We've got our resources tab over here and you can
come down.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
You can look at our supporters.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
There's different articles, videos, We've got a bunch of testimonials,
some downloadable resources, our previous newsletters, and we've got some
media on there as well.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But you can go down to.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, here's our social media links at the top, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram,
and then YouTube, and then if you scroll down on
the homepage here, this is where I tell you about
signing up for the newsletters you'll see down here at
the bottom. You can subscribe to our email list. Once
your first name, last name, email address, and this is
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our mailed newsletters. So we need your first and last
name in your address in order to in your email,
and then we will add you to our mailed newsletters
that go out the beginning of every month. We also
down here have a button called archives, and that has some.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Old articles.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
From different sources where you can actually go in and
look at those articles on a wide variety of safety
topics and different scam topics. So now let's get back
to how to determine the safety of a website. So
you can check the URL.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
So this is Roseadvocacy dot org.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
And if you click on this toggle switch here it
says view site information. So I'm going to click on
that sometimes if you don't see the toggle switch. You
might see a padlock icon. We have a padlock here,
but that's our logo here. Sometimes you might see a
padlock up here. It's the same thing. If you hover
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over it, it'll say view site information. You click on
it and you can come down here. It says connection
is secure and you can click on it to find
out more information about how the information is private when
it's sent to this site. Learn more. You can learn
more about that certificate is valid. So that's a certificate
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that I would have had to have purchased through where
I got my domain, and I got the Rose Advocacy
domain through godat and they have options where you can
purchase security certificates. I believe it's the acronymus SSL for it.
And it's not that expensive, just like buying a domain
is not that expensive. And so we're hearing more and
(05:15):
more that scammers are they actually will build fake websites.
And so if you're looking at the website up here,
you know Rosadvocacy dot org, and you know that you're
gonna go to roses website, you know your your your
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your mind and your naked eye might read Rose Advocacy
because you know that's the website, but scammers will they'll
buy a domain that maybe And I'm trying to look
at some of these letters to see if they changed
it a certain way. Where so, for instance, this first
(05:57):
letter this are, Well, if they changed it to a
lowercase end, would you really see that difference? Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
There?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
If they change this O to a zero, you probably
would see it because the zero is going to be
a lot bigger than this than the O. But you
can see they they might just take one letter and
change it to a number. They might change a letter
to a different letter, just a really slight difference that
maybe your naked eye is not going to see it.
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And so a lot of times, if you take all
of these these letters here, letters and or numbers.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Whatever makes up the website, the domain, and.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You write each one down as an individual character, and
then look at those individual characters to see if they
make sense, that's going to help you as well. And
so yes, this looking here at the security you know
you can see if the website is secure, the certific
the security certificate is valid, all of that stuff. But
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as scammer's evolved, and we've talked a lot about this,
the month of May in our show, they evolve in
their techniques, and one of the ways is, you know,
they evolved by creating these fake websites and they make
the domain look so close to what the real legitimate
domain is. Is that especially if you're in a hurry,
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if you've got, you know, three different things going on
and you glance at it, you know your naked eye
might not see those differences. So helping helping you identify
those really slight differences in the domain name, writing down
each character is really going to help you. Some people
have even told me what they do is they write
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everything down backwards, or they look at it backwards, they
read it to themselves backwards, and that might help you
to try that as well. So we already talked about
this toggle switch, the padlock. I I'm going to go
back to this padlock here. Cookies and site data. You
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can go in there and you can say that it
says cookies and other site data use to remember you,
for example, to sign you in or to personalize ads.
If you want to manage those cookies for all sites.
You go to your settings and they have a a if.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I click.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Just look at what your settings are and change them
as you see fit there.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Let me get back into that.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think that was it there, Yeah, that was it
on the cookies and then site settings down here you
can get into this and it's going to give you
a lot of different information like permissions for location. I've
got it set to ask, that's the default, and if
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you click here, if you say allow, then if you
go to get on a website and the website wants
to track your location, if you've got it as allow,
it's going to automatically allow it. Or you can click
block and it'll automatically block the website from tracking your location.
