I do think a "trusted friends" circle would be a better way to deal with these kinds of problems, because I know my friends would be available to help me and easier to reach than customer support.
Yeah, the voice was hers but it had a plain background... almost like a white wall which looked different from her other videos, and was about 10s in length.
Sorry if I was unclear, she had a personal email and after changing the instagram login details the account now belonged to a random gmail account, and the phone number changed too.
It's exactly the same situation with my friend. “I just invested $300 into Bitcoin and got $10,000 back. Gotta try it,” except the numbers are higher... but she actually says it in the video too.
I think that is good advice for someone who is more tech-savy and aware of the problem but I'm not sure the rest of the world is as well prepared, or what effect it might have on us or FB/IG reputation and engagement if it's becoming more automated and widespread.
Dude, when I was 16, 15 years ago, I remember doing a school essay about the risk of social media and saying "social media is not the culprit, it's us being so addicted to this new way of manipulating people around us into thinking we're "social credit"-worthy by uploading everything we can in a never ending race to the vacuum. We'll end up with what we deserve: we'll have traded our ability not to be lab monkeys clicking on buttons for the pleasure of our observers in exchange for the vain pleasure of sticking it to our ex/neighbour/psychotic mom/more beautiful colleague/whomever else insecure jealousy pushed us to addiction.
I feel we're just reaping the reward of our vacuity.
I've been on voice chat with her throughout the day trying to help her fix the problem. So I've seen it happen in real time, from the suspicious login in Nigeria to the deep-fake video that happened later.
It's so very hard to believe that it would be the notoriously unsophisticated Nigerians¹ pulling off high-end deepfakes. These guys weren't smart enough to use a proxy, but were supposedly smart enough to produce a good deepfake.
If this really happened, there must be some easy to use public tool they used. I'd really love to see the video.
¹ There's no way anyone else would log into a stolen account from a Nigerian IP.
I don't think that the Nigerian scammers are necessarily unsophisticated. Their scam emails intentionally contain enough red flags that any reasonably intelligent person will recognize the scam and not reply.
This way, the only replies they get are from people who are extremely gullible and/or desperate. It allows the scammers to avoid wasting time on targets that have a low probability of success.
That said, there are certainly plenty of stories about Nigerian scammers who are themselves not very bright or perceptive (is the 401Eater website still up and running?).
> I don't think that the Nigerian scammers are necessarily unsophisticated. Their scam emails intentionally contain enough red flags that any reasonably intelligent person will recognize the scam and not reply.
It is actually deliberate. It has been part of scams like that for decades
>I don't think that the Nigerian scammers are necessarily unsophisticated. Their scam emails intentionally contain enough red flags that any reasonably intelligent person will recognize the scam and not reply.
The "nigerian scams" are extremely unprofitable compared to even mildly sophisticated scams like BEC or basic craigslist scams. I think it's safe to say that they're unsophisticated.
>That said, there are certainly plenty of stories about Nigerian scammers who are themselves not very bright or perceptive (is the 401Eater website still up and running?).
Yeah, because the actually intelligent ones are generally running very different scams.
I think you can ask anyone working with threat intel about this. Nigeria has the least sophisticated cybercriminals in the world, they're very prolific but the tooling they use is hilariously bad.
I'm sure there are some exceptions, but those would probably be smart enough to conceal where they came from.
This isn't really surprising. Obviously Nigerian cybercriminals will be less sophisticated than the Russians for example, just look at their schools!
Right? Their prince was the first email scam of note, and probably one of the longest running ones at that. Also, you know VPN/VoIP numbers exist to help mask the identity/location of scammers. Just in case some of that might have slipped the mind of some peeps.
Nobody would choose to use a Nigerian VPN while logging into stolen accounts. This is really obvious.
> Their prince was the first email scam of note, and probably one of the longest running ones at that.
And all of the Nigerian prince spammers are incredibly unsophisticated. Anyone in the industry can tell you this, you can just look at the manner in which they send their emails.
In an ideal situation I'm sure that could work, but I'm not sure if law enforcement would have any more luck getting hold of instagram help & support in this case. I also don't really know much about deep-fakes yet and if they do fall under some kind of copyright law and how that would work across international borders. I think it's very new problem that might not have a clean solution yet.
I haven't even thought about them using the content across platforms now that they have the video samples already... but perhaps the followers are more important. You only really hear about celebrity deep-fakes on the news.
Sure, you can apply tailwind classes like `<div.w-32.h-32.rounded-full>` etc, but I'd definitely recommend using the built in styling as it is much more powerful (value interpolation, flexible modifiers etc).
Great! I am interested in trying out the language and learning more but there would be a lot less friction and mental confusion on my side if I can get started and apply tailwind classes and use something I'm familiar with.
