Medium does it again - Identity Theft

Last month I shared with you that a popular CBS television show, Medium, did an episode that touched on the topic of Nigerian Scams.  Well, in Episode 14 of Season 6 they focused on the topic of Identity Theft.  The episode was called "Will the Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up".  In this episode, after someone sent out an email with a attachment that allowed them to access your computer, everyone that Allison Dubois saw that did open that attachment looked like the person that was stealing everyone's identity to her.



Thank you, again, to the cast and staff of Medium who are choosing to take on topics that are really relevant to the times. I only wish at the end of the episode they would have posted something on where people can go to learn more about Identity Theft, like the FTC site.

Medium is based on the real life woman, Allison DeBois.  Below are some books about Allison and her life.

Scam mentioned on popular television

Does anyone watch the show Medium, about Allison DuBois who works for the DA's office and can see and hear people who have died and can pick up on things? Allison DuBois is a real person, and her gift has helped to solve many cases.

On the show this week her daughter Bridgette who also has this gift, runs into a man in the library using the computer every day. He is dressed as an African prince, or at least that is the way that he appears to the girl. She sees the name that he uses on an email account, and when her older sister is later complaining about the spam emails and mentions the same name Bridgette tells the family that she knows this guy and that he comes to the library all of the time. They family tried to tell Bridgette that it is a scam, and that he is just pretending to be a Prince with a lot of money and that in his emails he asks you to give him some money to help him get his money out of the bank that it is in.

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So, the next day Bridgette sees this guy at the library again and gives him all of the money she has (about $30 I think . . . remember, this is a girl in grade school) and she says he can take it to help him get his money and then he just has to pay her back when he does get her money.



The man later returns to the library to give Bridgette her money back saying that he cannot take money from a little girl, and that he had only been doing this type of thing for a few weeks. Don't we all wish that THIS part happened in real life!

I do think it is great that they are getting the word about the Nigerian scams out into the popular television shows. This one episode could have helped to educate a lot of people that this is a scam.

http://www.tv.com/medium/dear-dad-.../episode/1317709/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;summary