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Daily podcast: No, You're Not Talking To Keanu Reeves Online...
#News#TechNews#Technology#Deepfake#Scams#Celebrities#Crime #podcast
Tim Chambers
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It’s a drop in the bucket, but it’s a nice drop.
Man accused of running Canada's largest grandparent scam network arrested in Quebec | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/gareth-west-arrested-1.7577819#Canada#Scams
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How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans. “In the face of some $44 billion a year in pig-butchering #scams conducted by Asian crime syndicates, U.S. banks have failed to prevent mass scale money laundering. | ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/pig-butchering-scam-cybercrime-us-banks-money-laundering
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Scam centers are spreading, and so is the human cost https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/01/interpol-human-trafficking-scam-centers/ #lawenforcement #cybercrime#INTERPOL #scams#News
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If you get an email from a big company saying you're a match for a job, and then asks you to log in using Facebook, you're staring down the barrel of a scam. https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2025/scammers-turn-to-fake-job-emails-and-fake-facebook-what-to-do #howto #news #online #internetsecurity #mcafee #phishing #scams
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Why the Do Not Call Registry doesn’t work https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/scams/2025/06/why-the-do-not-call-registry-doesnt-work #donotcallregistry #donotcall#Scams#News
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> New Trump Phone to cost $499 and all of your remaining dignity https://newsthump.com/2025/06/17/new-trump-phone-to-cost-499-and-all-of-your-remaining-dignity/
#BarelySatire #PendejoInChief#TacoTrump#GOP #PartyOfStupid #tech #phone #scams
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How and where to report an online scam https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/06/how-and-where-to-report-an-online-scam #onlinescsams #facebook #whatsapp#Canada #report#Scams#News #uk #us
"This is the most important lesson of #scams: that no matter how well-attuned you are to #cons, you can still be #conned. The belief that you are immune to a con actually makes you a mark. It's for that reason that I recount the tales of how I got #scammed – to help other people understand that being sophisticated, alert and even paranoid is no guarantee that you will be #safe."
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