Or you can have ask and it'll ask you. It'll
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give you the prompt that they want to track your location,
and you can say yes or no to it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You can say allow it.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I think the choices are allow always, allow, or allow
this time only or block it. But you can go
down through all of this location, camera, microphone motion, all
kinds of stuff all down through here. And for insecure content,
(09:52):
I have block automatically block on that, so you can
change to to whatever whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You feel comfortable with.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
And this actually if you go back to all sites,
it's going to come down and it's going to give
you all these sites that you've been on recently and
how many cookies are there, and you can go down
and you can go down and get rid of all
the cookies individual ones that are here, if you understand
what all of these are, or if maybe you want
to clear cookies on some of these sites. Maybe you
(10:28):
got on a site once for some particular reason and
it's not a site that you usually go to, so
you could just go over here and hit the trash
can and it's going to delete the site data and
the permissions for it's going to delete all of it
instead of having to go down into these individual thirty
seven cookies and delete them. Or you just might want
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to get rid of everything for all of these websites again,
and these are by these are the most visited ones.
You can go down and look at the data stored
ones or by name and check all of that. Let
me see here, I think that might have been that.
That was the last thing on that. Another thing they
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say you can do to check the security and safety
of a site is kind of look down through the
homepage and and look at what they have on here.
And you know, again this was one of the older ways,
you know, check for grammatical errors, poor spelling, awkward phrasings,
all kinds of stuff like that. You go down through ours,
you're going to see there's really not you know, misspelled
(11:32):
there's not misspelled words or grammatical errors or stuff like that.
But with the advent of artificial intelligence, and part of
that is the chat GBT, and I think.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
There's co pilot, there's there's a bunch of.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
There's a bunch of generative text artificial intelligence sources, and
and so that's where this kind of ties into how
you know, previously you could tell when an email came
through or a text, or if you got something in
the mail and it just had really bad grammar, that
was your telltale sign that that was a scam. Well,
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with all these generative text websites, this artificial intelligence, scammers
are using that just like we use it, and they're
using it to create to what really looks like legitimate websites.
So you might not find that there's a lot of
grammatical errors or misspellings or you know, the awkward phrasing
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and stuff like that, because now artificial intelligence is helping
them correct of all of these errors and making the
website look a lot more legitimate. You can also contact information.
You know, we have ours all the way down here
at the bottom. We have our mailing address, our phone number,
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we have an efex. Our email is down here. You
know the copyright, who designed and is hosting the website.
We've got our disclaimer down here, so you know a
lot of you can look at those things as well.
The thing that really helps, and you know another thing
is they say to go to the Better Business Bureau,
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right because some people if they've found that it's a
you know, not a good website, it's a fraudulent website,
or maybe it's a it's a website, maybe it is
an actual company but they're just using aggressive sales tactics
to get business and stuff like that, so that they
might report them to the Better Business Bureau file a complaint.
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So you can also check them out there. But I
think these online tools that I'm going to go through
next can be very very helpful, and I'm gonna I'm
gonna type them in here and I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Going to use.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
My website Rose Advocacy to to go in and look
it up. So the first one is going to be
it's called the U R L Void dot com, so
yourelvoid dot com. You see, I've gotten into it before,
so it automatically came up and this is you'll see here.
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It's a website reputation checker. Now I did this last
week and it came up that there was everything was good,
and I've been making.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Some changes to the website.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
So I'm going to put my website name in here,
and I'm going to say scan website, and this is
going to come up and give you a bunch of
different information about the website. So you can see the
website address, Roseadvocacy dot org. They last analyzed it three
months ago. You could actually tell it to rescan again.
(14:45):
Detection counts zero out of thirty nine, so there's thirty
nine different things they're going to scan for and they
didn't find us on any of them, which is good.
