Showing posts with label Fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fraud. Show all posts
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Cybersecurity: AI Dulls Our Critical Thinking and Enables Scammers to be More Effective (Microsoft Warned Us!)

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The rise of "AI" (mostly Large Language Models, or LLMs, like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and so on) does enable a lot of "p...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Cybersecurity: Hilarious (to me) Explanation for Attempted Verification Code Fraud

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One of the scams that had been around a while was the verification code scam/fraud . To make a long story short, scammers, who cannot get a ...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Truce with DB did not hold

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As expected, DB and partner have decided to interpret my question on how applicable RICO act is to MLM in the most negatively light possib...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

DB Update again... Except it ain't DB.

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Just when I thought DB and I reached a truce, his partner decided to play censor. Previously I've explained an incident where a commen...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Gifting Circles are ILLEGAL Ponzi Schemes!

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I've seen morons that claim "gifting circles" are legal because no returns are "expected". Well, the Federal Gover...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Does Massive Vulnerability to Pyramid Scheme Hint at Deeper Problems in India?

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Recently India had been rocked by a massive financial fraud known as "SpeakAsia". The company started almost two years ago and cla...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Baloney Detection Kit used on pseudo-MLM scams

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The Baloney Detection Kit by Michael Shermer I highlighted earlier can be applied to other types of baloney as well, not just pseudo-scienc...
Friday, June 3, 2011

How NOT to debate: assume other guy's insulting you

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Image via Wikipedia EDIT: Michael Shermer EDITOR'S NOTE: this is a rant, against a certain individual and a blog that doesn't eve...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Hey, we're on the SAME SIDE!

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Image via Wikipedia Recently, I seem to have gone into some sort of a "debate" on the merits of Amway with a guy called David Bre...
Monday, June 1, 2009

Business based on tricking people

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The only business that relies on tricking people is magicians. Anybody else, and we call them crooks, and put them in jail. Except the guys...