We've all seen those obvious deepfakes online picturing Trump or Musk getting arrested by the FBI. The latest AI tools are now so advanced that looking for the usual signs like extra digits on hands is no longer helpful when trying to spot them. The Atlantic's Lila Shroff experiments with photorealistic images of bank alerts, passports and tax forms and explains how deepfakes are coming for our bank accounts.

https://flip.it/Kv7S1A

#AI #Deepfakes #Cybersecurity #PersonalFinance #Scams

FTC reports $2.1B lost to social media scams in 2025, up 8× since 2020, with Facebook driving most losses via targeting, account abuse, and ads 🔐
Meta added scam warnings, detection tools, and takedowns, but centralized platforms still expose user data at scale, raising privacy and transparency risks ⚠️

🔗 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-americans-lost-over-21-billion-to-social-media-scams-in-2025/

#TechNews #FTC #Facebook #Meta #WhatsApp #Instagram #Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity #Scams #Data #Surveillance #Transparency #Socialmedia #Scam #Hacking

Computer-enabled crimes: virtual scams
https://negativepid.blog/computer-enabled-crimes-virtual-scams/

#cybercrime #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

Internet subcultures: scambaiters
https://negativepid.blog/internet-subcultures-scambaiters/

#scambaiters #scams #internetCultures #onlineGroups #onlineBehaviour #onlineSafety #behaviouralStudies #socialMedia #onlineForums #identity #negativepid

Social media crimes: Anna Sorokin
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-anna-sorokin/

#scams #financialScams #impersonation #annaSorokin #annaDelvey #eliteScams #cyberpsychology #psychology #influencers #humanBehaviour #socialMedia #identity #negativepid

Social media crimes: the Tinder Swindler
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-the-tinder-swindler/

#tinder #tinderSwindler #impersonation #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

Computer-enabled crimes: virtual scams
https://negativepid.blog/computer-enabled-crimes-virtual-scams/

#cybercrime #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

Snapchat sextortion rings
https://negativepid.blog/snapchat-sextortion-rings/

#cybercrime #extortion #sextortion #snapchat #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

The Twitter Bitcoin scam

https://negativepid.blog/the-twitter-bitcoin-scam/

#BarackObama #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #BillGates #Apple #twitter #bitcoin #crypto #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

Deepfake celebrity scams
https://negativepid.blog/deepfake-celebrity-scams/

#deepfakes #celebrities #celebrityScams #impersonation #scams #onlineScams #AI #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

"This is the story of how dealmaking by the Trump family's $3 billion crypto firm put it in uncomfortable proximity to alleged criminals sanctioned by the Trump government."

(tl;dr the #Trump family's in business with the chinese #mafia, which shouldn't surprise anyone who reads my feed but still nice to see such concrete confirmation)

https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/trump-crypto-venture-linked-to-firm-tied-to-sanctioned-figures-knzkphdlg

#worldLibertyFinancial #WLFI #crypto #trump #corruption #uspol #cambodia #princeGroup #ASEAN #thailand #myanmar #china #organizedCrime #scams #pigButchering

Alt...

Trump crypto venture linked to firm tied to sanctioned figures World Liberty Financial says checks were carried out before its ‘partnership’ with AB DAO, whose ‘flagship project’ had recently involved sanctioned men Chen Zhi, the Chinese-born Cambodian founder and chairman of the Prince Group, is subject to British and US sanctions Jack Adamovi¢ Davies | Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor Monday April 06 2026, 9.30pm, The Times

Friends, is this https://nxdomain.no/~peter/20260224_smtp_blast_to_imaginary_friends.txt what a successful campaign looks like?

(also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or for that matter https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4e) @nostarch #greyptrapping #spam #spamd #pf #packetfilter #greylisting #email #cybercrime #marketing #scams

"Lying in the bed of that bare hotel room, he remained entirely focused on the anxiety and excitement of his first real job interview, scheduled for the next day. He still suspected nothing." —Andy Greenberg for Wired https://www.wired.com/story/he-leaked-the-secrets-southeast-asian-scam-compound-then-had-to-get-out-alive/?src=longreads #scams #investigation #journalism #longreads

fascinating history of the rise and fall of one of the world's top scam lords operating out of #Cambodia, Prince Group CEO Chen Zhi from one of the incredibly brave Cambodian reporters on the ground who've been tracking the takeover of the country by Chinese organized crime, funded by crypto scams.

Zhi was just arrested and extradited (to china) and the US government seized $13 billion worth of his #bitcoin a few months ago (China got the man, US got the bitcoins).

#PrinceGroup and the massive #pigbutchering cyberscam slave compounds Chen Zhi operated are among the biggest users of #Tether's #stablecoin #USDT on Trump business partner #JustinSun's blockchain #Tron.

https://huangyan.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-chen-zhi

#ChenZhi #PrinceGroup #HuionePay #HuioneGuarantee #crypto #uspol #vietnam #Myanmar #infosec #scam #scams #fraud #corruption #asean #organizedcrime #PhnomPenh #HunSen #mafia #chineseMafia #Sihanoukville

this story about Benjamin Mauerberger, a south african #crypto bro and card carrying member of the chinese #mafia who made so much money via #pigbutchering and other crypto scams that he managed to co-opt a large part of #Thailand's government (to say nothing of #Cambodia and #Myanmar) is nuts.

if you’re wondering about the dark forces driving the current war between thailand and cambodia, this is one of those forces.

https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/americas-new-enemy-the-chinese-crypto-cartel-buying-states-to-fight-the-u-s-2/

#sapol #southafrica #whaleHunting #triads #organizedcrime #ChineseMafia #pigbutchering #ASEAN #scams #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #princeGroup #huione

Alt...

Tom Wright @TomWrightAsia "I outrank you," Ben Mauerberger told Thailand’s Finance Minister. After 40 stories & 50+ sources, we deliver the full 7,000-word feature on how one man -- armed with billions of stolen American savings -- captured a state.

"Rana Pratap and his home-grown start-up was the first time a scammer had approached me rather than the other way around. Things had come full circle. Someone had tried to scam me; I was now part of the story." —Snigdha Poonam for The Dial https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/india-scams-scamlands?src=longreads #scams #investigations #journalism #reporting #mysrery

@brian_greenberg except the seized bitcoins were probably not the proceeds of #scams, they were bitcoins stolen from #LuBian a long time ago that were currently held by the same guy running the scams.

#crypto #princegroup #Huione

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'The ads are a lucrative part of Facebook’s advertising revenue that, the project’s researchers and others say, has led the company to turn a blind eye to a flood of low-quality or deceptive content, spam and in some cases outright fraud on the platform.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/technology/facebooks-political-ads-deepfakes-scams.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q08.pGju.I8AbysbuMWhb&smid=url-share

@ClipHead tja, @heiseonline arbeitet hart daran mit #Scams in der #Werbung und #Bullshit die eigene #Reputation zu verbrennen…