{"id":1774,"date":"2025-05-14T09:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:27:25","slug":"speaker-david-hickman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/14\/speaker-david-hickman\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker David Hickman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Huge thanks to our very own, David Hickman, for an incredibly insightful series of talks on navigating the tricky world of credit card and online scams! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f\ud83d\udcbb In 2025, scammers are more sophisticated than ever, using AI-powered phishing emails, convincing fake websites, and even impersonating loved ones or trusted organizations. David highlighted the importance of: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Being skeptical<\/strong>: If an offer seems too good to be true, or a message creates unusual urgency, take a moment to verify. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Protecting your info<\/strong>: Never share passwords, PINs, or one-time codes via unsolicited calls, texts, or emails. Banks and legitimate companies won&#8217;t ask for these directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Spotting fakes<\/strong>: Look closely at email addresses and website URLs for slight misspellings or unusual domains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Using strong, unique passwords<\/strong> and enabling two-factor authentication wherever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_122459-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"20250507 122459\" class=\"wp-image-1775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_122459-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_122459-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_122459-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_122459-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250507_122459-2048x1448.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">20250507 122459<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge thanks to our very own, David Hickman, for an incredibly insightful series of talks on navigating the tricky world of credit card and online scams! \ud83d\udee1\ufe0f\ud83d\udcbb In 2025, scammers are more sophisticated than ever, using AI-powered phishing emails, convincing fake websites, and even impersonating loved ones or trusted organizations. David highlighted the importance of: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"zakra_sidebar_layout":"customizer","zakra_remove_content_margin":false,"zakra_sidebar":"customizer","zakra_transparent_header":"customizer","zakra_logo":0,"zakra_main_header_style":"default","zakra_menu_item_color":"","zakra_menu_item_hover_color":"","zakra_menu_item_active_color":"","zakra_menu_active_style":"","zakra_page_header":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingsbayrotary.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}