Continue to push and make strides and fight for civil rights things do get better we do have various achievements that we can point to but it cheap mints without control achievements without ownership only gets you so far so thats one of the key. Problems that artists still face we you mentioned Little Richard earlier Little Richard is from macon georgia from georgia and one of the things that he always talked about was how so many people were stealing his craft stealing his material and reuse again and he never got the credit that he ultimately deserved the same thing is kind of happening now but just not want to wider scale as it was in the past and a bow did lead to poor you know. Our legacy dot com you quoted Patricia Hill columns and she said challenging power structures from the inside. Working the cracks within the system requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly for content creators is technology shifting that power in olden times a writer would go manuscript in hand to a book publisher now anybody can publish free instantly and online things can go viral on social media youre getting five thousand views on your website is the Playing Field more level now i think that technology has definitely offered more opportunities more access but is not necessarily a level Playing Field because we go back to a lot of the times having a lack of access to ownership even right now we have the f. C. C. That repeal the Net Neutrality rules so we see them now that things are still kind of up in the air but yes there are more opportunities and i think that as we continue to push more towards having a more democratic internet more democratic access to technology in stem fields will see them war achievements and opportunities arise i got about a minute we thought perhaps naively that president obamas election would signal a post racial america we seem more divided even back then and now President Trump with the dog whistle getting louder and louder are we moving forwards or backwards oh. I honestly think that in some ways we are definitely moving backwards as a society in terms of this racialized overtones that are being used to separate people however i think were moving forward because we see that this error is pushing forward a new time for youth activists and we see that with more dog whistling we see more truth being pushed for we see more activists stepping for we see basically a. To day where youth are rising up and saying no this is not the america that we want this is not the america that we are i too am america like Langston Hughes said and we identify for it and were going to continue to make sure that our voices our young people are growing up feeling empowered thank you jessica and michel i will your. Right now wiseguys are trying to steal your identity and your money half a dozen ways grab a pen recently we had a chance to talk to attorney and author steven j. J. Wiseman and hes going to be here with us scam busters six pack after this short break im holland cook this is the big picture on our two america. You dont. Got security interests thats Russian Security interest ok no just a thought we want a stable syria and we want a stable lebanon and yukon just send in planes every week to bomb the country and disrupt the political process in this way its unacceptable. Right now you are at risk so grab a pen and listen carefully to an ace scam buster attorney and professor stephen j. J. Wiseman is an expert on fraud Identity Theft and whatever else the wise guys are doing to try to rip you off if you can only read one of the ten books hes written we recommend Identity Theft alert ten rules you must follow to protect yourself from americas number one crime his website updated daily is scam aside come steve welcome back to the big picture its great to be with you you warned us that more than two hundred Million People are at risk right now and ive never known you to be a fearmonger is it really that bad no its not that bad it is far worse double the number of four hundred twenty five Million People including me that are at risk well and you too so grab the armrest because steve is here with that six pack of scams that are out there right now so were going to move briskly through information you need to know first up its income tax season have you filed yours yet has someone else filed yours yet steve tax time is prime time for Identity Theft whats the play and how can we play defense. It could tax Identity Theft is still a multibillion dollar problem for the i. R. S. And for we as taxpayers someone gets our Social Security number or files an income tax return with a phony w. Two they get in there before we do our refund gets delayed and delayed almost as long as a year so the best thing you can do are two things one file early gather your documents file early before the income tax identity thief can do it and you will be able to avoid this the second thing maybe look at your w. Four and lower the amount of your refund because if youre not getting a refund then you dont care if somebody gets in there first thats a good idea because that the refund is a tax free loan youve given uncle sam another rip off making iraq lately has to do with the do not call list which was supposed to protect us whats up with a vast. The do not call list actually does work pretty well you get on this list and legitimate telemarketers there are some are not allowed to call you charities can call you politicians can call you but no no retailers no one else can call you as a telemarketer but whats happening is the bad guys are taking advantage of this and theyre texting you theyre emailing you and theyre telling you guess what your registration needs to be redone with the do not call list so we need your personal information theyre gathering your personal information to make you a victim of Identity Theft you never ever have to reregister for the do not call list most of these scams are are not obvious either they say they speak with the authority of the i. R. S. Or something but these people arent going to call you generally are they. No there really not and thats the thing when you get a call from the i. R. S. You get a call from Social Security administration or medicare it is in from them even if your phone says it is because is a technique called they can make it look like its legit and i dont believe caller id i got an email and quickly deleted it about scam number three were going to talk about the Grand Rapids Police Department flagged this steve tell us in laymans terms what is fishing with a ph and how these netflix impersonators are trying to hook us. Fishing is the biggest basis for every major data breach from target to Government Data breaches to sony but when its aimed at us individually its an email or a text message that looks like its from something legitimate like netflix because they send it out in a wide range because they know where all in there and it appears to come from this legitimate source asks us that tells us is some emergency in the case of this