Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #phonescams, aggregated by home.social.
Australian company Apate has spent two years developing digital targets that engage phone scammers and aim to keep them talking while gathering information about their schemes.
They can also respond to messages and take part in online scam groups.
Apate founder and CEO Dali Kaafar says the platform has about 350,000 targets and has collected more than 250,000 pieces of information about scammers, including…
#Apate #PhoneScams #ArtificialIntelligence #ScamIntelligence
My wife has a new strategy for repeated scam calls that request a callback. She calls them back asking to be taken off their list not allowing them to talk about anything else. They hang up. She calls back. Lather, rinse, repeat. Today’s scammer took 4 callbacks before the callback number didn’t work. Not sure this will work with bots, but presumably even they will have some metric for callbacks without conversions.
Yesterday:
Me (answering phone): Hello?
Them: Silence
Me: ...
Them: Hey, it's Cattie, does your Medicare have parts A & B?
Me: ... Fuck off.
Today
Me (answering the phone): 'Lo? (I was woken up)
Them: Hello!
Me: ...
Them: ...
Me: Who's this?
Them: Hey, it's Daniel, how's your day going?
Me: <click>
I know no Catties or Daniels, especially ones with perfect AI voices.
PPA officer: There are fraud scenarios for everyone in Estonia | News https://www.byteseu.com/2036801/ #Estonia #Fraud #JaagupToompuu #PhoneScams
Estonian current law failing to combat cyber fraud effectively | News
Estonian law lags behind a surge in cybercrime, prosecutors and lawmakers say. In a recent high-profile case, Artur…
#Estonia #EE #Europe #Europa #EU #arturyermolayev #CyberCrime #CyberFraud #Eesti #estonia #hanneskelt #MadisTimpson #phonescams #ppa #prosecutor'soffice #Scams #Uudised
https://www.europesays.com/2977607/
https://www.europesays.com/2977607/ Estonian current law failing to combat cyber fraud effectively | News #ArturYermolayev #CyberCrime #CyberFraud #Eesti #estonia #HannesKelt #MadisTimpson #PhoneScams #ppa #Prosecutor'sOffice #Scams #Uudised
Phone Scams: Unpacking Evolving Tactics and Common Warning Signs
https://newsletter.tf/phone-scams-warning-signs-protection/
Be careful of phone calls or texts asking for money or personal details, as these could be scams.
#PhoneScams, #ScamAwareness, #StaySafe, #FraudPrevention, #ProtectYourself
How to Spot and Stop Phone Scams
Phone scams are happening more often. Scammers try to trick you into giving them money or your private information. Learn the signs of a scam and how to stay safe.
https://newsletter.tf/phone-scams-warning-signs-protection/
#PhoneScams, #ScamAwareness, #StaySafe, #FraudPrevention, #ProtectYourself
https://www.europesays.com/uk/736392/ Arcep launches wide-ranging probe into number spoofing #arcep #CallerId #CLISpoofing #EU #Europe #European #France #Fraud #FraudInvestigation #FraudManagement #NumberingPlan #PhoneScams
https://www.europesays.com/2748172/ Arcep launches wide-ranging probe into number spoofing #Arcep #CallerId #CLISpoofing #Europe #france #fraud #FraudInvestigation #FraudManagement #NumberingPlan #PhoneScams
Swedbank: Estonia seeing unprecedented fraud pressure | News https://www.byteseu.com/1652758/ #Banks #Estonia #Fraud #PhoneScams #swedbank
Wangiri Phone Scam Targets Mobile Users in Greece https://www.byteseu.com/1562689/ #Greece #PhoneScams
📱 Don’t trust caller ID — it can be spoofed.
Scammers can make it look like they’re calling from a trusted number. Always verify before sharing sensitive info.
👉 https://zurl.co/ErvAK
Suspicious Calls: Identify, Block Unknown Numbers, Prevent Phone Scams
#Callidentification #fraudprevention #phonescams #Suspiciouscalls #Unknownnumbers
https://blazetrends.com/suspicious-calls-identify-block-unknown-numbers-prevent-phone-scams/?fsp_sid=111130
New Android Malware Adds Fake Contacts to Legitimize Scam Calls
#Androidmalware #contactspoofing #cybersecuritythreats #phonescams #telecomfraud
https://blazetrends.com/new-android-malware-adds-fake-contacts-to-legitimize-scam-calls/?fsp_sid=44252
Europol Issues Public Alert: ‘We Will Never Call You’ as Phone and App Scams Surge https://thecyberexpress.com/europol-issues-warning-over-new-scam-tactics/ #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #cybersecurityawareness #TheCyberExpressNews #fakeappdownloads #CyberEssentials #publicawareness #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #spoofedemails #CyberHygiene #phonescams #CyberNews #fakeapps #Europol
First sentence of a phone call received today hinted at a real estate scam. So, indicated total lack of interest & promptly cut the call.
