If it is a Good Deal Today, it will be a Good Deal Tomorrow!

• July
• 30

5:06 pm Cyber Security

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The guest on this show was Dr. Robert Kirk, an independent consultant for major health care organizations. Dr. Kirk has worked with hundreds of millions of dollars with these companies and has a lot of experience that he wants to share. His company was started up to help organizations better deal with their money and resist fraud. Listen to the interview here:

He recently has been working against cyberspace fraud, specifically in the financial means. Late in his career Dr. Kirk was sued with a “slap suit” which is often used by large companies to try to intimidate critics. Slap suits have been used against other companies and individuals, and could possible even reach home based business owners working on the internet. Slap suits generally come in the form of deformation or libel suits and can cost the defendant thousands of dollars, even if the suit is based on thin air. This is a common scam that is often successfully run that people need to be aware of. There are several of scams out there that families or individuals can fall prey to. Keep yourself safe with, [Managed PC Care…]

It’s important to learn how to avoid and watch out for such scams. A common scam that is run is spam. There are billions of e-mails sent out everyday broadcasting business or investment opportunities. This is an incredibly cheap way to contact millions of people. Scam artists today are a lot different than they used to be. Scam artists are organized businesses now. Scam artists main attraction is to offer you something big (money, trips, etc) with little or no effort on your part. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is! The reason people often fall prey to such scams is that they have a desire to trust people.

Scam artists know this and work hard to gain the trust of their victims, then are able to scam them better. There are several ways to avoid scams, however. First, check your facts. Take a step back from the situation and learn about it more, talk to your lawyer, financial advisor, or another independent source. Whatever you do, don’t make snap decisions. One way to check your facts is to use Google, which has become a great resource for finding information on just about everything. Another thing to do is to wait. If it’s a good deal today, it will still be a good deal tomorrow.

Take your time and think it over!

Children also fall prey to scams easy. The key to children avoiding scams is education. Kids need to be educated against scams, as do their parents and family. The more education available to everyone on the subject, the more scams will be avoided. Laws on the subject of scamming are nearly nonexistent. Though the laws are on the books, they are often times not enforced. The reasons for this don’t lie in funding alone, but in a lack of desire to create such laws.

Things like cyber-bullying are new and often times not taken seriously.

Complacency is often the biggest issue, because victims don’t want to come forward if they’re mistreated by those in charge and those in charge need to take victims seriously. As long as everyone is complacent and doesn’t work for change, then nothing will change. One of the biggest problems is that victims of scams are often not heard from. The victims often lose their money and privacy, but don’t have a means to bring this to people’s attentions.

One way to make people realize how often scams happen is to organize and share. Once the public is more aware of it they need to organize and put pressure on elected officials. Without pressure elected officials will most likely look in the other direction. It is the responsibility of the public to challenge the complacency of elected officials, because without the public pressure, nothing will change.

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