Is your Macomb county prosecutor, ███████████. Press 2. If you would like not to receive this type of call in the future. I am currently conducting a live toll free town hall meeting over the phone about stopping crimes against McCombs seniors with my outreach coordinator ███████. For an opportunity to learn more about the resources available and to ask questions. Please stay on the line and allow us to automatically connect you to my live town hall meeting. Again, this is your Macomb county prosecutor, ████████████. And welcome to my telephone town hall meeting, which is now in progress. Thank you. ████████████. You are joining a live conference already in progress. Please be aware that your local phone company may leave your line open for up to ██ seconds after you leave the conference. If you would like to ask the speaker a question, please press zero. And I love serving. I was in private practice for over ██ years. I have three children myself, and my wife and I have been married over ██ years. I want to let you know that I am proud to be a resident of McComb county, and my children the same. And we want to protect everybody. From these scams. So let's get going if we can, ████, ok? If you would like to ask a question and join the conversation. All you need to do is press zero. And Prosecutor ██████, we're launching some questions start to come in right now. Why don't we take some. We're waiting for some questions to actually pop up from our operators here, so maybe just to touch on something you talked about. Prevention here is key, isn't it? Yep, it is. And when we go out in the community, we talk about how these scams started. Well, when we grew up, when we were younger, we had filled out information for a financial institution, let's say like a bank. And we used to give our name, our date of birth, our Social Security number, our home address. And they would ask us also for our mother's maiden name as the secret password. We didn't have PIN numbers back then. We didn't have email addresses, we didn't have cell phones, and we only had it on a three by five card. And we did a passbook saving. It would go through a word processor and then a ker chunker would go down and the teller would put their initials on it when you made a deposit. And at night, they'd put the 3 by 5 card holder with the 3 by 5 card in and inside of a file cabinet, and that's where they kept the storage. Today. I wish you'd go out and try to understand. If you open up a passbook, savings. They're going to tell you to go to a kiosk or go online and fill out a ██ page form asking you every question under the sun, asking you for your email address, your cell phone number, if you own any annuities, IRAs, 401ks, if you have a mortgage on your house. If your house is paid off, how much is it worth? They ask all kinds of questions. Not just banks, but also credit unions and insurance companies and everybody that's holding our finances. Remember, we may just have what we have in our pocket and our purse. Or what we stash at our house. But for the most part, most of our money is invested to catch the yield to hedge inflation. The information you give on these applications is going to be shared. So when you choose to fill out the application online, You notice that it turns red when you don't fill out something that you feel uncomfortable. The screen turns red and it won't let you go through unless you give that information. Remember, financial companies that you choose share your personal information and the only way that you're going to stop that is if you opt out. Opt out Right on the form. You should be opted out automatically and only opted in to have that information shared. But it goes the other way.