And we'll go in and we'll look at some of
those places. You can look at when I registered the domain,
and our incorporation date was August twenty first of twenty
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twenty one, or August twenty third, twenty twenty one, anyways,
but you'll see here where I bought the domain August
twenty seventh, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Makes sense.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's within a week of when we actually were incorporated
in the state of Arizona.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You can see the IP address.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
You can see who our web hosting is here, the
server locations in the United States. So that's a good thing.
You can tell if it's in the United States or
if it's in another country. Not saying that if a
server is in another country that it's necessarily a bad thing,
but you can tell there. This is just a Google
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map and then a lot of personal identify viable information
and you're not going to see here. But then the
scanning engines down here, this is what I told you
up here were these zero out of thirty nine, so
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detection counts the thirty nine different. So you're gonna they
scanned all of these different engines and it says here
nothing found on all of these green check mark nothing found.
Everything's in green. Now we can go in and view
more details. So a bitdefender, let's go in there and
(16:33):
we can view more details. And it has the Rose
Advocacy website. We haven't seen any suspicious activity from this website,
so that's good.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Green check mark. All of these.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Different things will tell you when they come up with
these different icons what that means so the one of
these website may contain malware. Here the icon, the website
is classified as phishing. Here this website pretends to be
a financial institution. You can see here how it's instead
of b A n K, it's b NAK, so it's
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a fake bank website.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You can look here. Escro scam.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
They've got all these icons right, represents a Facebook scam.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
So you've got the face the f.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Reversed again hosted phishing attack in the last ninety days.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Another icon.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Was found in unsolicited email messages, and so they'll have
this email icon. So just a bunch of different things
that they're going to look for. And so now I'm
going to go back to here and I'm going to
pull up another one. See if I so look here cybercrime.
Let's go look at cybercrime view more details. And that's interesting.
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I have it says no result for Roseada becausey which
is great because I really don't want to be on
I don't want to come up on this on this
cyber crime tracker. But if a cop, if if a
website did, you're going to have a bunch of information here.
Let me go and look at another one fake website
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built buster. Let's go look at that. Oh this is interesting.
Your connection is not private and you can see up here.
So it gave me a warning says not secure here,
(18:44):
and I could go into advance to learn more, but
I don't necessarily you can still go to it, but
I want to go back to safety. So I'm just
going to go back to safety, and I'm going to
go back here and let's look up here. Let's look
up fishing database. See what comes up there. So this
(19:15):
is just a bunch of fishing domain data. Oh, this
is I think they're coming up with a bunch of
different It'll tell you if you've you've come up in
any of these fishing links. Some of these is they
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have a lot of technical uh jargon on here. So
let me see what some of these other ones are.
I haven't been into a lot of these. But the
one thing you want to look for, as I said earlier,
is right here. You don't want to be found on
any of these scanning engines or you know, if the
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website you're trying to determine if it's safe or not
and it's secure, something does come up. You can go
into these few more details and you can look and
see what this what the scanning engines said about them.
So that's one thing you can do. Another thing here
is they the domain information? You could go into this
(20:26):
who is look up and it tells you right pains
police records. Interesting, okay, but I'm going to put my
domain in there. Click that you're not a robot. Click
(20:48):
the who is look up and it's going to give
you some information about that's just an ad.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Don't worry about that. All that.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Jargon up there, But now you can get some more
information about the actual domain Roseadvocacy dot org. It's going
to give you the domain id, the server and I
purchased it at go daddy, and so that's the who
is server is at go daddy, so that makes sense.
The last time they updated it was November twenty fifth
(21:21):
of twenty four. Again, this creation date matches with what
we looked at on the previous screen for the domain
reputation that it was created on August twenty seventh, twenty
twenty one. I renew it every year, the domain, and
so right now it expires on August twenty seventh, twenty
twenty five. So sometime between now and then, I will
(21:43):
go in and I'll renew it for another year and
then that'll get updated to twenty twenty six. The registrars
GoDaddy dot com LLC. That makes sense because the server
is up here at go Daddy. You're going to get
some information about the registrar at go Daddy. If you
want to report abuse, here is how to do it
and the phone number. But then you're going to see
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this redacted down here on a lot of this information.
