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Recently received a bank email stating that my balance was now $0. VERY official looking with logo and disclaimers. Just click here. Scam.
1 posted on 12/07/2023 3:03:33 PM PST by Libloather
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We will all be assigned a number type ID that will be imprinted on our skin or via implanted chip to prevent scams.


2 posted on 12/07/2023 3:10:56 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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I get between 3 and 13 scam emails a day. They are far from realistic. Imagine getting an Amazon email that had no graphics. They aren’t even trying. Maybe thats the point. It filters out the ones that would be harder to trick.


3 posted on 12/07/2023 3:16:42 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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“With AI, they “are able to… perfectly speak to a person to the point where they feel like the victim is kind of on the hook,”

Yeah, but the phone AI systems STILL can’t do anything remotely useful.


4 posted on 12/07/2023 3:18:12 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Yes, this "Generative AI" is so good it produces very authentic looking junk mail. Just have a look below. You might not believe it, but these are ALL junk. Hard to believe, huh?

I take advantage of all these free offers and the UPS and FedEx guys get tired of delivering all my free stuff.

And get that guy "Elon"! He is so busy making things that I just don't know how he finds time to sleep.


5 posted on 12/07/2023 3:31:24 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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I am finding more and more articles that had to be written by AI. Weird punctuation, word usage not quite right, repetition.

Between the search engines no longer returning anything that is not approved by “brought to you by Pfizer” and half the content being AI-generated, the Interwebs are becoming pretty much useless.


6 posted on 12/07/2023 3:36:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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Libloather wrote: “Recently received a bank email stating that my balance was now $0. VERY official looking with logo and disclaimers. Just click here. Scam.”

Every week I get an email that my master card with XXX credit union will be blocked if I don’t respond. I don’t have a master card and I don’t do business with XXX.


7 posted on 12/07/2023 3:50:47 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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Recently received a bank email stating that my balance was now $0. VERY official looking with logo and disclaimers. Just click here. Scam.

I fear that AI scams are going to become so good that even those of us who consider ourselves savvy about avoiding scammers are going to fall victim.

8 posted on 12/07/2023 5:13:24 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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The great AI scam resides, at times, in the White House.

If you go look at his nomination acceptance speech you will see the first of many.

And I am convinced he has more than one stand in, Not Joe’s.


10 posted on 12/07/2023 11:37:29 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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Bump


11 posted on 12/08/2023 6:27:04 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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I don’t answer any calls where I don’t recognize the number.

And if I get a text claiming it’s from the bank. I call the bank or go in inn person and talk to them.


13 posted on 12/08/2023 10:56:48 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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