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Linkedin+Glassdoor lets you target marks based on approximate salary.
Oh that's nice to know...but to what end?
So you don't waste time targeting the poors?
Beware of the perfect gentleman
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#23The woman calling the guy her fiance is pretty sad and a total failure on her parents' behalf. You dont get engaged with or attempt to marry someone you've never met in person.
According the article Geras' profile was used to attract older divorced & widowed women, so I doubt the parents had much input.
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#24For me, the most fascinating part is about women refusing to accept they've been scammed or wanting a relationship with the men whose pictures were stolen, even though some of them are gay. It is quite similar to cult followers like QAnon. They want to believe desperately on what is comforting discarding what is reasonable. My Brazilian family of Bolsonaro supporters camping in front of barracks demanding a coup-d'et…
"wanting a relationship with the men whose pictures were stolen"
This is the plot of 'Love Hard' with Jimmy O. Yang.
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#25So are the scammers already using deepfakes for this, or is that still to come? A video chat is already a pretty obvious thing to do in a long distance relationship, so it will be weird if they can't do it (building an orphanage in Africa is a pretty good excuse, but it won't last forever). If it's possible, they'll definitely want to be able to deepfake video chats.
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#26I think about what I would do if I were in the situation of these men. If possible, I wouldn't engage with scam victims at all. This sounds impossible though because there are those situations where your workplace security team or relatives get involved. The scary thing is how this scam can happen anywhere there is a chat function, such as Words With Friends.
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#27I have been constantly harrased by accounts with pretty girl pictures on LinkedIn, wish they could do something. Why did I know they are fake? One, I'm not handsome, neither do I work in those high status companies, why did they reach out to me? Two, they look more like models than software engineers. Completely bullshit.
I have noticed that a lot of tech recruiters are conventionally attractive women.
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Those are just the auditors; the audit firms send charismatic and attractive people around so that the people whose work they're checking will let their guard down.
Not really, the title is usually something like a tech consultant with completely BS educational and career experience. But I do agree it could be red team but they are annoying as hell. Actually lemme show you one: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/ellie-fang-411900257
That headshot is of a Taiwanese actress. You'd think they'd at least use a more believable headshot.
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#29I have been constantly harrased by accounts with pretty girl pictures on LinkedIn, wish they could do something. Why did I know they are fake? One, I'm not handsome, neither do I work in those high status companies, why did they reach out to me? Two, they look more like models than software engineers. Completely bullshit.
Lets face it. The "pretty girl profile" strategy works on a wide enough fraction of men that with probability close to 1 you can establish a legit connection to at least a few legit people at the company. Once you get that far, you can start getting recommendations for other people you "might know" and have enough of an "in" to get a glimpse at the entire org chart of the place. From there your a short jump away from being added to internal slack channels and whatever.
Not that I've ever done this. I always respect and obey the computer fraud and abuse act of 1986 vis a vis the section on unauthorized access to a computer system.
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