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Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. And a shout out to those people listening on the weekend. May be this morning as well. Man. This was great this morning with Mr. Jim Polito. I think we were both on the ball, with exactly what he's been talking about all morning. I love listening to his show. When I'm not listening to podcasts or working, right, that's kind of my life lately. But here's what we talked about the whole deep fake thing. Some, I think, major surprises, at least for Jim, what's going to happen. Do you know what an October surprise is? Well, it's October 1, we're not going to have an October surprise this year. But we will next year. I've been following this deep fake pioneer, Hao Li and what he had to say is this. This is scary. I even went into President Obama's birth certificate when you're talking about deep fakes. So, we'll tie this all together. Listen in, I think you are going to really enjoy this. Here we go.

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Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. And a shout out to those people listening on the weekend and maybe this morning as well. Man. This was great this morning with Mr. Jim Polito. I think we were both on the ball, with exactly what he's been talking about all morning. I love listening to the show. When I'm not listening to podcasts or working, right, that's kind of my life lately. But here's what we talked about the whole deep fake thing. Some, I think, major surprises, at least for Jim, what's going to happen. Do you know what an October surprise is? Well, it's October 1, we're not going to have an October surprise this year. But we will next year. I've been following this deep fake pioneer, Has Li and what he had to say is this. This is scary. I even went into President Obama's birth certificate when you're talking about deep fakes. So, we'll tie this all together. Listen in, I think you are going to really enjoy this. Here we go.

Jim Polito 1:04
Here he is. Our good friend from the great white north. But you know, he's from the great, the great cloud. He's kind of like he lives in the cloud. I'm talking about our tech talk guru. And all around great guy, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson 1:26
Hey, good morning.

Jim Polito 1:29
Good to talk with you today. This topic when I when you sent me this. I said this is important. And they're the deep fakes. This is the ability to manipulate video. And images like Hollywood does now. You know, in movies, you know, to make it look like Robert Downey Jr. is actually wearing an outfit you're in the suit and can fly. But the technology in the ability to do that could be in the hands of everyday people. And that I think is a problem. A big, big problem that people don't understand it's going to go beyond just folks making their own little funny movies. But These things could create war, and cause people to be harmed, cause people to be slandered and libeled when they didn't do anything. Don't you agree?

Craig Peterson2:42
Yeah. And then they've been proven right after the fact. This is really a major, major game changer. There is a researcher down at MIT at a conference and he said he thought deep fake sort of arriving in the next two to three years this was about a year ago, as I recall. And I want to try and what you're just saying to just real life. Toy Story came out recently. I don't know if you saw that your kids a little old? No,

Jim Polito 3:15
I didn't. But they loved the earlier movies. Yeah. They did

Craig Peterson 3:20
So let's just use toy stories. Example then. Toy Story for just came out. And compare that to the original Toy Story, which was about 20 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. And technology for Toy Story cost 10s of millions of dollars, just the technology to do that animation. But a couple of decades ago, today, you could make Toy Story easily on your smartphone. Yeah. And the software you'd have to buy is like a few bucks. Right now, if you even bothered with that. This Christmas. I think it is Carrie Fisher going to start in the new Star Wars. Right? Well, She's gonna be in it. But and she's dead.

Jim Polito 4:09
For about two years.

Craig Peterson4:13
Yeah, very troubled. That poor lady. Especially towards the end. Now, Carrie Fisher in Star Wars The last time was kinda cruddy if you saw it, right. But we have seen this in movies now where they're taking an actor, and they're making them younger. In fact, with Harrison Ford, what they did to make him look younger, is they use some of his videos his movies from 20 3040 years ago, right? Some of those were ago. And what they're able to do is use those videos, those old movies and a sample of them. So now I want to have your thing for a minute about who the most videotaped people are obviously actors, some of these actors around a while, yeah, I suspect that they will be with us for the next 50 years. Because frankly, they have plenty of samples from prior movies. And they're going to be able to use those samples and throw those faces. Initially, they're going to put the faces on to other actors that are up there. So they'll get somebody that's a close enough fit to present Harrison Ford or Carrie Fisher. And they'll use all of this old video they have of them, and they'll just paste to the face on to those other bodies. So that's kind of step one. That's where we're at today. Today, already, you can do a pretty darn convincing job with just a home computer. Yeah, in making one of these deep fakes to just talking about,

Jim Polito 5:51
You know, and the least of people's worries would be I think this would be the least of their way that somebody would take your image and put you into an adult movie if you know what I mean. And then spread that around the internet and say, Oh, look, what we got here is just, you know, we got Jim to embarrass somebody, that would actually be the least of the worries, what if somebody took a video and made it look like Donald Trump was burning copies of the Quran? Okay, that he had a pile of them on the White House lawn, and he was throwing in copies of the Quran before anybody could say that's fake. Because it's, even though you have this technology, people in the know, know how to determine whether or not something is real.

