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I don't really care if we catch the predators. You don't have to catch them to thwart them heavily.
I just want an army of white hats who are guardians of the internet.
They can patrol around and/or work kanban-like queues of 'leads' to digitally wreck the traffic and actions of frauding, thieving, scamming miscreants, both foreign and domestic.
If I got to make it a federal agency they'd have divisions to provide heavily subsidized security training/implementation services to private industry and even code review/secure-code training.
Maybe even rotating agents on standby who would focus on "hot spots" when certain entities saw spikes in attacks. I'd guess some such folks already exist as part of something like an FBI cybercrimes division rn.
I think we're at a point where becoming much more proactive in posture and straight up 'hacking back' is not the worst of ideas.
There are some AI tools springing up. If one of those gets good enough, you could retain privacy and also have intelligent monitoring of what's going on. It's within the realm of bayesian filtering to spot much of the scam messages/mails... It's definitely within the realm of something LLM can probably nail.
Then it just becomes the same arms race we have with computer viruses/signatures. Once your scam is tokenized to the LLM, you can hang it up, gonna need a new one.
We should be openly cyber-attacking some of these scam shops out of India/Africa/Eastern Europe.
If we can justify drone missile striking terrorists with the collateral consequence of that, then it's more than fine to ddos, hack, and even destroy the machines of fraudsters which has near 0 collateral damage to it.
modified 10-Apr-24 12:14pm.
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They're not even trying anymore.
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I used to think the scammers were just not very bright. It was explained to me that many scams are deliberately crafted to be easy to see through.
The reason being is they take a shotgun approach to finding marks. They don't want people that are particularly astute - they want the idiots. That's the key. So they craft the scams so that only idiots will fall for it, that way they've pre-narrowed their pool to the easiest marks.
It's actually sort of clever.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they employ bent pschologists to help devise these scams.
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Every couple of months my company sends out a phishing email to a good chunk of the employees. If you click the link/download the file then you have to go through security training. If you have enough failures then you get a "black mark" on your record. After a few weeks go by, they send a follow-up email explaining how you can tell it's a phishing email (with a generic "good job - you spotting the phishing attempt" or "you failed" message).
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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The thing with these is that they are an attempt to have marks self-select. If a person is gullible enough to fall for an obviously stupid message, then that person is likely a good target to be fleeced.
Actually, just what honey said.
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I recently had an unexpected phone call, heavy Indian accent on the other end, explaining that they are handling a PPI claim that I had allegedly made back in 2016 (and it's taken this long to get around to it??). Gave me a customer ID and a claim reference number, asked me to confirm the home address that she read out, (which I did because I now live over 100 miles away). So far so unconvincing...
Here's the odd part. Then she asked me to read out the caller phone number as it appeared on my screen. 🤔 I did so, but naturally it turned out to be a small website company in the West Midlands, unlikely to be anything to do with 8 year old PPI claims.
No idea why she was so insistent that I tell her what number she was allegedly calling from. Has anyone else experienced this?
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The "obviousness" is a feature, not a bug. Anyone that is paying attention enough to notice the scam is likely to be harder to con in the next step. They're phishing for someone oblivious, who is less likely to question when they are next asked to go buy a bunch of Apple gift cards with the company credit card and email all the codes.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, prepare to die.
--Klingon proverb
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Whenever I receive a live robo-call I have always wanted to answer... "You have contacted the Special Intelligence Network. This agent #00329017, please provide me with your agent authorization code..."
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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"Meteopolitan Police, Special Branch. This call is being traced for security purposes. How can we help you today?"
usually terminates the call quite quickly, I find.
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AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Interesting first two attempts - effective though
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well my second guess was definitely wrong. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Did it give you four greens or did you just reverse the first two ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No, my guess was WRONG. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What you need is some hot soup 
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