And that's because there years ago there was a bill
or a law enacted that said you have to really
restrict the personal identifiable information, and so they've it's not
that it's not there, it is, it's just you can't
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see it because it's been redacted.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
All this personal identifiable information.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And that's for the registrant, that's for the admin, you know,
the tech name, all of that's been redacted. So and
I recognize this here cloud Fair that's my cybersecurity, my
cybersecurity company that monitors this laptop that I use and
(22:53):
monitors everything.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That's one of the.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Softwares that they use as cloud Fare. So it makes
sense that this would come up. Let's see and it
tells you here if you want more information on status codes.
You can go to this website, so just really quickly
to give you an idea of the who is and
what data is stored. It's a public database that hosts
(23:16):
the information collected when someone registers a domain name. A
domain name is an Internet address, a website address. And
actually I could go in and type in for here
Rosadvocacy dot net instead of dot org, because I purchased
the dot net one, and you'll see the same information
(23:37):
coming up as well. Let's see here it's monitored by
the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It goes
back to nineteen eighty two. And then the bunch of
information on how to install it. And I'm not even
(24:02):
going to begin to tell you what all of this,
how to install it and all that. That's where you
need to have a really good website host person that
can go in and do all this for you. But
let me see what one of these other ones are. Oh,
(24:22):
the Google Transparency Reports. So I'm going to go into
the website here for Google Transparency Report.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oops. There it is Transparencyreport dot Google.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Dot com Safe hyphen browsing.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So I'm going to go in. Oops, don't know what
I did there?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Okay, all right, So this is Google Safe Browsing Site status.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Again.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You can go in and you can put in a
website address and no available data. That's interesting because last
time I put it in, it came up and said
that it was safe. So I'm wondering why if there's
(25:34):
something there, we go no unsafe content found. So that's
what you want to see on the website that you
put in there. You know, I can put in I
don't know. Let me put in Amazon and.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
See what happens.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I haven't done this before, so we're gonna all find
out dot com see what happens here? Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Here it is.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
So it's hard to provide a simple safety status for
sites like Amazon, which have a lot of content. Sites
that are generally safe sometimes contain some unsafe content like
blogs or comments. So it says check a specific directory
or web page. So you probably would have to go
into a specific page and find that address and put
(26:33):
that in there.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Because Amazon is huge.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
They're just they're a huge website and with all of
the orders and all the products and stuff they have.
So those are three different ways to check this Google
Safe Browsing this who is look up online where you
can find out a lot of information about the about
(26:57):
the website itself, see if everything makes sense. And then
also you can go on here again that's the URL
void and I went there first. And then for the
who is part of it, I went in and clicked
right here on the who is look up was where
I found this information about the Rose Advocacy website. And
(27:21):
you can see that everything kind of coordinates with both
of them. And then go down here and make sure
there's nothing found green check marks, nothing found on all
these thirty nine. So these are I think, I don't
want to say better, but yes you want to, you know,
look at the URL and make sure that every character
(27:44):
and there is does make up the legitimate URL. Look
at the padlock icon or this toggle icon, and go
in and check out the secure connection. You can do
the cookies, site settings, all of that stuff, and you know,
verify the contact information that that looks legitimate and all that.
(28:06):
But to take it to the next step to verify
the security. You know, if you want to bypass all
this that we talked about here, looking at the security connection,
the cookies, all of that stuff, looking for the at
the content, looking at reviews, things like that, go straight
to the online tools, or you can do all of them,
(28:27):
but the online tools here and this one, and then
the safe brows Google safe browsing. These are just added
ways that because scammers evolve, right and we talked about
that earlier about how they can it's it's inexpensive to
bio domain and then to buy the security certificate for it,
so they can do that with a fake website and
(28:48):
it's going to come up and say the connection secure
and all of that stuff. And so if you take
these added steps to go in and see if anything
comes up in these detection counts where they've found anything,
you know, with recent scans, it's.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
A it's a good thing to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
It doesn't take that long, and it's just some added
steps to determine the safety and security of a website.