Craig Peterson 6:45
It would be too late wouldn't it? You know, goes back to the basics of law. How do you prove a negative right court? Right? how, you know, and that's what we're facing right now. Obviously, President Trump and this whole thing you are talking about earlier this morning? There are issues there. But again, how do you prove this negative in court?

Now, this big tech pioneer, his name is Has Li. He was on CNBC on Friday. And he was saying that perfectly real, deep fake video technology is going to be accessible to everyday people in about six months. Now, we've already seen online disinformation spread through targeted social media campaigns, as well as through apps like WhatsApp. And it is already messed up elections around the world this information, the great article and in foreign policy, talking about what tap and how from India through Indonesia, Brazil, these one tap and these other online social media sites have already ready been messing with their elections. And these politicians have been using it to gain an advantage. So let's put all of this into a mixing bowl and stirred up what is heading our way soon. For instance, our neighbors to the north of New Hampshire are going to be having a primary election. I think it's February next year. We have one in more than six months from now, our then our general election coming up. And it's obviously going to be President Trump versus somebody on the other side and make you feel well to get his hat in etc, etc. Those time frames make it, Jim. So that we, first of all, we already know that social media has been used to manipulate people we already know deep takes a possible today and this researcher saying hey, six months from now, these things are going to be perfectly real. Yeah, they probably on deep x inspection can be examined closely and found to be deep fakes. Okay, that time that's true right now. How what's going to happen to put this all into a bowl? You know, I was talking just yesterday about something similar. I don't know the reason this was done. But let's go back to President Obama. You remember this whole thing about his birth certificate? Yeah. And was he born in the United States is even eligible to be president. And then he posted his birth certificate on the White House website. Yeah, I downloaded his birth certificate. And Jim, it was done by a sixth grader. It was obviously fake, obviously fake. And until the question, but why? Why did they do this? Did they create an obviously fake birth certificate for President Obama to just keep the narrative going, going to distract everyone? Why did they post that on the White House website? It was Kim, it was so obviously fake, anybody that uses Photoshop and the pastor illustrator, we go in there, the layers are still there, the software layers are still there, and the birth certificate. If you look at the edges of the characters, obviously, these were made on a typewriter and scanned, and the serial number was obviously put in by illustrator, Adobe Illustrator. So why was that fake? Obviously, fake birth-certificate put up on the White House website? Yeah. And now we, we look at the deep fake. And my mind is blown. That was just so simple. It was so simple. anybody looking at it would say, yeah, this is obviously a fake, right? Well, anyone that knows anything about technology, this is obviously it was fake, like gonna happen in six months to a year from now. Every every major presidential cycle every four years, we have something called an October surprise. Today is October 1. What's going to happen when someone releases enough? October surprise, yeah, that is a deep fake. Whether it's obvious or not, what's gonna happen?

Jim Polito 11:20
Yeah, because it What, what did? What did the Mark Twain say? A lie is traveled around the world before the truth is even woken up, you know, or gotten breakfast, or something like that. But yeah, it's absolutely true. This is fascinating. And I know Glenn Beck has talked about it in the past, and said, it's coming. While it's no longer it's coming, as Craig is telling us, it's here. So Craig, how do folks get this information? And then other information about all of this stuff? Bye. You know what? texting my name to this number?

Craig Peterson 12:06
Sure, that'll work at 855-385-5553. So just text Jim, just the word Jim, on your phone. to 855 385 8553. And I'll keep you up to date,

Jim Polito 12:21
Standard data and text rates apply. Craig Peterson will not take your image and insert you into some type of compromising video. He's done it to me, but he won't do it, too. Yeah. Yeah. Standard data and text rates apply. Craig This was fascinating. Always a pleasure, sir.

Craig Peterson 12:46
Thank you. Take care, Jim. Take care.

Jim Polito 12:48
All right, when we return a final word, don't go anywhere you're listening to the gym.

