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"Online fraud is today’s most common crime. Victims are often told they are
foolish for falling for it, but fraudsters use psychological mechanisms to
infiltrate the defences of their targets, regardless of how intelligent they
are.
So it’s important to keep up with the latest scams and understand how they
work.
Recently, consumer protection magazine
Which? identified some of the most
convincing scams of 2023. These scams all have one thing in common – they
insidiously take advantage of people’s cognitive biases and psychological blind
spots.
They included “pig butchering” a way of fattening up victims with affection,
the missing person scam which involves posting fake content on social media
pages, the traditional PayPal scam, and a new scam called the “fake app alert”
in which malware is hidden on apps that look legitimate."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
