The time has come for us to make passwords for identifying each other…
Remember, if it’s truly life threatening, the hospital is going to do the surgery and gouge you for it later.
The time pressure is meant to prevent you from looking into it.
Hang up, call them…. Don’t just hand money over the phone.use an excuse like calling your bank or something
Fortunately, I hate videocalls and have no reason to use them, so if my friend videocalled me I’d ask what the fuck they were doing and immediately be suspicious.
I’m in the US and have a well off friend who had his Facebook hacked. The bad actors sent messages to his friends asking to borrow $500 until tomorrow because his bank accounts were locked and he needed the cash. Someone who was messaged by the bad actors posted a screenshot of a deepfaked video call he received that caused him to fall for it. Wild times we live in!
I know someone who fell for a similar scam but it involved purchasing gift cards.
I routinely get emails from the owner of the company I work for asking me to kindly purchase several large gift cards and forward them and the receipt to him for prompt reimbursement.
asking me to kindly purchase several large gift cards
kindly give me your money, thanks
Source on the image? Seems to be a snippet of a longer article.
EDIT: looking up the text of the image gives me https://inshorts.com/m/en/news/kerala-man-loses-₹40000-as-video-call-from-friend-turns-out-to-be-deepfake-1689663557129, which is just the snipped text, but points at
as the source. I get images get more engagement than links, but it’s important to have the source handy.
I was so hoping the crappy “hey, a text thing I want to share, let me take a fucking attributionless accessibility-poisoning screenshot and upload it like a psychopath instead of just copy/pasting the link to the text or the text itself like a decent human being” routine would die with Reddit. We should be better than that here.
I even get why, images inherently get more eyes on them than articles through links, but the least we can do is include the source in the post body.
Jokes on you scammers. Can’t deepfake me with a friend’s face if I don’t got any friends to deepfake.
Don’t deep fakes always look a little clunky?
They could blame a bad connection.
When you’re 77 your eyes (and hearing and brain) don’t work as well as they use to. There’s a reason why old people are targeted for these kinds of scams.
I got one of these a few months ago. I could tell it was fake before I even answered, but I was curious so I pointed my own camera at a blank wall and answered. It was creepy to see my friend’s face (albeit one that was obviously fake if you knew what to look for) when I answered.
Isn’t that what we’ve already been using gpg for? More communication sites should implement it
Gr. It’s not the technology that pisses me off. It’s people forgetting the fundamental rule that everything on the internet is fake until definitively proven otherwise.
Even after proven, nothing digital should ever rise to 100% trust. Under any circumstances whatsoever. 99% is fine. 100% is never.
Hell, even real life inputs from your eyes don’t get 100% trust. People are well aware their eyes can play tricks. But somehow go digital and people start trusting, even though digital is easier to corrupt than irl information in every possible way.
“Hello dear, it’s your mother. Haven’t heard from you in a while.”
“Nice try scammer, go to hell!!”
Easy solution: Never give money that’s requested like this. Give the money in person or not at all.
If the friend doesn’t like it they can go to the bank. If they don’t like my terms they can pay interest to them.
Sorry people, I’m not your fuckin loan officer and scams are just too easy.
With deepfake technology being so advanced nowadays, how will we ever know if the person we are talking with on the internet is who they say they are?
You have to establish a shared password that only you two know, this should be done in person, face to face. Someone needs to make an app for storing passwords for people as opposed to websites. I suppose contact lists could store the password field.
Dude had too much money. Simple.