Craig Peterson 12:52
So what did you guys think of that? Is that something that that you like that kind of deep analysis and I try and do that on my weekend radio shows and we've been putting them up as podcasts we're going to continue doing that. But let me know what you get out about it, what you got out of it, what you think about it, how it applies to you and you know, your business people. Obviously, those are the ones that I am going to be able to hopefully pick a few up his clients so that I can keep my lights on and keep doing this. So if you're a business person, please take a minute to reach out to me if you don't, that's okay. If you're a home user, retiree, etc. Great. I am so glad to help you as well. But you can always reach me with anything at me at Craig Peterson.com Take Care of your body, my mind

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Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. And a shout out to those people listening on the weekend. May be this morning as well. Man. This was great this morning with Mr. Jim Polito. I think we were both on the ball, with exactly what he's been talking about all morning. I love listening to his show. When I'm not listening to podcasts or working, right, that's kind of my life lately. But here's what we talked about the whole deep fake thing. Some, I think, major surprises, at least for Jim, what's going to happen. Do you know what an October surprise is? Well, it's October 1, we're not going to have an October surprise this year. But we will next year. I've been following this deep fake pioneer, Hao Li and what he had to say is this. This is scary. I even went into President Obama's birth certificate when you're talking about deep fakes. So, we'll tie this all together. Listen in, I think you are going to really enjoy this. Here we go.

I am putting together some courses for everyone to help them sort out all their cybersecurity issues.  While I share quite a bit for free -- I do charge for some of my courses.  Good thing for you -- if you sign up on my list you will get special offers of up to 50% off.  So keep an ear out for the announcement of these courses.  

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Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. And a shout out to those people listening on the weekend and maybe this morning as well. Man. This was great this morning with Mr. Jim Polito. I think we were both on the ball, with exactly what he's been talking about all morning. I love listening to the show. When I'm not listening to podcasts or working, right, that's kind of my life lately. But here's what we talked about the whole deep fake thing. Some, I think, major surprises, at least for Jim, what's going to happen. Do you know what an October surprise is? Well, it's October 1, we're not going to have an October surprise this year. But we will next year. I've been following this deep fake pioneer, Has Li and what he had to say is this. This is scary. I even went into President Obama's birth certificate when you're talking about deep fakes. So, we'll tie this all together. Listen in, I think you are going to really enjoy this. Here we go.

Jim Polito 1:04
Here he is. Our good friend from the great white north. But you know, he's from the great, the great cloud. He's kind of like he lives in the cloud. I'm talking about our tech talk guru. And all around great guy, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson 1:26
Hey, good morning.

Jim Polito 1:29
Good to talk with you today. This topic when I when you sent me this. I said this is important. And they're the deep fakes. This is the ability to manipulate video. And images like Hollywood does now. You know, in movies, you know, to make it look like Robert Downey Jr. is actually wearing an outfit you're in the suit and can fly. But the technology in the ability to do that could be in the hands of everyday people. And that I think is a problem. A big, big problem that people don't understand it's going to go beyond just folks making their own little funny movies. But These things could create war, and cause people to be harmed, cause people to be slandered and libeled when they didn't do anything. Don't you agree?

Craig Peterson2:42
Yeah. And then they've been proven right after the fact. This is really a major, major game changer. There is a researcher down at MIT at a conference and he said he thought deep fake sort of arriving in the next two to three years this was about a year ago, as I recall. And I want to try and what you're just saying to just real life. Toy Story came out recently. I don't know if you saw that your kids a little old? No,

Jim Polito 3:15
I didn't. But they loved the earlier movies. Yeah. They did

Craig Peterson 3:20
So let's just use toy stories. Example then. Toy Story for just came out. And compare that to the original Toy Story, which was about 20 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. And technology for Toy Story cost 10s of millions of dollars, just the technology to do that animation. But a couple of decades ago, today, you could make Toy Story easily on your smartphone. Yeah. And the software you'd have to buy is like a few bucks. Right now, if you even bothered with that. This Christmas. I think it is Carrie Fisher going to start in the new Star Wars. Right? Well, She's gonna be in it. But and she's dead.

Jim Polito 4:09
For about two years.

Craig Peterson4:13
Yeah, very troubled. That poor lady. Especially towards the end. Now, Carrie Fisher in Star Wars The last time was kinda cruddy if you saw it, right. But we have seen this in movies now where they're taking an actor, and they're making them younger. In fact, with Harrison Ford, what they did to make him look younger, is they use some of his videos his movies from 20 3040 years ago, right? Some of those were ago. And what they're able to do is use those videos, those old movies and a sample of them. So now I want to have your thing for a minute about who the most videotaped people are obviously actors, some of these actors around a while, yeah, I suspect that they will be with us for the next 50 years. Because frankly, they have plenty of samples from prior movies. And they're going to be able to use those samples and throw those faces. Initially, they're going to put the faces on to other actors that are up there. So they'll get somebody that's a close enough fit to present Harrison Ford or Carrie Fisher. And they'll use all of this old video they have of them, and they'll just paste to the face on to those other bodies. So that's kind of step one. That's where we're at today. Today, already, you can do a pretty darn convincing job with just a home computer. Yeah, in making one of these deep fakes to just talking about,

Jim Polito 5:51
You know, and the least of people's worries would be I think this would be the least of their way that somebody would take your image and put you into an adult movie if you know what I mean. And then spread that around the internet and say, Oh, look, what we got here is just, you know, we got Jim to embarrass somebody, that would actually be the least of the worries, what if somebody took a video and made it look like Donald Trump was burning copies of the Quran? Okay, that he had a pile of them on the White House lawn, and he was throwing in copies of the Quran before anybody could say that's fake. Because it's, even though you have this technology, people in the know, know how to determine whether or not something is real.

