Victims speak out over ‘tsunami’ of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp
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#2Seems simple enough: if someone asks for money on Facebook/Instagram, just say no. Don't buy anything advertised there either.
Re: Victims speak out over ‘tsunami’ of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp
#3I think it's more like an omni-channel tsunami of fraud on all possible channels that has been gaining speed for a long time and appears to be increasing with an exponential growth rate.
The worst frauds still happen over phone and involve banking and old people.
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#4I think it's more like an omni-channel tsunami of fraud on all possible channels that has been gaining speed for a long time and appears to be increasing with an exponential growth rate. The worst frauds still happen over phone and involve banking and old people.
It certainly feels that way. Scams and fraud grow more common and brazen by the day.
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#5Seems simple enough: if someone asks for money on Facebook/Instagram, just say no. Don't buy anything advertised there either.
For the people who get fooled, it's not that simple. The landscape of apps and the way people use them change quick enough that there is always a significant non-zero number of people who aren't aware of which situations are safe and which aren't. Scammers will always show up in the places where people can be fooled, even if you suggest that someone completely disconnect from the internet.
Re: Victims speak out over ‘tsunami’ of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp
#6Seems simple enough: if someone asks for money on Facebook/Instagram, just say no. Don't buy anything advertised there either.
For the people who get fooled, it's not that simple. The landscape of apps and the way people use them change quick enough that there is always a significant non-zero number of people who aren't aware of which situations are safe and which aren't. Scammers will always show up in the places where people can be fooled, even if you suggest that someone completely disconnect from the internet.
Yea I hear of scams nowadays where people get a phone call and it's someone posing as a cop or ambulance worker and they know the name of one of your family members and try to scare you into thinking that something happened to them. I forget all the details but it's been happening, now just imagine you get a phone call from an AI carbon copy of your grandkids voice or something.
Re: Victims speak out over ‘tsunami’ of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp
#7I think it's more like an omni-channel tsunami of fraud on all possible channels that has been gaining speed for a long time and appears to be increasing with an exponential growth rate. The worst frauds still happen over phone and involve banking and old people.
It certainly feels that way. Scams and fraud grow more common and brazen by the day.
Well yeah. Because fraud is the victims fault and they have to fix it. At least in the view of our current laws.
If someone impersonates me, and uses my 'super secret' information to get a new credit card in my name, (like birthdate, DL number, or the number I have to put on any credit application, employment, etc) its now MY responsibility to correct my credit reports, contact people sending me to collections, file police reports, etc.
My state (OR) just this week lost drivers license info on every license in the state to to a hack on the MoveIT zero day. They recommend you check your credit reports for suspicious activity.
They just shoved responsibility for the mess of all our drivers licenses onto 3.5M of us to fix...
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#8I've been thinking for a while now, as we've had social media for many years already. What good has it brought to society? Scams, addiction, FOMO, cancel culture, gossip, missinformation, bullying, and the most self-centered generation in history, to name a few. All of it instantly and on a global scale. It's truly one the worst things that ever happened to society IMO.
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#9I think it's more like an omni-channel tsunami of fraud on all possible channels that has been gaining speed for a long time and appears to be increasing with an exponential growth rate. The worst frauds still happen over phone and involve banking and old people.
It certainly feels that way. Scams and fraud grow more common and brazen by the day.
Only going to get worse with conversational AIs and voice synthesis
Re: Victims speak out over ‘tsunami’ of fraud on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp
#10I've been thinking for a while now, as we've had social media for many years already. What good has it brought to society? Scams, addiction, FOMO, cancel culture, gossip, missinformation, bullying, and the most self-centered generation in history, to name a few. All of it instantly and on a global scale. It's truly one the worst things that ever happened to society IMO.
Many people who never could afford to call international family now speak and see each other daily. I also disagree that technology has made anyone more self-centered, but disagreeing with Socratic proclamations is as old as society itself.