{ "item_title" : "100 Tips to Protect Yourself from Scams and Fraud", "item_author" : [" Marcus Bennett "], "item_description" : "Scammers are not targeting the gullible. They are running a rehearsed script on people who were simply having an ordinary day.Fraud has become an industry. It is organized, well funded, and staffed by people who do this all day, every day - while you meet it once, without warning, usually when you are busy or tired. That is the real reason intelligent, careful people lose money. Not foolishness, and never a failure of character.This book is one hundred plain-English things you can actually do. Each one takes a page or two and ends with a single action. Most take seconds. Several you set up once and never think about again, which are the most valuable kind.What you will learnThe three-part play behind almost every scam - authority, urgency, isolation - so you can recognize frauds that have not been invented yetWhy caller ID means nothing, and the one habit that defeats phone impersonationThe sentence no real bank has ever said, and why hearing it is proof of fraudHow AI voice cloning powers the family emergency scam, and the five-minute family safe word that stops it deadGift cards, transfers and cryptocurrency - how to recognize a criminal by the way they want to be paidRomance and friendship fraud, including the investment version that never asks you for money directlyTech support scams, remote access, and the pop-up that is always fakeInvestment and pension fraud, and how to check a firm on your regulator's registerDoorstep callers, prize letters and official-looking postExactly what to do in the first hour, the first day and the first week if it has already happenedWritten to be read, not filed awaySet in large, clear type. No jargon, no lectures, and no blame. It does not tell you to stop answering the telephone or to suspect everyone - that advice makes life smaller without making it safer, and most people ignore it anyway.There is a chapter for people who have already lost money, and it is worth reading before anything happens. If it has happened to you: you were the victim of a crime committed by a professional. Shame is why most fraud goes unreported, and unreported fraud is exactly what lets it continue.A practical gift for a parent - and a book you will use yourself.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/132/9798171320188_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "9.99", "online_price" : "9.99", "our_price" : "9.99", "club_price" : "9.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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