Better Bureau updates my 2021 study on gift card fraud
- Complaints to the BBB are up 50% this year over last
- Most involve online shopping schemes
McAfee releases first global scam message survey; finds people get an average of 12 fake messages every day by email, texts, or social media
- Messages people are most likely to click to open:
- You’ve won a prize!” – 25%
- Fake missed delivery, or delivery problem, notification – 20%
- Information about a purchase the recipient didn’t make – 22%
- Sign in and location verification messages – 20%
AI is definitely here: A friend of mine took some voice from a podcast I did, and a bit of video from an old press event, and came up with a video of me that has totally new statements from me that I never said. See it here. He used free software he found online.
