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To: ig who wrote (4276)	7/2/2024 1:02:34 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) of 4764

Overall, a good discussion. Chris Olsen's approach to catching digital criminals by creating decoy victims is similar to Chris Hansen's of To Catch a Predator where he impersonated young boys online to catch molesters. It's also the approach of scambaiters on YouTube who pretend to be ditzy grandmothers wasting enormous amounts of time of scammers. One of the more insidious scams is the refund scam. (language) One of the disturbing points in the discussion is at 37 minutes about digitally synthesized voices of family members. For example, they're meant trick the victim to send immediate funds to rescue their kid or grandkid who has apparently called them in some emergency. That's creepy sci-fi stuff come to life. That led to a discussion on the deep-fake phenomenon which will make it harder to believe nearly anything digitally presented to the point of general mistrust. An effect of AI. Another point made was about net content needing to behind paywalls to make it prohibitively expensive for scammers to invade platforms in their trolling for victims. It might come to that. Point is, if it's free to you it's also wide open to predators to target you.

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