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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 ProllyInfamous »

usernametaken29 wrote: post #3

Coincidentally it’s also the biggest scam in the west. Wait till the IPO and the inevitable 80% stock drop of OpenAI ….

When the majority of a decades-long-scams' victims are Boomers getting hacked with AIs (clearing out your possibly-lesser inheritances)... does it still matter if the /u/usernametake29s of this world are still stuck thinking LLMs are "a scam" ? Still?

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This thought-provoker is 100% human-derived.

#They'reMadeOutOfWeights

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I didn't even realize how serious I was being, back in late 2022, when I was telling my Boomer friends (twice my age, but still closer than most "family") "make sure if you're grand-daugther calls 'begging for her life,' you need to ask the kidnappers something only she would know – and then *you can never ask that same question again (for verification, at least; ask whatever you want).

We are here.

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

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Post by cheriot »

While he was still living on his own, my grandfather struggled with people sending him scam letters in the mail. He sent a meaningful amount of money to obvious scams despite being a shrewd businessman all his life. AI will take these cons to another level.

Is there any way to help the elderly navigate this shift?

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

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Post by cheriot »

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

> By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.

There's less need to identify the most gullible when AI drops the incremental cost of responding closer to zero.

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

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Post by userbinator »

cheriot wrote: post #72

While he was still living on his own, my grandfather struggled with people sending him scam letters in the mail. He sent a meaningful amount of money to obvious scams despite being a shrewd businessman all his life. AI will take these cons to another level. Is there any way to help the elderly navigate this shift?

Is there any way to help the elderly navigate this shift?

"Ignore anyone asking you for money unless you know them and they do it in-person."

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

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Post by Barbing »

cortesoft wrote: post #55
spiderfarmer wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone who is as unpopular as Elon the cringelord Musk can convince the markets that Tesla is worth its current stock price, I doubt the AI bubble will burst.

People buying shares at a given price does not necessarily mean they believe the company is worth that much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

Can a person get their Roth IRA on a stoploss to make sure it’s everyone else left holding the bag? Asking for an antisocial friend

Ah with a decade or two time horizon it shouldn’t matter how hard it crashes if Zitron & Doctorow are proven right… rightttt!

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

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Post by karim79 »

Barbing wrote: post #70
karim79 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

As a British person I find this to be very very British.

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

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Post by Nition »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #52
spiderfarmer wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone who is as unpopular as Elon the cringelord Musk can convince the markets that Tesla is worth its current stock price, I doubt the AI bubble will burst.

It's already burst in South Korea when China showed they can make memory chips too. And it would have burst by now in the US if OpenAI and Anthropic were public.

The SK stock market is still up 55% since the start of this year.

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

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Post by UqWBcuFx6NV4r »

userbinator wrote: post #74
cheriot wrote: post #72

While he was still living on his own, my grandfather struggled with people sending him scam letters in the mail. He sent a meaningful amount of money to obvious scams despite being a shrewd businessman all his life. AI will take these cons to another level. Is there any way to help the elderly navigate this shift?

Is there any way to help the elderly navigate this shift? "Ignore anyone asking you for money unless you know them and they do it in-person."

That is completely impractical for most people.

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

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Post by Helloworldboy »

navs wrote: post #38

Having run a small social media SaaS for a while, the amount of AI bots (and I say AI bots because the comments and direct messages sent by them definitely read like AI), was staggering. I'm thankful for Cloudflare and I don't think I would have had the resources to deal with it any other way.

You’re on a social media site filled mostly with AI bots right now. Try saying something negative about China in any thread

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

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Post by aussieguy1234 »

Got a scam call yesterday morning. An American-ish accent, but quite rusty, I suspected they were using an AI voice changer.

They said "Am I speaking to ?". I did not answer that and instead asked what company they were calling from, then they immediately hung up.

I guess people who ask that initial question are disqualified for their scam, they're looking for more gullible folks.

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