Scam alert! Those of you familiar with the phenomenon known as “deepfakes” probably associate them with weird videos and disinformation campaigns. But did you know that scammers are now using voice deepfakes to defraud people over the phone? One business lost over $240,000 in a deepfake voice scam.
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One Ring to Fool Them All
“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Evil forces threatening to grip the world in darkness are nothing new, but they’re still scary. Both the One Ring of Middle-earth and the one-ring scam of this earth have the power to pull people into their destructive orbits.
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Coming to a Neighborhood Near You: Call Spoofing
Remember the days of “Won’t you be my neighbor?”
Now thanks to call spoofing, you’re probably saying, “Wait, you’re not my neighbor?”
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Truecaller Insights: Phone scams cause Americans to lose $10.5 billion in last 12 months alone
For the first time, since we released our first edition of our Truecaller US spam & scam report, Americans have lost more than 10 billion dollars due to phone scams. In our fifth annual report we break down the impact of phone scams and spam in the US, and the numbers are shocking. Continue reading Truecaller Insights: Phone scams cause Americans to lose $10.5 billion in last 12 months alone