Speaker 1: All right. Step on up. Step on up. Try your luck. Who wants to try their luck today?
All right, you look like a smart couple to me. Can you answer me this? In 2018, account takeovers more than doubled in just two years. How much money did Americans lose in 2018? Was it two billion, three billion or $4 billion?
Speaker 2: Four billion seems like a lot. I’m going to guess two billion.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, you came in a little too low. It was four billion. You were only off by just a couple billion.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: That’s $4 billion stolen from the American people.
Speaker 2: It’s a lot of money.
Speaker 1: On average, how many hours do you think it took victims to deal with account takeover fraud and get their lives back on track? Was it four hours, eight hours or 15 hours?
Speaker 3: 15 hours.
Speaker 1: You got it.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Group: Wow.
Female: [crosstalk 00:00:55].
Speaker 3: 15 whole hours. That means Americans wasted over 50 million hours on identity fraud.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: That’s a lot of time and frustration spent on the phone on hold or filling up paperwork amid all the stress of uncertainty. No thanks. Right?
Speaker 3: No thanks.
Speaker 6: Right. No.
Male: Right.
Speaker 1: How many Americans suffered identity theft in 2018? Was it 14.4 million, 16.7 million or 18.5 million?
Speaker 8: That card.
Speaker 1: That one, 14.4 million?
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay. You got it. We can clearly see we’re learning about a big problem here.
Speaker 8: What do I win?
Speaker 1: What you really win is the power of information, my friend. It’s important to really know all the risks involved, so you can protect yourself. One other helpful tip is, if you’re a Discover card member, you can get Discover Identity Theft Protection for $15 a month.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 1: All right, who’s next? Step right up. Step right up. You? Is it you?