Recalled UK carrier O2's Daisy anti-scammer chatbot[1], but don't think it speaks Japanese.
Had thoughts about playing HAL9000's last song, but probably too short (and also not in Japanese🤷♂️):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WQ1tdxSqI
1. "Daisy the AI grandma is here to answer calls from scammers"
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/daisy-the-ai-granny-is-here-to-answer-calls-from-scammers-and-waste-their-time
#Japan #PhoneScams
Meet Daisy, the AI granny designed to waste scammers' time #ArtificialIntelligence #PhoneScams
https://betanews.com/2024/11/15/meet-daisy-the-ai-granny-designed-to-waste-scammers-time/
I'm reading that with ten seconds of recording of your voice a pubically available AI app can create a clone of your voice.
smh
And a poster on Mastodon has posted a tutorial on a website on how to do this.
smh
It'll take more than ten seconds of sample for AI to be able to clone your phrasing and working vocab over a wide range of contexts.
But scammers won't need a wide range of contexts - urgent, panicked or stressed will be be quite good enough thank you.
12 common #phonescams and how to avoid them
I am having wonderful success answering every call from an unknown number with "Thank you for contacting Microsoft Fraud Department. Agent Reese speaking. How may I help you?" Instant hang up.
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#Spam
#SpamCalls
#PhoneScams
Voice Cloning, the FTC competition and how to protect your loved ones
The FTC ran a competition to help detect audio that is cloned. Society is at risk from targeted attacks to extort money and to influence how people behave. It also helps you protect yourself from becoming the next victim if the next phone call you take is trying to scam you or your loved one.
https://medium.com/@chribonn/voice-cloning-the-ftc-competition-and-how-to-protect-your-loved-ones-2128d9bf6ea3
#VoiceCloning #Phishing #FTC #AI #scams #PhoneScams
Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims - Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto)
After scam... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1983390 #consumerfinancialprotectionbureau #imposterscams #paymentapps #emailscams #phonescams #textscams #bigbanks #policy #scams #zelle
Ars Technica: Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims https://arstechnica.com/?p=1983390 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #consumerfinancialprotectionbureau #imposterscams #paymentapps #emailscams #phonescams #textscams #bigbanks #Policy #scams #Zelle
Sometimes you have to deliver a kick in the ass WITH the love of Jesus. #scams #textscams #phonescams #sms #scammers #scammersgonnascam
Global News BC: Scam targets Kelowna residents, claiming grandchild in police custody https://globalnews.ca/news/9675321/scammer-kelowna-residents-grandchild-police-custody/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #grandchildinpolicecustody #elderlypeopletargeted #CentralOkanaganRCMP #Grandparentscam #KelownaRCMP #phonescams #Kelowna #Crime
Once again, my explanation to the "fraud centre"(*) pretending to be Amazon that the $1,400 foreign gift card purchase was for oral sex and my corresponding request that the criminal on the other end make good on the deal was not met with a positive response.
Anything I can do to waste these bugger's time and make their day a little more miserable is fair game.
* A perfectly accurate name BTW, just the reverse of what victims expect
The #phishing calls have resumed. They are likely targeting #NovaScotia now .
Just before Christmas they called every 4 minutes for Hours, hoping I'd pick-up when I saw a local number on the CallID. You can't trust #CallerID. I've had my home phone disconnected due to the repetition of these auto dialers.
Be Alert, and warn anyone who might be venerable, like your parents?
@richmurrills Help your elders by setting up their phones to only ring through if the number is in their contacts list. Add all their doctors and pharmacists to their contacts. Then set up a voicemail that says, “You’ve reached so-and-so. I don’t accept calls from anyone I don’t know. If you are a legitimate caller , please leave a message.”
So far, no scammer has tried to get past that message on my phone. #scams #elders #PhoneScams #Consumer
I used to spend hours talking to my mom. Now, some days I’m so lonely that I will spend an hour talking to a phone scammer. I’ve gotten pretty good at keeping them on the line. The current batch keeps trying to get me to buy a cruise to Mexico, and then I get 3 free trips to Hawaii. Lol. #phonescams #scambaiting
It looks like the "expensive phone ordered at amazon" scammers are using fake Irish numbers (+353) today.
Two so far today - the first ID'ing as +3531598525 hung up after a couple of seconds of silence, but the second claiming to be from +3532867338 had the whole voice message in slightly robotic, hard to pin down accent.
