A wrong-number text or a dating-app match can turn into a request for money months later. Papa Don walks through recent police warnings and an investigation into AI dating profiles.

1. Money is the line. Never send money or give bank access to someone you only know online.

2. A balance on a screen isn't money in your pocket. If withdrawing needs another fee, stop.

3. Keep early chats on the dating platform, and tell someone you trust.

4. If it's already happened, contact your bank, keep the messages and report it. You're not to blame.

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Criminals who take over a real person's email, social media or WhatsApp account borrow all of that person's trust. Papa Don covers recent warnings and three habits that protect you.

1. Check through a second route. Call a number you already have before sending money or opening an unexpected file.
2. Go to the front door yourself. Open your calendar or files app directly instead of signing in through an invitation.
3. Lock your own front door. Use a passkey or two-step verification on your main email, and review linked WhatsApp devices.

This week: agree a call-back rule with family or your team, and turn on two-step verification.

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More people ask AI before they ask Google or a friend. Papa Don looks at Muck Rack's October 2026 "What Is AI Reading?" report, which found that more than 84% of the sources AI cited were earned or third-party sources, and that results varied across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity and between repeat tests. Then three steps for small business owners.

1. Write down five questions your customers really ask, and try them in two AI tools on more than one day.
2. Fix what's wrong on the sources AI cites: old addresses, wrong hours, services you no longer offer.
3. Put one genuinely useful answer to a common customer question on your own website.

This week: ask one AI tool "What can you tell me about" and then your business name, and read the answer carefully.

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Sources: Muck Rack, "What Is AI Reading?" October 2026 (https://muckrack.com/blog/what-is-ai-reading-october-2026) and the Oct 28, 2026 release (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/28/3390134/0/en/generative-pulse-earned-media-still-drives-more-than-84-of-ai-citations.html).

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Faster drafts don't automatically mean more money. Papa Don looks at four recent studies: Brookings' research on 25,000 Danish workers, a Nielsen Norman Group survey of 521 user experience professionals, ActivTrak's data on 9,140 workers, and a Federal Reserve survey of small employer firms, where 46% said they use AI tools but only 31% of respondents reported higher sales from it. Several sources are company-published and the findings are observational. Then three habits:

1. Count the whole job, including the checking and corrections, not just the draft.

2. Measure the result, not the busyness.

3. Fix the slow step in your process before you buy another tool.

This week: pick one task and time it twice, once your usual way and once with AI, counting every correction.

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Some attacks don't steal your password. They get your permission. Papa Don explains consent phishing, stolen sign-ins and fake IT-support calls, and why a password change alone may not fix it.

1. Before you click Allow, ask why the app needs your email or files.
2. Check the connected apps on your Google or Microsoft account and remove anything you don't recognise.
3. If something feels off, remove unknown apps and use your provider's account recovery steps, not just a password change.
4. A real sign-in screen doesn't mean it's a real request.

This week: review the connected apps on your main email account.

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