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Today we're here to answer your questions from Twitter.

How do scam call centers even get our numbers?

This is called data harvesting, and there's no way to avoid it.

We have undercover agents in India working for call center, and they literally told us so many times that bosses of call center, they will send people to America so they can get jobs at any database, phone companies, and they will literally get all information and sell it back to India.

Any newsletter you sign up for, any time you interact with a business, put your email, your cell phone, your table reservation, restaurant, your data is harvested and it's sold all the time.

There's a lot more laws in place now about you having to physically opt in and have to consent to the data.

And now the cookie approval, like on every website, you have to accept it.

By you doing that, you are giving consent for your activities online to be logged and used against you for advertising.

Data lists that could be sold from company to company, and there are data brokers that all have your information.

I'm like, I've never even heard of any of these companies.

Why do scam texts always have a spelling or grammar mistake?

It's almost like they do it on purpose to give you a little clue.

It's very common to have grammatical spelling mistakes.

I have heard a theory, and I don't think it's too far-fetched, that it is intentional because they're trying to grasp a particular person that would fall for this, and they don't want to waste their time talking to someone that wouldn't fall for this.

Honestly, I think it's because they're all international.

All international. English is second, third language, and they're just trying to find a way to get your money, and they're making a lot of mistakes.

How do scam callers get paid, hourly or commission?

They have varying sizes of operations from just a few people in an apartment to literally 5,000 people on a staff in a major business complex.

There is an opener, person who is opening the phone.

Hi, my name is John Wilson, and I'm here this and this.

So every single position get paid different money, but the more you scam, you're going to get commission.

So if you scammed an extra $5,000, you get an extra 5,000 rupees as a commission, which honestly is kind of sickening because it all goes to the bosses.

Millions and millions of dollars on a sometimes weekly basis.

First of all, it's hard to track, and it works internationally without any barrier.

A lot of these scammers are not in the States, and that's not to say there aren't scammers in the States because there are.

It's really easy. They can just claim a number.

They can do whatever they got to do to text you.

It doesn't cost them any money. It's free.

It's secure in the sense that they know that they're never going to be tracked or found out.

So they'll put out billions of fishhooks, and even if a couple people grab them, they're basically waiting for you to reply and say, wrong number.

And once you do, they know it's an active number.

They know they're talking to a person, and then they can start up a conversation.

Sometimes it might turn into a romance scam.

Sometimes they'll be like, oh, wrong number.

Are there any good ways to protect your parents from phone scams?

Communication and awareness is number one.

These scammers are not just technically savvy.

They will find a weakness, especially in an older person that might be vulnerable, and they will push on that as hard as they possibly can.

Make sure your grandparents and your parents are aware of the tricks.

A common scam that's now taking a resurgence is an IRS or a social security scam.

Which targets elderly people hardcore because that one plays on the fear.

They say that you're going to get arrested because your social security number was associated with some crimes.

We found a car, a Toyota Corolla, 22 pounds of cocaine, blood, drugs, and your ID.

Have them run things by you, or at least run it by somebody before they give any information to anybody.

But we also need to communicate that if you were scammed, you need to talk about it.

Like you need to tell people what happened.

You need to tell people what the tactics were that convinced you and not feel shameful or feel judged.

We really want that those victims will step up and show the world,

And that's how you protect your neighbors and your loved ones.

Somebody I don't know accidentally privately Venmo'd me two $60 payments for burritos and breakfasts and is asking for a refund.

Common scam, especially through like Cash App and Venmo.

Money was sent to you from a stolen credit card.

They request the refund or the reimbursement and they replace it with their own card.

May not necessarily hurt you because it comes in and goes out, but it's their way of basically laundering income through somebody's stolen credit card back to themselves.

How do I tell my uncle that the beautiful chick he's talking to online is a man trying to scam a huge amount of money without him getting offended?

I think he can invest half a million dollars.