Craig Peterson 6:45
It would be too late wouldn't it? You know, goes back to the basics of law. How do you prove a negative right court? Right? how, you know, and that's what we're facing right now. Obviously, President Trump and this whole thing you are talking about earlier this morning? There are issues there. But again, how do you prove this negative in court?

Now, this big tech pioneer, his name is Has Li. He was on CNBC on Friday. And he was saying that perfectly real, deep fake video technology is going to be accessible to everyday people in about six months. Now, we've already seen online disinformation spread through targeted social media campaigns, as well as through apps like WhatsApp. And it is already messed up elections around the world this information, the great article and in foreign policy, talking about what tap and how from India through Indonesia, Brazil, these one tap and these other online social media sites have already ready been messing with their elections. And these politicians have been using it to gain an advantage. So let's put all of this into a mixing bowl and stirred up what is heading our way soon. For instance, our neighbors to the north of New Hampshire are going to be having a primary election. I think it's February next year. We have one in more than six months from now, our then our general election coming up. And it's obviously going to be President Trump versus somebody on the other side and make you feel well to get his hat in etc, etc. Those time frames make it, Jim. So that we, first of all, we already know that social media has been used to manipulate people we already know deep takes a possible today and this researcher saying hey, six months from now, these things are going to be perfectly real. Yeah, they probably on deep x inspection can be examined closely and found to be deep fakes. Okay, that time that's true right now. How what's going to happen to put this all into a bowl? You know, I was talking just yesterday about something similar. I don't know the reason this was done. But let's go back to President Obama. You remember this whole thing about his birth certificate? Yeah. And was he born in the United States is even eligible to be president. And then he posted his birth certificate on the White House website. Yeah, I downloaded his birth certificate. And Jim, it was done by a sixth grader. It was obviously fake, obviously fake. And until the question, but why? Why did they do this? Did they create an obviously fake birth certificate for President Obama to just keep the narrative going, going to distract everyone? Why did they post that on the White House website? It was Kim, it was so obviously fake, anybody that uses Photoshop and the pastor illustrator, we go in there, the layers are still there, the software layers are still there, and the birth certificate. If you look at the edges of the characters, obviously, these were made on a typewriter and scanned, and the serial number was obviously put in by illustrator, Adobe Illustrator. So why was that fake? Obviously, fake birth-certificate put up on the White House website? Yeah. And now we, we look at the deep fake. And my mind is blown. That was just so simple. It was so simple. anybody looking at it would say, yeah, this is obviously a fake, right? Well, anyone that knows anything about technology, this is obviously it was fake, like gonna happen in six months to a year from now. Every every major presidential cycle every four years, we have something called an October surprise. Today is October 1. What's going to happen when someone releases enough? October surprise, yeah, that is a deep fake. Whether it's obvious or not, what's gonna happen?

Jim Polito 11:20
Yeah, because it What, what did? What did the Mark Twain say? A lie is traveled around the world before the truth is even woken up, you know, or gotten breakfast, or something like that. But yeah, it's absolutely true. This is fascinating. And I know Glenn Beck has talked about it in the past, and said, it's coming. While it's no longer it's coming, as Craig is telling us, it's here. So Craig, how do folks get this information? And then other information about all of this stuff? Bye. You know what? texting my name to this number?

Craig Peterson 12:06
Sure, that'll work at 855-385-5553. So just text Jim, just the word Jim, on your phone. to 855 385 8553. And I'll keep you up to date,

Jim Polito 12:21
Standard data and text rates apply. Craig Peterson will not take your image and insert you into some type of compromising video. He's done it to me, but he won't do it, too. Yeah. Yeah. Standard data and text rates apply. Craig This was fascinating. Always a pleasure, sir.

Craig Peterson 12:46
Thank you. Take care, Jim. Take care.

Jim Polito 12:48
All right, when we return a final word, don't go anywhere you're listening to the gym.

