Web Renegades - 

What happens when you go shopping online? Hopefully, you have a good experience. It can be fun and exciting waiting for those purchases. 

What if you shopped on a website that had fantastic and inexpensive deals but you found out that the shopping site was using you to get information about you?

It's called malware... malicious software. Stealing your contacts list, getting credit card information, seeing your GPS location, getting your social security number, knowing what you've purchased, changing the settings on your phone, and going into any app you have on your phone to get even more intel on you.

Sounds creepy because it is.

Yes. Beware. You never know what is going on behind the scenes of certain websites. This case is about one shopping site in particular... temu. It's complicated but in the end, we detectives and "web renegades" get those nefarious bad actors locked up for their crimes against the global population. 

PLEASE! Don't go to the Temu website and don't download the app. And if you have it DELETE it NOW!

Question Everything! Do more research on Temu with the links below - What do you think?

Temu Superbowl commercial: https://youtu.be/5Od0aOse1wc?si=puns488tv9USUZMU 

Plenty of videos about Temu: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=temu 

Read articles about Temu:

Kim Komando/USA Today on Temu: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2023/04/20/delete-temu-app-cybersecurity-expert-advice/11667796002/ 

https://www.makeuseof.com/temu-scams-to-be-aware-of/ 

https://time.com/6243738/temu-app-complaints/ 

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/06/05/temu-shopping-app-scam-china-spyware/ 

https://6abc.com/temu-lawsuits-phone-app-better-business-bureau/14517447/ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65990529 

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/temu-class-action-lawsuit-illinois-data-privacy-concerns/ 

**I hope you find these audio episodes interesting and I encourage listeners to do some deep-dive research and go down rabbit holes on the stories told in these episodes. The "real truth" is there.

 **All in story form, these episodes all have truth within the story but please note that I took certain liberties with the names, people, places, and events in these stories.

Cheers,

Stephanie Lee