This week on the perfect scam.

EMS works so closely with police and fire that it's almost like a universal brotherhood,

you know, of shared experiences.

And you learn the lingo, you learn how to talk. of shared experiences.

And you learn the lingo, you learn how to talk to people

who you work with that closely.

And I really believed I was talking to police officers

because they answered me like any other police officer would have that I might have worked with in the past.

Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. It's really easy to find

personal information about anyone and everyone these days. You've probably heard a lot about data breaches at big companies.

I mean if you've never googled yourself you should probably do that right now.

But you might be surprised to find there are plenty of other sources where criminals can find out information about you that they can use to invent a very believable story that leads to a perfect scan and one of those sources can be

Uncle Sam. Victor Font has enjoyed a long career in information technology first in New Jersey and then in North Carolina.

In fact, he's even written a book called The Cybersecurity Primer.

He's spent a lifetime making people aware of the risks they face online.

And that's why he was floored by what happened to him earlier this year.

But before we get to that, I want you to know something else about Victor that makes him special.

I was an EMT part of the New Jersey

Harrimidical pilot program. I was one of the first 500 paramedics to graduate from the New Jersey State

Department of Health Training Program. We got Paramedic

started but before you can enter the Paramedicine started, but before you can enter the paramedic program, the law back then was that you had to work as a volunteer EMT for at least one year and have it all your hours documented. So I did my

volunteer time in Union City Volunteer Ambulance Court.

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