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AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Post by j16sdiz »

Razengan wrote: post #45

Why not use AI to detect and avoid scams? As if people weren't scamming before AI, with the billions of dollars seized from the Chinese scam dungeons in Cambodia [0] where they had kidnapped people and tied them to computers (including a few deaths, and another wave of arrests just recently) Scammers gonna scam. At least if they can use AI for it then maybe they'll kidnap fewer people [0] https://news.ycombinator.com…

> Why not use AI to detect and avoid scams?

Why would the scammer go thru your detector?

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Post by karim79 »

gerdesj wrote: post #60
karim79 wrote: post #25

Here's an amazing study from Microsoft which I recall from back in the day (PDF): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... Edit: Recalled -> Recall

I had a bash with that paper. It is pure and utter tosh - I started with the ... start and swiftly moved to 6. Conclusion. "Thinking like an attacker is a skill rightly valued among defenders." and "Attacking as a business must identify targets, and this is easy only if we believe that attackers have solved a problem that has vexed multiple communities for decades." Bollocks!

How so? For me the point of the paper is the elimination of the ones who will not fall for such a scam in the first place. The title of the paper says it all.

Are we talking about the same thing?

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Post by ElProlactin »

gpt5 wrote: post #49
ElProlactin wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ethics, morals and whatever people call only exists if economy is stable. What is a "stable" economy? The US has the world's largest GDP, the highest nominal GDP per capita of any nation with a population over 10 million, the highest amount of investable and liquid private assets of any country in the world, more than a third of the world's millionaires, etc. And yet I think you'd have a hard time convincing most p…

Poor countries have a significantly higher rate of corruption, which means that the government itself is part of the crime syndications. It is true that we see correlation between richer countries and lower level of crimes - across all layers of society.

This really depends on how you define corruption.

Rich countries have created a definition that makes it a poor country thing, conveniently ignoring the type of corruption that is institutionalized (and in some cases even legalized) in many rich countries.

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

#64

Post by giancarlostoro »

bobajeff wrote: post #33
giancarlostoro wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dunno first time I have ever been on that domain, I think the direct link to the PDF gets you blacklisted, I can navigate the rest of the site just fine. The PDF is linked here, which you can get to this article from the front page: https://www.interpol.int/News-and-Events/News/2026/INTERPOL-...

Thanks, That worked.

The irony is it doesn't work for me no matter what I do now.

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Post by cjbgkagh »

scns wrote: post #53
gpt5 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Poor countries have a significantly higher rate of corruption, which means that the government itself is part of the crime syndications. It is true that we see correlation between richer countries and lower level of crimes - across all layers of society.

The current administration is giving them a run for the money. Might come out ahead in regards regards to corruption too. Number one.

I think what the Trump admin is doing is horribly corrupt and I hope the lot of them go to jail for that and other things, but in relative terms what Trump is doing is still less corrupt than what happens in many poor countries.

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Post by cjbgkagh »

ElProlactin wrote: post #63
gpt5 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Poor countries have a significantly higher rate of corruption, which means that the government itself is part of the crime syndications. It is true that we see correlation between richer countries and lower level of crimes - across all layers of society.

This really depends on how you define corruption. Rich countries have created a definition that makes it a poor country thing, conveniently ignoring the type of corruption that is institutionalized (and in some cases even legalized) in many rich countries.

The point of institutionalizing corruption is to reduce competition from competing corruption entities. Which is bad but not as bad as an endemically corrupt society.

I think it can be true that we have in effect far more corruption in the west than what is readily recognized at the same time that it’s true that we have less corruption than most other countries.

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Post by Razengan »

j16sdiz wrote: post #61
Razengan wrote: post #45

Why not use AI to detect and avoid scams? As if people weren't scamming before AI, with the billions of dollars seized from the Chinese scam dungeons in Cambodia [0] where they had kidnapped people and tied them to computers (including a few deaths, and another wave of arrests just recently) Scammers gonna scam. At least if they can use AI for it then maybe they'll kidnap fewer people [0] https://news.ycombinator.com…

> Why not use AI to detect and avoid scams? Why would the scammer go thru your detector?

How would the scammer communicate with you?

Phone? The network could spot sources exhibiting robocall patterns. AI could analyze live conversations and warn the recipient on certain patterns.

Instant messaging? There's spam and abuse screening built into most IMs already. AI could [locally/privately] analyze conversations.

Email? Ditto; analyze conversations, a bit deeper than basic junk mail filters already do.

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Post by edot »

gerdesj wrote: post #60
karim79 wrote: post #25

Here's an amazing study from Microsoft which I recall from back in the day (PDF): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... Edit: Recalled -> Recall

I had a bash with that paper. It is pure and utter tosh - I started with the ... start and swiftly moved to 6. Conclusion. "Thinking like an attacker is a skill rightly valued among defenders." and "Attacking as a business must identify targets, and this is easy only if we believe that attackers have solved a problem that has vexed multiple communities for decades." Bollocks!

Bash = tried Tosh = nonsense Bollocks = also nonsense

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

#69

Post by karim79 »

edot wrote: post #68
gerdesj wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a bash with that paper. It is pure and utter tosh - I started with the ... start and swiftly moved to 6. Conclusion. "Thinking like an attacker is a skill rightly valued among defenders." and "Attacking as a business must identify targets, and this is easy only if we believe that attackers have solved a problem that has vexed multiple communities for decades." Bollocks!

Bash = tried Tosh = nonsense Bollocks = also nonsense

Fair enough man. I didn't write the paper no need to hate on me sir.

Re: AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

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Post by Barbing »

karim79 wrote: post #69
edot wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bash = tried Tosh = nonsense Bollocks = also nonsense

Fair enough man. I didn't write the paper no need to hate on me sir.

(Parent’s helpfully defining the Britishisms for HN readers)
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