Craig Peterson 12:52
So what did you guys think of that? Is that something that that you like that kind of deep analysis and I try and do that on my weekend radio shows and we've been putting them up as podcasts we're going to continue doing that. But let me know what you get out about it, what you got out of it, what you think about it, how it applies to you and you know, your business people. Obviously, those are the ones that I am going to be able to hopefully pick a few up his clients so that I can keep my lights on and keep doing this. So if you're a business person, please take a minute to reach out to me if you don't, that's okay. If you're a home user, retiree, etc. Great. I am so glad to help you as well. But you can always reach me with anything at me at Craig Peterson.com Take Care of your body, my mind

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Hey, I had some fun with Jack this morning. Usually, it's a fairly short segment with Jack Heath on New Hampshire today. His show is carried throughout the state of New Hampshire on a number of different stations and of course in parts of Mass, Maine, and Vermont. You know, we got kind of a number of small states up here in the northeast. I talked about two big scams that are going on right now. So here we go with Jack Heath.

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Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had fun with jack this morning. Usually, it's a fairly short segment with Mr. Jack Heath. On New Hampshire today. It's carried throughout the state of New Hampshire bunch of different stations as heard. And of course in parts of mass and Maine and Vermont. You know, we got kind of small states up here in the northeast. And I talked about two big scams that are going on right now.

Jack Heath 0:29
But joining us down the auto fair listener lines on this Monday morning, 30 days into September, thank you for starting it with us. We appreciate it very, very much. We know you have some choices. And thank you for flying with us. Craig Peters on our tech talk guy and Craig. Veterans scams or something I always try and pay attention to our friends at AARP has talked about this, how veterans are sometimes targeted. But sometimes some fake sites can sort of lower veterans in telling us about the great public service here you have and what you've discovered.

Craig Peterson 0:56
Absolutely, jack, good morning, we've got vision another about a topic you talk a lot about, and that has to do with elderly victims. But in this case, there is a group out there. But this is a group that backs me and my business. I've called Cisco Telos, they found a website that there tends to be an organization called higher military heroes. What happens when you go to the site is it offers a download of program that it says that veterans can use to get job opportunities, and they've done a good job on this program on the site, the site is down. Now it is not up online. But it does offer software for all of your major versions of Windows. And unfortunately, this is another example of software that is malware that is not detected by most antivirus packages. In fact, they tested it against 69 different pieces of antivirus software, only three of them caught it. And jack this software that supposed to be helping our veterans actually installed to malware infections, one that gathers information about the veteran and their computer and another that executes commands remotely. They're given to the computer by the hackers. It's a shame to see stuff like this. And it's all part of what the hackers the bad guys are trying to do now to kind of Spearfish, in this case, our veterans.

Jack Heath 2:24
Yeah. And, you know, it's, uh, there's so much of this, Craig, there's so much of it. And it's just so hard to know how you really get to keep your guard up, don't you?

Craig Peterson 2:35
Oh, you do and that kind of leads us into our next one, which is an arrest of it just happened. And this is a massive it, you know, information technology and computer support fraud. And my dad fell for this now. My dad is no slouch when it comes to technology. And this You certainly wasn't. Now he's in his 80s. But he was the guy that the family members went to to get help with their computers to reinstall replace drives, download drivers, he new computers, and he fell for a scam that, again, he was trying to get tech support. He did a search on Google, he found a company that supports windows, he called them up. And they started installing almost right away. One of these pieces of nasty were now in this case with the arrest. Apparently, these bad guys father defrauded more than 7500 victims. And they convinced that these poor people elderly and almost all of the cases that their computers needed 16 they had a pop up that would come up on the computers as a fake warning installed, drive by on a website. That's all that they had to do these poor people. And this indictment that was released on Wednesday said a phone number would be provided the victim would call it an order to get rid of this infection that was on their computers. And you know what, unfortunately, these guys these two people are legends have made $10 million from these thousands of elderly victims. Yeah. And it can happen to people that should know better. Right?

Jack Heath 4:17
And you know, it doesn't take much because they don't need that many to fall victim in, you know, even if like, you know, the less than 5% that it's worth it to them as the crooks you know, Craig, while you were talking about that elderly one Craig Peters on Tech Talk Craig Peterson with an ON calm if you want to contact and learn more what Craig does, Craig you know, the Have you heard this the other day, but good police work led to at least cracking into that that IRS scam, if you heard about that one, when someone leave you a voice message, usually a female voice it if you didn't contact the IRS back and some field agent within you know a certain amount of time they would take criminal action and on the way to arrest you and call back with your attorney and you basically had this this should be the tip you had but you know you can kind of get out of it with a 20 $500 gift card or something else. I we obviously the IRS doesn't work that way. So somehow gift cards were involved in the scam and police are tracking where they were using in the area of Los Angeles in this neighborhood that the bad people were you know, going to one particular target to cash it in the gift cards. And they were able to kind of find out where the call center was and busted this 25 year old woman they had one at over a million dollars worth of basically computer call equipment that they were doing this robo call operation out of pretty funny, not funny real I did.

