Recently, Peter O'Dowd got this voicemail.

Hey, this is Amelia from Walmart, a pre-authorized purchase of PlayStation 5, with special

edition and Pulse 3D headset is being ordered from your Walmart account for an amount of

$919.45. To cancel your order or to connect with one of our customer support representatives,

please press one. Peter is our colleague, an editor at NPR's here and now. He did not order a PlayStation.

He does not have a Walmart account, and he rightly guessed that Amelia was AI. The call was a scam.

Had he returned the call, he might have heard something like this.

Oh, you did not order.

Oh, okay, can you please give us your credit card details

so that we can cancel your order?

And then they take it from there

and they try to get as much personal as financial information as possible

from you.

As CEO of Scamadvisor.com and managing director of the Global Scam Alliance, George Abraham

tracks attempts to separate you from your money and your personal information.

It doesn't matter what your education level or how old you are.

There's always one moment in your life that a scammer finds you at the right time with

the right message to scam you.

For Kelly Richmond Pope, that one moment was a few years ago when Bruno Morris was appearing

in her city.

So she went to the Ticketmaster website and she managed to get fantastic seats cheap.

So my cousin and I go to the Bruno Mars concert. We're super excited. We get in, go through the United Center door and we get a big X over the ticket.

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