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by Javantea_ 1220 days ago
In what way are we not ready? If you don't have the necessary critical reasoning skills to doubt Joe Rogan telling you about complete bullshit, no one needs technology to trick you into a scam. If you have critical reasoning skills, it's pretty hard to convince you to part with your money. Who exactly does this scam target?
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Say you have a child or close niece or nephew with insufficient latent opsec and a lot of public social posts from which an attacker can mine their voice and compromise their account, and they call you asking for urgent help...
This has been happening to a few relatives for about a year now. The niece calling for help from "jail" using an impersonated voice, it's quite impressive. The niece being impersonated has some shows, fairly small but enough to impersonate!
The video was created to highlight an extreme, where it should be very obvious that it was faked. However, an actual attack will be subtle.