Craig Peterson 5:37
And this happened to me Jack that I was on in fact after the trade show. And my phone rang and I answered the phone call. And it was a lady that had no discernible accent. It was definitely an American that I was talking to saying that she was calling from the IRS and that there has been a problem with my tax Three's Company fun. And I kind of thought what what what's going on here? and you have all

Jack Heath 6:07
And you of all people right Mr. Like on guard and you get a call like that. Now imagine being living alone not being as up to date and how nerve-wracking that would be. Now, of course, folks out there, the IRS doesn't call you they don't call. But you don't get the call. You think it's real,

Craig Peterson 6:24
But you see, I knew I knew better. Right? And so I hung up and I just thought oh my gosh, what is really the IRS? What if there's really a problem? You know, am I really gonna get in trouble. And I knew better jack.

Jack Heath 6:40
Yeah, they're good.

Jason McIssac 6:42
What I tried to do is when I figured out it's a scam, I try to stay on the phone with them as long as possible, almost fun and mess with them. Yeah, because I figure if I'm taking up their time, that's less time they have to actually scam somebody, right?

Craig Peterson 6:53
And you know what else, you do is you basically turn it around and start asking them questions. So, if it's live - you can say, Oh, yeah, you say how many years you've been working with the IRS? And they might say they'll stick to their script. they'll stick to their script. And then you'll say, who's your field? Director, your supervisor, what Ira CY at what IRS office? You out of? Right? You ask him enough questions after a while you know you're here.

Jack Heath 7:22
Oh, Justin wouldn't love this.

Craig Peterson 6:53
I don't know if you guys saw this. But there was a captain and Stevens and she's with the apex Police Department down in North Carolina. And it was about a month ago she took a call from a man who identified himself as officer john black. And they were coming by to arrest Captain Stevens in about a 20 minutes if she didn't send the money. And Justin she does exactly what you were talking about. She messes with scammers she kept them on the phone. And there she is videotaping this whole thing. And she's in full uniform, you know her captain's uniform on and you know, you could go either way on this, but I like your approach. Justin, don't know my gut was turning over and I'm I didn't you know, she called back like three or four times. I just kept hanging up on her.

Jack Heath 8:10
But maybe that's the way to handle it. Yeah, just just just busting my chops. All right. Thank you, Craig Peterson, thank you very much on this Monday morning when we come back. General Motors.

Craig Peterson 8:19
By the way, if you are not on my email list, make sure you drop me a line. I send out great information I get so much good feedback. I so appreciate that. You guys, I really love you. And in what you're doing here for what I'm doing is I'm trying to get this information out to everybody, right? So you will get my weekly show notes is usually six to eight different articles that I have selected from the thousands that I've reviewed every week that I think are important to you as a business person, business owners, as well as home users, retirees, just like we did with that segment with jack. And then I also have free classes that I make sure I let you know about and some paid ones as well. So sign up right now at Craig Peterson, calm. Hey, have a great day and we'll be back on the morrow. Bye bye

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Hey, I had some fun with Jack this morning. Usually, it's a fairly short segment with Jack Heath on New Hampshire today. His show is carried throughout the state of New Hampshire on a number of different stations and of course in parts of Mass, Maine, and Vermont. You know, we got kind of a number of small states up here in the northeast. I talked about two big scams that are going on right now. So here we go with Jack Heath.

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Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had fun with jack this morning. Usually, it's a fairly short segment with Mr. Jack Heath. On New Hampshire today. It's carried throughout the state of New Hampshire bunch of different stations as heard. And of course in parts of mass and Maine and Vermont. You know, we got kind of small states up here in the northeast. And I talked about two big scams that are going on right now.

Jack Heath 0:29
But joining us down the auto fair listener lines on this Monday morning, 30 days into September, thank you for starting it with us. We appreciate it very, very much. We know you have some choices. And thank you for flying with us. Craig Peters on our tech talk guy and Craig. Veterans scams or something I always try and pay attention to our friends at AARP has talked about this, how veterans are sometimes targeted. But sometimes some fake sites can sort of lower veterans in telling us about the great public service here you have and what you've discovered.

Craig Peterson 0:56
Absolutely, jack, good morning, we've got vision another about a topic you talk a lot about, and that has to do with elderly victims. But in this case, there is a group out there. But this is a group that backs me and my business. I've called Cisco Telos, they found a website that there tends to be an organization called higher military heroes. What happens when you go to the site is it offers a download of program that it says that veterans can use to get job opportunities, and they've done a good job on this program on the site, the site is down. Now it is not up online. But it does offer software for all of your major versions of Windows. And unfortunately, this is another example of software that is malware that is not detected by most antivirus packages. In fact, they tested it against 69 different pieces of antivirus software, only three of them caught it. And jack this software that supposed to be helping our veterans actually installed to malware infections, one that gathers information about the veteran and their computer and another that executes commands remotely. They're given to the computer by the hackers. It's a shame to see stuff like this. And it's all part of what the hackers the bad guys are trying to do now to kind of Spearfish, in this case, our veterans.

