This is the title I gave to this presentation. This is a continuation of notes of Pt. A. It was presented by Frand Abangale. Steven Spielberg made a movie called, Catch Me If You Can”. The movie details his life of crime doing fraud. He then worked for the FBI to teach them how to catch fraudsters.

Q: How to protect on any social media?
– We will realize that social medial is a bad thing. If you tell me where you were born and when > online that will give an 85% chance of others stealing your identity. Never tell birth pale of birthday.
– Fishing emails: In the past, you could catch fishing emails by bad spelling. Now thieves use social media. Criminals will follow events in people’s lives. They will take the info of a planned event in the present time. Then when the planned event is occurring, the criminal creates emails at the time of an event. They will use references for that event and then put their wire instructions on social media to get their target to send money.
– Thieves will use the event and then may wire someone’s info.
– You need to be careful what you say and post on email.
– If you are asked to wire a bunch of money, you need to verify whom that message came from.
– Cyber insurance: It will not save your reputation. The person offering that coverage should require that the investor have to do certain things of prevention. If the preventions are not in place then that company may not feel they have the claim.
– There is a 400% increase of scams,
– Government is 648billing to pay unemployment. 68bilions in fraudulent claims have been made. Maybe 100 billion. They did not take the appropriate prevention measure. When the Federal government did not require that states to be liable for fraud, the states did not feel obligated to take prevention measures.
AARP is the largest organization working to help senior citizens not be vulnerable to fraud.
– Book: fraud me if you can (?) the book covers all types of scams from marriage, bitcoin, and millennials.
– Millennials are scammed more often but seniors lose more money because they have more money.
– No matter how confident or mature two red flags identify scammers.
– A. At some time in the relationship, I will ask you for a high amount of money and they need it immediately.
– B. At some point, I will ask you for personnel information such as credit card, birthday, and social security number etc.
– If you don’t know who is on the other end of the emails or phone> before you part your personal information, you need to verify who that person is. Someone may call you or email you out of the blue. Do that and you won’t’ be scammed.

Q: Do you have any last advice?
– If you make it easy to have people steal from you, the chances are, they will. Be a little smarter, wiser, and understand the environment you are in. Protect yourself; educate yourself and your family.
– Contact frand@abangale.com if you have questions. It may take several weeks for a reply.
– His website gives advice. https://abagnale.com/index2.asp

Articles:
– Detecting and Deterring Embezzlement in the 21st Century
– https://www.abagnale.com/pdf/EMBEZZLEMENT-Detecting_and_Deterring-Nov2020.pdf

– Catch the scam video
– https://abagnale.com/hebvideos.htm

– Constant Wonder, Frank Abagnale Interview
– https://abagnale.com/audio-interview-byu-radio.htm

– The Perfect Scam podcasts
– https://www.aarp.org/podcasts/the-perfect-scam.html?cmp=RDRCT-94a30519-20200401