netflix when theres been a problem with our account we need to reconfirm our credit card so they ask for that personal information people provide it or they click on a link and download malware so its trust me you cant trust anyone you never give personal information you never click on a link unless youve absolutely confirmed its legit you know and it may look legit because its easy for them to simply grab a logo from bank of america or a netflix or something and embed it in that phony email and what i do is click to look at the from address up there because its never from what seems to be right. Yeah thats one of the things thats a good good telltale if its coming from some individuals name in fact they probably are part of a bot net of computers that are used to send this out but sometimes the email address that sending it may even look close so you do look for that you look for the grammar problems but like you said anyone can get a a low goal i used to work in a prison in the theres a the old con artists there said when they did it it took talent now any fourth of the computer now whats this i hear about a new Social Security scam you dont similar to the same type of phishing thing and seniors are particularly targeted and theres an interesting reason why theres a part of the brain as we age that controlled skepticism that becomes less viable cornell just did a study about this so the senior will get an email or a text message again from Social Security telling them theres been a computer problem and this is the what the scam is now the computer problem requires us to reconfirm our Social Security number of course its not from Social Security and you turn over that Social Security number and that identity thief is going to get credit in your name file an income tax return in your name you never provide that Social Security number to anyone unless they really need it and its legit now i heard on the radio theres a new service thats going to help someone from putting a lien on your home based on information about the title of your home that they can get from city hall is this another thing to be on the lookout for and what can we do. You know there are a lot of scams out there in the involving the various registries of deeds in which you can get someone to check on your title for you or to get you some certified title and theyre all scams you dont need any of this so you can do this on your own you can check on this and theres nothing thats going to prevent an illegal lien and what theyre doing you can do for free gotcha now if youre scoring at home or up to number five steve wisemans scam alert six pack and its fallout from that aqua fax hack a while back right steve. The equifax thats where im in danger as well equifax did not install software for which there was a Security Patch patching a vulnerability that had been patched months before so they got hit with malware through a phishing attack four hundred twenty five million of us have our Social Security and personal information out there we are in danger of Identity Theft of the rest of the rest of our lives so equifax out of the goodness of their heart was offering free credit a Credit Monitoring Services up until january thirty first now they have extended this all the way to to june you can sign up for this free credit monitoring it probably is worth doing but you should also sign up for a credit freeze theyll offer you a credit lock their own particular type of way of locking up your credit but its not the way to go its not as protected by law you want to do a credit freeze at each of the three major credit reporting agencies so even if someone does have your Social Security number theyre not going to be able to access your credit yeah i hear radio ads all over the place for life lock and Similar Services but youve put links on your website correct how do we find those links where you can do it yourself about the credit freeze. Yeah and you can do it yourself with a credit freeze you can do it for free with credit monitoring and what you go to scam aside and where it says search the search the web site or search for scams you just put in credit monitoring or credit freeze and itll come up with the links that you can do it off for yourself at much less cost or even free and then if you want to apply for a credit card or have some other reason for people to be checking on your credit you can on freeze it and then refreeze it right yeah and its actually pretty easy to do i had to do this myself following my own advice for a change a lot i got to admit my my wife throws her credit from before i did and i was leasing a car so it was a very very simple procedure and very quick to unfreeze my credit get the loan once the bank checked out my credit and then freeze it back again and it is not a difficult procedure so paying one of these services is superfluously your opinion absolutely you dont need someone else to do that for you right ok scam six of six sounds really heinous to me in front Social Security numbers are being sold on the dark web. Yeah the dark web is a part of the internet where the bad guys do business and they buy and they they sell stolen credit cards stolen accounts just recently the Justice Department indicted thirty six people on a major multi multi Million Dollar hundreds of millions of dollars dark web site so they get all of this stolen data and whats going on now is infant Social Security numbers if youre a parent youve got to get a Social Security number for your child in order to have the child listed on your income taxes as a deduction so the children have these Social Security numbers they get stolen sold to other criminals and because kids arent applying inference arent applying for credit theyre not getting loans and not applying for jobs it can be years maybe not even done till theyre eighteen maybe applying for a student loan or a car loan or trying to get a job that they find out that theyve been a victim of Identity Theft theyve got problems with the i. R. S. Theyve got problems with creditors some states allow you to freeze the credit of your children so again you can go to scam aside put in child Identity Theft and find out what you need to do to protect your children so in short hang up the phone delete the emails encourage a Social Security number like the crown jewels on my right thats it trust me you cant trust anyone. Scary stuff and lots of it and i realize we went briskly here but you can read all the details on these and other rip offs youll want to avoid on steves website scam aside dot com ace scam buster stephen Jay Jay Wiseman thanks again for stepping into the big picture. Im holland cook in washington and that is the big picture if you missed any part of this weeks show or if youd like to share it you can or youll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash big picture r t you can watch anywhere any time on any device that next weekend meantime question more. When you dont. Get a court to do. 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