But then don't forget to when you're looking at the
up here, the domain, the ur L here. Some people
actually look at this and they read it backwards to
see that make sense, or they write down the letters backwards.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You know.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Some people they say that helps them. Other people they
want to write down each individual character. So they're going
to look at it and go, okay, that's an r
that's an O, that's an S, that's an E, and
go through and write it down and then look at
each character to see that yes, then it does make
sense because there could be just a very very slight
(29:54):
difference in this URL that would then take you to
a not secure, possibly a scammer's website because your naked
eyes reading Rose Advocacy, because that's what your mind's looking for,
and you might not see those little nuances. So looking
at each individual character. And one of the examples I
(30:17):
give in the presentations is and I'm not picking on Amazon,
but it's scammers love to impersonate Amazon. They're a huge,
reputable company. Almost everybody has an Amazon account, whether they
use it once in a while on a regular basis,
or set up the account and have never used it,
they have an account. And so scammers know that when
(30:39):
they send these phishing emails or these schmishing texts out
to try to get you to call the number, click
on the link you to engage with them, they know
that they're going to have a higher chance of getting
more people to engage with them because there's so many
(31:01):
people that have Amazon accounts. So the example that I
give with that is you know the Amazon website is
a M, A Z O N.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
But you know what if it's.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
A R N and so the R and the N
instead of the M, are you going to notice that
little difference there with Is your naked eye going to
see that that's an R and an N rs and
Robert N is in Nancy versus the M as in Mary.
It might not because to your naked eye, your mind's
(31:32):
thinking Amazon. You might read Amazon. So that's where it's
good to write down the individual characters. You'd be more
apt to see that that is an R and an
N and and.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Not the M like it should be.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Some There's another thing when you're when you're browsing on
the on the internet is there's what's called incognito mode,
and you can so your browser. Let's see here it
says for to open a new incognito window in UH
(32:14):
you press control shift and as in Nancy, And that's
on a that is on the anything but a Mac,
and you would use command instead of control, so it'd
be command shift and is in Nancy on a Mac,
(32:36):
and it opens up a new incognito window in Chrome,
or you can go to the browser menu in Chrome
or Firefox and I believe that's over here, these three
right here, Yeah, these three.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I'm in Chrome.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
So these three dots over here on the far right
that ask if you want a new tab, a new window.
Here's a new INC window. There's a bunch of other
things down here as well. But and that's where it's
the I have a mac here, So it's a control
or no, I'm sorry, it's the command shift and then end.
But if you just click here, it then opens up
(33:15):
you've gone in cognito, and so it tells you what
that is. Others who use this device won't see your activity,
so you can browse more privately. One of the a
reason why you might want to do this is if
you know, you and your spouse or you and the
kids share a device, and you're planning a surprise party,
(33:38):
or it's you know, a celebration is coming up and
you want to get them a gift, and you don't
necessarily want them to see what you've been searching for
the gift or planning the party. Then you could do
it in cognito modes. So then whoever your child, your partner,
your spouse goes to get on your device after you
(33:59):
were they won't be able to see what you've been browsing,
and so it also says this won't change how the
data is collected by the website you visit and the
services they use, you know, including Google downloads, bookmarks, and
reading item list items that'll all still be saved. But
Chrome won't save your browsing history. It won't save cookies
(34:22):
and site data and information entered in forms. But your
activity might still be visible to the websites that you visit,
your employer, school, if you have, you know, your internet
service provider, So do you have a work computer or
you're a student and have a computer given to you
(34:43):
through the school, They very well could have protocols on
those computers where they can see your activity. You can
also block third party cookies when on the sites can't
use cookies that track you across the web, so you
can that's turned off there, I had it turned on,
(35:07):
and so that that's another way.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Again.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
The one big difference with incognito, you know we talked about.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Is and I want to find it on here.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
That you don't need to worry about clear clearing your
history or your cash or your cookies because the private
browsing modes don't save your browsing history, your cashed pages,
or cookies, so there's nothing to delete.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
So if you are one that.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Is on a regular basis going in and deleting your cookies,
for instance, this is a way where the cookies won't
get tracked. And so then you don't need to go
in and delete the cookies because they're they're not tracking them.
