What's With Those Strange Texts We've Been Getting?

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 14pt;"><strong>What's With Those Strange Texts We've Been Getting?</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">PLUS</span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align: left;"><span class="JsGRdQ">Hackers Using Deepfakes to Get Jobs</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span class="JsGRdQ">Autonomous Taxis Block Intersection</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span class="JsGRdQ">This New Law May Make Your Medical Care Cheaper and Better</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span class="JsGRdQ">Even the NSA is Being Spied On</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span class="JsGRdQ">Do You Use the Best Search Engine?</span></li> </ul> <p>What's the deal with those weird, wrong number texts. This is kind of a really big deal, frankly, when we get right down to it, because we are getting scammed, there's even a special name for these types of scams. and I don't even know what to start with this, cuz it's absolutely crazy.</p> <p>[Following is an Automated Transcript]</p> <p>[00:00:18] This is I'll follow on to a scam. Again, if you've been on the internet for a while, you're familiar with the Nigerian scam. You remember that? where there was a Nigerian prince. And of course there's a lot of variations of this scam, but he needed to get his money out of Nigeria. And the only way he could really do that is by using a us bank account.</p> <p>[00:00:43] And, you know, if you had a us bank account, you could really help him. And sure enough people would respond because he said, Hey, listen, I I've gotta wire some money out in order to gain access to it. And you can keep some of that money. And that amount kind of varied. And most of us kinda looked at that and with, uh, kind of crossed ice and said, what the heck?</p> <p>[00:01:08] How could this possibly work with anybody? The grammar was so bad. So much of it was just so out of reality, frankly, And really here here's the bottom line. It worked because it was poorly w