fraud

I'm just reading this story of a guy whose identity was stolen and the people opened up a bank account and credit card in his name and the bank can't tell what is genuine so is charging him to pay back the money. https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/ive-never-banked-hsbc-says-32569615 These banks...

How do you know you're talking to real people? They Deepfaked faces and voices. https://www.pcgamer.com/financial-worker-attends-company-meeting-with-ai-deepfakes-of-senior-colleagues-and-is-duped-into-transferring-the-scammers-dollar26-million/ I suppose it's an argument against...

https://www.science.org/content/article/star-marine-ecologist-committed-misconduct-university-says That the fraud occurred is of course bad but that it was caught shows the rigour of the scientific system. My concern is that climate change deniers will jump on this.

I've been watching Tinder Swindler and Dirty John looking for similar cases in the UK. Has anyone heard anything about this woman - Juliette D'Souza. I wouldn't be surprised if she had an international trail of some sort. I find confidence scammers so fascinating...

The other day I got the text below: I was expecting something and it was the sort of thing to be delivered by Hermes. I've checked on who-calls.me.uk and the number has been searched a few times (but is likely spoofed anyway). And I checked the package tracking and it said it was being...