And sometimes I know when I'll go to get on
(36:02):
like my website, after my website guy host website developer
has made changes, like, for instance, he just made a
bunch of changes last week on the website.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
But sometimes I'll go in and I'll look.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
At things to see what it looks like, how the
changes got made and things like that, and it won't
read correctly or it just looks weird, And so I'll
send a note to the website guy and say, hey,
I take a screenshot.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This is what comes up, and this is weird.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
It's not supposed to do this, and he'll say, have
you cleaned have you cleared out your cash recent recently? Sorry,
have you cleared out your cash recently? And that's the cacche.
And so if you are browsing incognito and stuff it
doesn't track and it doesn't keep the cash, so then
you don't have to go in and clear it out,
(36:59):
but it can if you don't clear that out on
a regular basis, it can kind of change a little
bit on what you're seeing, or it might make a
website that you're usually on do something different that's not
what you're used to. And that's about all I can
get into on that aspect of it, because I don't
(37:24):
really I'm not a techie person that knows exactly what
all the cash is.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
So just remember that on how to get in and.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Go to an incognito window and it'll say incognito up
here as well. You just click on. If you're on Chrome,
you can just click on these three dots and go
into a new incognito window. There this says you're incognito.
You could close this profile right here and it's going
to close that page take me back to where I
was before. But if you're on a Mac, you can
(37:59):
just hit commands shift and as in Nancy. Any any
other device, you're going to do the control shift and
then and as in Nancy. So hopefully this helped you,
especially being able to see what I was doing to
check the safety and security of websites as I was
in real time, as I was doing it with the
Rose Advocacy website. This is what you were supposed to
(38:21):
have seen last week. But like I said, I made
the mistake of not sharing whole the whole page. I
clicked on just this one tab and it happened to
be the PDF tab that had my notes up on there.
So apologize for that. But the nice thing is we
get to do take two and that's what today is.
(38:44):
So thank you for joining us today. And if you
don't remember, you can get on Rose's website and you
can find a bunch of resources on this tab here.
You can if you're interested in scheduling a presentation and
it's on this tab. Donator or sponsors here. We have
events throughout the year. You can find them here. Latest
(39:07):
scams if you go on here, this is going to
have it's going to have some latest scams. But you
can download our Anatomy of a Scam infographic. It also
has the IC three, the Internet Crime Complaints Center, the
FBI's Fraud Report here for twenty twenty four. This is
(39:31):
just some We talked about this a couple of weeks
ago on the radio show. But here's the graph that
we referenced. If you want to find previous let's see
downloadable resources. I think it's here the previous FBI's elder
fraud reports. You can see them here all the way
back to two thousand and twenty. And it looks like
(39:55):
twenty twenty might have gotten on there twice so or no,
them needs to be twenty two.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
This should say twenty two.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
So anyways, there's just a bunch of different things, downloadable
things here that you can go in and look at.
And again you can go down to the bottom of
the page and there's archives, a lot of articles and
videos from years back from some curated sources, reliable sources
where we found some information.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
And go back to the homepage.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Here you can find our social media links all right here, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube,
they're at the bottom. Or here's some testimonials. We've got
about twenty one of them up here. If you want
to see John and say, retired FBI agent, you can
play his video. And here's how to sign up for
(40:44):
our emailed list. Sign up for our monthly mailed newsletters.
What those are and again the social media links are here. Yeah,
so there you go, and we look forward to seeing
you back next week.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Well that's all the knowledge for this episode. Tune in
every Tuesday at eight am Pacific time on KFOURHD Radio
at KFORHD dot com as Joyce explores a variety of knowledge.
So you have the power to make scam protection your
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