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DaveDCB
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Yeah I guess that’s their fair warning..proceed at your own risk!
Giles
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My wife works for a big engineering consultancy they got done for 25m dollars in china, their Hong Kong office transferred the amount of a number of days after receiving a video call from the big boss, the scammers used a live deep fake video call to get them to transfer 5m lumps into another account.Scum. We've had similar asking our accounts guy to transfer 10k to an account...
I personally know of one a few years ago where they got 14k from a company...email purportedly from a director to accounts lad asking for 14k urgently..
Went to a bank fraud seminar year or two back...women from police cyber crime agency started by saying this is this folks full time job to scam folk and their very good at it and getting better. Some of the stories she told were horrific..
Solicitors getting emails hacked and poor folk paying their deposits and even full amounts for a house into wrong account
All I'd say is rely on instinct and my policy is I'd rather piss a customer or supplier off for a day or two than get scammed...if it doesn't smell right back off.
They got on the network captured his video calls then used ai to create enough data to be able to fake him live on an internal video call! How bonkers is That !
Wasn’t an emailed video was a series of video phone calls with responsive chit chat etc
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Lancs Lad
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How do you protect against that?
Go old school.... f2F at the bank? Oh I forgot they closed them all 🫣
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DaveDCB
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I’d be on a plane for 25mil..
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6feetdown
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thrtgf35 anyone know this member?
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DaveDCB
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Scammer, he’s been posting odd posts and messaging me typical scam stuff!
TiltyShaun
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We have a friend that runs a computer software company. She regularly posts videos to her staff which have company updates. I was working there last year and she came out of her office one afternoon and should me a 5min video that AI had created of her giving a speech which AI had created from just a few prompts about content. It is very scary what it can do…….and it is apparently getting better at it on a daily basis!!
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6feetdown
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Yeah had a message
Furniss
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How are we going to protect ourselves if scammers have a tool like AI ? Can AI recognise itself ?
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bobthebuilder
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quite simple ,no more paying for kit and kaboodle unless face to face
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DaveDCB
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I really don’t understand why we need AI at all yeah I get that most people have zero intelligence anymore… but has no one watched terminator????? Spoiler - it doesn’t end well for humans!
pettsy
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Oh I don’t know, maybe Ai can teach us a thing or two…like this JCB design it came up with
Furniss
Well-known member
We need an ai so woke its harmless
Yeah but I was thinking about the deep fake videos etc and could we use ai to tell us if what we're watching is real
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bobthebuilder
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that is beyond my pay grade
Gecko
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From Linkedin (or not)
just found this in my junk folder (I don't have a Linkedin account)
just found this in my junk folder (I don't have a Linkedin account)
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6feetdown
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Scam
Gecko
Well-known member
Without a doubt. this one is not a risk to me as I don't have a Linkedin account.
However, other people here do, so if they've seen this post, there is less chance they will get caught.
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Giles
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Hi
I hope you're well.
We’re looking to carry out some building work later this year and would really value your expertise. Would you be able to provide a quote for the project?
If so, I’d be happy to send over our plans and drawings, which include a brief outline of the work we have in mind, ahead of our onsite meeting.
I’d appreciate your prompt response. Many thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Helen
Legit email on that name matches at a domain
No specifics no address or details
Seems dodgy to me haven’t replied to it
I hope you're well.
We’re looking to carry out some building work later this year and would really value your expertise. Would you be able to provide a quote for the project?
If so, I’d be happy to send over our plans and drawings, which include a brief outline of the work we have in mind, ahead of our onsite meeting.
I’d appreciate your prompt response. Many thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Helen
Legit email on that name matches at a domain
No specifics no address or details
Seems dodgy to me haven’t replied to it
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bobthebuilder
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no phone number ?
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