Spent three days with some of the best experts in the world talking about the current epidemic of fraud…

We’ve all seen texts from an unknown number with a variety of exploits – are we meeting for coffee? My dog isn’t eating his dog food, please help… we need to cancel the yoga class… come to my house tomorrow to eat ribs… if you respond (to say, wrong recipient, for example), you’ll likely get “I hope I’m not disturbing you” as a response. Then you’ll get a photo from Jessica or Amy or Ethan or…

Don’t engage. Block and delete. There’s a good change that a trafficked person is on the other end of the text. If you do engage, they will play a long game – play on your emotions – try and understand exactly how much wealth you have and then they will steal it. All of it.

Erin West has done some amazing work in this space. For more see her NFP:

https://www.operationshamrock.org/