Jack Heath 2:24
Yeah. And, you know, it's, uh, there's so much of this, Craig, there's so much of it. And it's just so hard to know how you really get to keep your guard up, don't you?

Craig Peterson 2:35
Oh, you do and that kind of leads us into our next one, which is an arrest of it just happened. And this is a massive it, you know, information technology and computer support fraud. And my dad fell for this now. My dad is no slouch when it comes to technology. And this You certainly wasn't. Now he's in his 80s. But he was the guy that the family members went to to get help with their computers to reinstall replace drives, download drivers, he new computers, and he fell for a scam that, again, he was trying to get tech support. He did a search on Google, he found a company that supports windows, he called them up. And they started installing almost right away. One of these pieces of nasty were now in this case with the arrest. Apparently, these bad guys father defrauded more than 7500 victims. And they convinced that these poor people elderly and almost all of the cases that their computers needed 16 they had a pop up that would come up on the computers as a fake warning installed, drive by on a website. That's all that they had to do these poor people. And this indictment that was released on Wednesday said a phone number would be provided the victim would call it an order to get rid of this infection that was on their computers. And you know what, unfortunately, these guys these two people are legends have made $10 million from these thousands of elderly victims. Yeah. And it can happen to people that should know better. Right?

Jack Heath 4:17
And you know, it doesn't take much because they don't need that many to fall victim in, you know, even if like, you know, the less than 5% that it's worth it to them as the crooks you know, Craig, while you were talking about that elderly one Craig Peters on Tech Talk Craig Peterson with an ON calm if you want to contact and learn more what Craig does, Craig you know, the Have you heard this the other day, but good police work led to at least cracking into that that IRS scam, if you heard about that one, when someone leave you a voice message, usually a female voice it if you didn't contact the IRS back and some field agent within you know a certain amount of time they would take criminal action and on the way to arrest you and call back with your attorney and you basically had this this should be the tip you had but you know you can kind of get out of it with a 20 $500 gift card or something else. I we obviously the IRS doesn't work that way. So somehow gift cards were involved in the scam and police are tracking where they were using in the area of Los Angeles in this neighborhood that the bad people were you know, going to one particular target to cash it in the gift cards. And they were able to kind of find out where the call center was and busted this 25 year old woman they had one at over a million dollars worth of basically computer call equipment that they were doing this robo call operation out of pretty funny, not funny real I did.

Craig Peterson 5:37
And this happened to me Jack that I was on in fact after the trade show. And my phone rang and I answered the phone call. And it was a lady that had no discernible accent. It was definitely an American that I was talking to saying that she was calling from the IRS and that there has been a problem with my tax Three's Company fun. And I kind of thought what what what's going on here? and you have all

Jack Heath 6:07
And you of all people right Mr. Like on guard and you get a call like that. Now imagine being living alone not being as up to date and how nerve-wracking that would be. Now, of course, folks out there, the IRS doesn't call you they don't call. But you don't get the call. You think it's real,

Craig Peterson 6:24
But you see, I knew I knew better. Right? And so I hung up and I just thought oh my gosh, what is really the IRS? What if there's really a problem? You know, am I really gonna get in trouble. And I knew better jack.

Jack Heath 6:40
Yeah, they're good.

Jason McIssac 6:42
What I tried to do is when I figured out it's a scam, I try to stay on the phone with them as long as possible, almost fun and mess with them. Yeah, because I figure if I'm taking up their time, that's less time they have to actually scam somebody, right?

Craig Peterson 6:53
And you know what else, you do is you basically turn it around and start asking them questions. So, if it's live - you can say, Oh, yeah, you say how many years you've been working with the IRS? And they might say they'll stick to their script. they'll stick to their script. And then you'll say, who's your field? Director, your supervisor, what Ira CY at what IRS office? You out of? Right? You ask him enough questions after a while you know you're here.

Jack Heath 7:22
Oh, Justin wouldn't love this.

Craig Peterson 6:53
I don't know if you guys saw this. But there was a captain and Stevens and she's with the apex Police Department down in North Carolina. And it was about a month ago she took a call from a man who identified himself as officer john black. And they were coming by to arrest Captain Stevens in about a 20 minutes if she didn't send the money. And Justin she does exactly what you were talking about. She messes with scammers she kept them on the phone. And there she is videotaping this whole thing. And she's in full uniform, you know her captain's uniform on and you know, you could go either way on this, but I like your approach. Justin, don't know my gut was turning over and I'm I didn't you know, she called back like three or four times. I just kept hanging up on her.

