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Finding Fraudsters on the Open Web
They’re shifty fellows, alright! And that’s saying something coming from a lizard with a mood ring for an epidermis. The second you think you got these phishy fraudsters pegged, poof! Off to some shady corner of the web. Keeping up with them? Let’s just say it’s trickier than blending in at a kaleidoscope convention (ask…
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Scamming the Scammer
🚨 SPOILER ALERT: This article shares IoF (Indicators of Fraud). Yeah, I just made that up. They say knowledge is power. So when I got a random text from (470) 361-8476 asking, “Wendy [Not my real name], are you going to play golf this weekend?” they had no idea who they were dealing with. If…
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Let Me See Your Halo
Humans are irrational. Seriously, have you ever pondered the whole “halo effect” thing? So I’m digging my claws into this psychology book by Daniel Kahneman called Thinking Fast and Slow and growing more and more thankful to be a lizard. This halo effect appears to be some kind of cognitive bias which shapes human perceptions…
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