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To: robert b furman who wrote (25733)	9/2/2025 11:28:16 AM
From: Jerry Held	4 Recommendations Recommended By diegosan JubilationT Kirk © sixty2nds Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26482

I don't think voice security is security anymore since your voice can be copied and made to say anything at all and sound like you. I told Schwab this and I insisted on giving them a password that they ask me for before we have any conversation about my accounts. Just one more layer to keep my stuff mine.

To: robert b furman who wrote (25733)	9/2/2025 11:29:48 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26482

Thanks. You can be my VP! Beware, the new scam now is to try to make friends with you on social media sites then try to get you to connect with them using WhatsApp or Google Chat where the security tools don't protect you. One seemingly attractive and very young gal is working on me now via FB. I like playing along and see how many hoops I can get them to jump through. I believe the goal is to have voice and even video chats with you to build trust and get you to invest in their fake crypto schemes where you make great returns until you don't have any more to invest and need to get some out. The other reasons to get your voice and video is to use AI to get into your accounts or to get your family members to help you out of "emergencies" by sending money. Anyway, my newest rule-of-thumb is I don't talk on the phone or do video chats unless I know someone IRL or maybe like us, have decades of experience online and have received "Taste of Wisconsin" packages, etc. for proof it was not a scammer. I've suspected a few folks on SI over the decades of being fake or plants or whatever for similar reasons... even some very well loved ones. For example, they might get a commission from getting new suckers to pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a year to others... and not disclose it.