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[AUS] help! My dad has fallen prey to a pig butchering scam but he doesn’t believe it
My sister and I have recently discovered that our dad (80) has fallen victim to a pig butchering scam via WhatsApp. The problem is he doesn’t believe that’s what’s happening. He got scammed a while ag…
I keep getting calls from a scam debt company 10x a day. It won’t stop how do I get it to stop?!?
It’s “united client solutions”. It calls 10x a day from different numbers with the same area code as me. I have already reported it to FTC. They used to call maybe a couple of times a week but now it’…
Authorities accuse trio of using AI deepfakes to defraud $129M from businesses
The middle-aged men allegedly targeted accounting staff at victim companies and impersonated CEOs and lawyers to trick victims into sending large wire transfers.
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CEO-spoofing scammers used AI to help steal more than $100 million, feds say
The U.S. is working on extraditing three suspects from Europe in a case involving more than $100 million in fraud from CEO impersonations.
Racially biased disinformation as structural violence: A discursive operations framework from Brazil
On March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco, a Black, queer city councilwoman from Rio de Janeiro, was assassinated. Within hours, false claims that she was “married to a drug trafficker” began circulating; fo…
Disinformation in practice: Threats, actors, mechanisms, and constraints according to practitioners
How do the practitioners charged with fighting disinformation understand the problem they are meant to solve? We surveyed 106 French practitioners across military, government, regulatory, civil-societ…
Scam Jobs and How to Tell If it's a Scam
There are many job-related scams. The scammers prey on people who are out of work and don't have much money. They lie and trick you into giving them money, or get you involved in illegal activities.…
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