Relocalizing VT: Top Scams & How to Avoid Them

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Jan 10, 2019, 9 to 10:30 AM

Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - Vermonters are on their way once more to a January Women's March in DC, plus how to avoid the most common phone scams.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Rachel Siegel works as director of the Peace and Justice Center in Burlington. They're organizing bus rides to Washington, DC for the Women's March on Saturday, January 19. She'll also talk about youth organizing work they're doing, as well as ongoing education around the state, and more.
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Amy Schramm of the Better Business Bureau will be speaking next Monday, January 14 at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier on "Scams, Fraud and Identity Theft." This is the BBB's most popular program. She'll preview that talk for us, covering the most common scams currently circulating the community, the major red flags to watch out for, and the precautionary steps we can take to protect ourselves from falling victim to identity theft. It will include a warning about the most recently developed scam, where callers pose as being from Medicare. This comes on the heels of the warning from the Vermont Attorney General's Office about the top 10 scams of 2018.
https://www.kellogghubbard.org/adult-programs
https://vtdigger.org/2019/01/08/office-attorney-general-releases-top-2018-scams/

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, plus upcoming events related to energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil.

Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org

Now with on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at www.wgdr.org/on-demand

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