Have you ever bought a car only to find out that after your purchase EVERYBODY seems to have your same car?
Being a bit nerdy (is that a word?) after writing the post a few back about recent cell phone scammers and phishing, it seems like it has surrounded us!
This from a Flight Magazine just after the aforementioned post!
Apps We Have Tested and a Comprehensive Resource (Humor here too)After the splash scammer post, Donald the Brain, noted an app for extra help …
Of course…
“There’s an App for that!”
Here is the At&t App- Be careful upon install to only sign up for basic coverage unless you want to pay the extra monthly charge – our family has found the basic to be VERY helpful… and it’s free…
Verizon’s Call Block App – Not having this service we are not sure on its effectiveness or cost, but as direct competitors, likely very similar.
In an unsuccessful search for Sprint and other Apps we found this interesting comprehensive article from PC Magazine – in true irony form, this article has tons of pop up adds … so similar to unwanted calls (digressing again!) –
Per the article there is even a paid for App that will heckle the callers by using pre-recorded answers to waste their time…. not sure would go that far, but its available…each to their own.
Lastly, those wondering about the 11 year old and his no answer about hitting the link (last item in original post) the phone has not exploded and seems to work, but his number certainly has the most attention… Hilton alleged call just yesterday! (He answered but did not hit a button for response!)
We would recommend you carefully answer any texts/calls, as from our experience it let’s the other party know it’s a live number!
Grrrrrrrr
Have a Great “Updated Scammers” Day!
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.
jkfinancialinc
street-cents
August 2019 Podcast Video, Financial Planning and Capital Market Update – By John Kvale (With Blooper at end of Video)
Hello and Welcome to our August 2019 Financial Planning and Capital Market Update!
If you are too busy to read, feel free to listen as we describe our post and thoughts in friendly podcast format as well as Video!
Newbies –
We like to articulate our thoughts and review on a Monthly basis our Financial Planning Tips, Capital Markets and current events!
August – 2019 Video
Financial Planning Tip (s) –
Three Most Important Social Security Posts SO FAR
As of this review we have one more unique age related Social Security Post to come, but the three most important posts so far are as follows:
Living Spousal Benefits
Deceased Spousal Benefits
Divorced Spousal Benefits
Click each link for the actual post…. each post has a couple of minute discussion from Social Security Expert Tom Clark — THESE ARE IMPORTANT AND COMPLICATED- so take your time!
Call Spam Protection Update
In this second follow up post due to demand, comments and questions we further discuss options for additional protection, depending on the major service provider….
Capital Market Comments –
Tariff Talk Jitters
Depending on the day and the headline, Capital Market Participants in true bipolar fashion seem to either cheer with reckless abandonment and buy buy buy or head for the exits and sell sell sell….
Just by chance it was nice to run across a wonderful historical chart, here in this post, showing this Tariff talk is far from the first time…. maybe for some of us, but in reality we have been dealing with this for decades….(Century)
Have a Great Day – Talk to you at the end of September!
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.
www.jkfinancialinc.com
street-cents
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