| ▲ | abirch 6 hours ago |
| A few years back, I would talk with scammers for a while to waste their time. Now I don't. LPT: Please have a codeword or phrase that you use with your loved ones so even if the scammers use your voice, they won't know the phrase. |
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| ▲ | Hackbraten 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > LPT: Please have a codeword or phrase that you use with your loved ones They keep refusing ideas like these on the grounds of them being “not stupid” and “able to see through such attempts immediately, 100% of the time” and “do you think we’re stupid?” |
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| ▲ | autoexec 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They might actually be a bit stupid, but maybe they'll do it if you tell them it's because you are worried that you would fall for a scammer impersonating them. That at least would let them keep their stupid pride. | |
| ▲ | pmarreck 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The article makes a point of explaining how the world-renowned expert on identifying deepfake scams can no longer pass his own tests. If an expert can't distinguish, it has absolutely nothing to do with being "stupid" or not. So send them that, maybe. If they are still stubborn about it, then thank them for contributing to the future funding of Scam the World With AI. | | | |
| ▲ | madaxe_again 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | You don’t even need this. You just ask “what did we do last Tuesday”. A scammer will hang up, even if the actual answer is “I haven’t seen you in two years”. |
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| ▲ | TomK32 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm getting a lot of calls recently and don't give them more than a Hello and whatever music, radio show or Tour de France broadcast I'm listening to. Sometimes they hang in there for half a minute. |
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| ▲ | xp84 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sometimes if I’m suspicious about the number now, I just answer and say nothing. A human will get confused after 5 seconds and say “Hello?Hello??” But the very shitty bots that usually call, just wait patiently for a long time for your hello, and don’t seem at all fazed by it. | | |
| ▲ | pavel_lishin 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You get actual humans calling you from unknown numbers? Lucky! I only ever get "Chase" from "Home Security Solutions" or whatever. | | |
| ▲ | xp84 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, recently I've had quite a few legitimate ones, mostly having to do with home renovations or other transactions. I like most am deeply unsatisfied with the archaic system though of a basically unchangeable 10-digit number granting permission for anyone to fill up my phone with messages and interrupt me with calls, and hate that I have to ever answer calls from a number I don't know. I really would like a mutual opt-in system, where you have to pre-establish consent before it's even possible to message or call you, but it seems impossible to get there from here. We can't even get the stupid cell phone companies to strongly enforce that caller ID isn't spoofed! |
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| ▲ | iron_ball 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The article mentions this strategy, and points out that when confronted with an emotional emergency situation, the victims simply might not remember to use the protocol. Not a bad idea, but not a brick wall. |
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| ▲ | dieselgate 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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