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Good morning, everybody. Thanksgiving week. of course, you know. Man, I went to the grocery store over the weekend and I have never seen a quite that busy before. Well, I think I have actually, I think about it. It was Thanksgiving last year. Everybody's out shopping everybody saying, "Hey, I shop all the time on the weekend and there's never this busy." So some of us are lying. Right? At least that's what I said to myself. Then I realized, you know what, yeah, I kind of shop all week long give or take. Anyhow, I was on this morning with Jack Heath and we were talking about some of the scams out there. Do you know about typosquatting? Well, that's what we talked about this morning. Here we go with Mr. Jack Heath.

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Craig Peterson  Good morning, everybody. Thanksgiving week. of course, you know. Man, I went to the grocery store over the weekend and I have never seen a quite that busy before. Well, I think I have actually, I think about it. It was Thanksgiving last year. Everybody's out shopping everybody saying, "Hey, I shop all the time on the weekend and there's never this busy." So some of us are lying. Right? At least that's what I said to myself. Then I realized, you know what, yeah, I kind of shop all week long give or take. Anyhow, I was on this morning with Jack Heath and we were talking about some of the scams out there. Do you know about typosquatting? Well, that's what we talked about this morning. Here we go with Mr. Jack Heath.

Jack Heath Craig Peterson with a tech talk update. And hopefully speaking of technology, Craig, people on Thursday, just in some commentary will put down these handheld devices that actually communicate with others in person if they're around family and And turn this thing off all day. Unless you're listening to I Heart Radio the app. Good morning, Craig.

Craig Peterson Or they could be wondering why would they do that they're going to be shopping. There is a whole lot of stores now that are going to be selling this week, some at some of the lowest prices of the year. So it's not just Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but we're going to be seen and we already are now quite a few different vendors online that you're going to have to be kind of careful of by the way while you're shopping this week, and I learned something new this year to the best deals for airline flights out of the year are expected this not tomorrow, but a week from tomorrow, the Tuesday after Cyber Monday. So if you're planning on flying, particularly after the first of the year, you will see the lowest prices ever come a week from tomorrow. Also the Tuesday after Cyber Monday. But we have a new statistic out right now that was conducted by a company looking at all of these online websites that we shop at. And they found that there are four times more fake retailer sites than real ones out there. What this means is, these fake sites are pretending they are the real big-box retailer. And when you go there, bottom line, you could be in trouble they use them for fishing, etc. And they're using something jack called typos squatting, they found 50,000 websites out there, that if you mistype the name of the retailer, you are going to end up on a site that is frankly trying to steal your information. Check Honey,

Jack Heath You know what that looks and feels like the one and then you go to order by you know, go to the cart and how do you know it's not it's a bogus site.

Craig Peterson Well, the best thing to do is to be very careful while you're typing. But the real retailers will have not only a secure sit