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ge96 4 hours ago

You don't need this, just say you're John from Microsoft as Jim Browning has shown

ghurtado 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Seriously.

To pretend that you need the advanced capabilities of an AI in order to trick older people by email is somewhere between ludicrous and clickbait.

My father in law just bought a car online this weekend on accident. And nobody was even trying to trick him.

There's a reason the Nigerian prince type stories are so low effort: you really don't need much more sophistication than that.

DalasNoin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You agree that AI is used for amplification by attackers? they interviewed people who had worked at scam factories who clarified that they used LLMs in their work.

ghurtado 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I do, of course. My point is that it is neither a tool unique to this scam nor an application of the tool that is particularly surprising.

In other words, if I can be a little histrionic, it seems to me like saying "using ELECTRICITY to scam old people".

MattGaiser 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How do you buy a car by accident? Like, put in a credit card and fully paid for one on Carvana or something?

ghurtado 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Very good guess: it was actually exactly that. Carvana shopping for a used car.

He clicked on something and got charged the downpayment of the car to his CC. He got his money back, but I'll never not be surprised by what some older people can manage to do online left to their own devices.

To you and I, it seems impossible. For Larry, it's just Saturday.

degamad 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It does not seem impossible to anyone who has watched someone use a computer for a few minutes... A bright green button from google pay saying "click here to secure your interest in this car" is easily mistaken to mean "save to my interested list" rather than "place a deposit on this".

We know how hard it is to even find the download button on a website: https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-spot-the-real-download-butt...

ghurtado 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You're right

We like to pretend that we are immune to that, but we've all made similar mistakes.

And there's an entire Internet of websites trying to trick us.