Jack Heath 8:10
But maybe that's the way to handle it. Yeah, just just just busting my chops. All right. Thank you, Craig Peterson, thank you very much on this Monday morning when we come back. General Motors.

Craig Peterson 8:19
By the way, if you are not on my email list, make sure you drop me a line. I send out great information I get so much good feedback. I so appreciate that. You guys, I really love you. And in what you're doing here for what I'm doing is I'm trying to get this information out to everybody, right? So you will get my weekly show notes is usually six to eight different articles that I have selected from the thousands that I've reviewed every week that I think are important to you as a business person, business owners, as well as home users, retirees, just like we did with that segment with jack. And then I also have free classes that I make sure I let you know about and some paid ones as well. So sign up right now at Craig Peterson, calm. Hey, have a great day and we'll be back on the morrow. Bye bye

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Welcome!  

Have you heard the term Deep Fake?  If not you will have to listen in as I tell you all about what they are and why it probably will affect you.

If you run a business, you are should be familiar with Audit logs.  If not listen in and I will explain why you not only have to keep them but read and analyze them.

Our poor seniors - the cybercriminals have them in their sites!  I will tell you about what the latest scammers took and how to protect it from happening to you.

Spearphishing is happening more often now and they are using your mobile device.  I will go into how they are doing it.

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Ransomware is up 4500% for one particular target! I will tell you what it is and why they like this particular target.

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Welcome!  

Have you heard the term Deep Fake?  If not you will have to listen in as I tell you all about what they are and why it probably will affect you.

If you run a business, you are should be familiar with Audit logs.  If not listen in and I will explain why you not only have to keep them but read and analyze them.

Our poor seniors - the cybercriminals have them in their sites!  I will tell you about what the latest scammers took and how to protect it from happening to you.

Spearphishing is happening more often now and they are using your mobile device.  I will go into how they are doing it.

Its the end of life for some of your computers -- do you know how to properly recycle your hard disks -- You might not so listen in.

Ransomware is up 4500% for one particular target! I will tell you what it is and why they like this particular target.

I will discuss another scam got me hot under the collar - because of the people that it targeted.

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Hey, I was on with Ken and Matt this morning. And we delved into a subject that I find absolutely fascinating. And that is the lack of privacy we have today, it has been incremental, the younger generations just really aren't even aware of it, because they've always grown up the whole time, with a lack of privacy. Where's this all leading? We're being monitored, even if we don't have electronic devices with us when we are out on the street. When we are in the shopping centers and malls, with some incredible new technology. I'm impressed with what they've been able to do. However, I'm also pretty scared about it as well. We spent my segment getting into that in some detail and a little bit more about how to find VPN as well. So here we go with Ken and Matt

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Hey, I was on with Ken and Matt this morning. And we delved into a subject that I find absolutely fascinating. And that is the lack of privacy we have today, it has been incremental, the younger generations just really aren't even aware of it, because they've always grown up the whole time, with a lack of privacy. Where's this all leading? We're being monitored, even if we don't have electronic devices with us when we are out on the street. When we are in the shopping centers and malls, with some incredible new technology. I'm impressed with what they've been able to do. However, I'm also pretty scared about it as well. We spent my segment getting into that in some detail and a little bit more about how to find VPN as well. So here we go with Ken and Matt

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Hey, I was on with my friend Jim Polito this morning. And we talked about a couple of things, Wi-Fi specifically public Wi-Fi, what are the warnings? What are they all about? What's the hysteria about public Wi Fi? Does it really matter? The pros and cons when it comes to it, and the VPNs because you should not use public Wi-Fii if you're not using a VPN. However, not all VPNs are created equal which is kind of a big deal to. This may be one of our more important little segments I ever did with Jim, frankly. Anyhow, we did all of that.

I also mentioned a couple of my cheat sheets that were included in my security summer promotion on these specific topics.  Jim is now on his way to the swamp of Washington, DC. Good luck down there. All right, everybody. Here we go with Jim!

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Hey, I was on with my friend Jim Polito this morning. And we talked about a couple of things, Wi-Fi specifically public Wi-Fi, what are the warnings? What are they all about? What's the hysteria about public Wi Fi? Does it really matter? The pros and cons when it comes to it, and the VPNs because you should not use public Wi-Fii if you're not using a VPN. However, not all VPNs are created equal which is kind of a big deal to. This may be one of our more important little segments I ever did with Jim, frankly. Anyhow, we did all of that.

I also mentioned a couple of my cheat sheets that were included in my security summer promotion on these specific topics.  Jim is now on his way to the swamp of Washington, DC. Good luck down there. All right, everybody. Here we go with Jim!

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