{"id":1120,"date":"2024-11-30T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:12:48","slug":"basic-electronic-communication-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Basic Electronic Communication Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tragically, there are countless stories of victims losing their entire life savings to texting\/phone\/email schemes. Adding to this is the evidence that many of the scammers are from forced labor situations. The best way to avoid becoming a victim is to adjust OUR BEHAVIOR. <strong><em>Do NOT respond.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You should never respond to unsolicited texts or unsolicited conversations about loans or investments or money. <\/strong>If you do get caught in a scam, your best defense is to NOT feel embarrassed and <strong><em>get out as soon as you can, even with a loss<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before making investments, reach out to AIKAPA or a knowledgeable trusted person for a second or third opinion. Ideally you will be able to ignore these types of contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it becomes clear that it is a scam, then file a complaint on the FBI&#8217;s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3): https:\/\/www.ic3.gov. If it is related to crypto assets, then also report it to cryptofraud@usss.dhs.gov and the Secret Service will refer your email to an appropriate field office for immediate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edi Alvarez, CFP\u00ae<br>BS, BEd, MS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/\">www.aikapa.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragically, there are countless stories of victims losing their entire life savings to texting\/phone\/email schemes. Adding to this is the evidence that many of the scammers are from forced labor situations. The best way to avoid becoming a victim is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/?p=1120\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[437],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cyber-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}