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ceejayoztoday at 2:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

At some point, the scam evolves to a live video of a gagged loved one being tortured. "Stop wasting my time or they lose another finger."

People aren't prepared for this shit.


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masfuertetoday at 5:13 PM

I know lots of old people who have instant access to quite significant sums of money and many of them just don't need it. I don't need it. I'd be happy to opt-in to, say, a three day wait period on new payment recipients, but my bank doesn't offer that.

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KludgeShySirtoday at 5:14 PM

"Are you prepared to bring them down to a total of 11 fingers?!?"

xp84today at 3:22 PM

Oh, man. That does seem likely. What a world. I wonder if eventually there won’t be a human in the loop, just a model trained to make money with a strategy like that, automatedly selecting victims and a person to be impersonated for each. Pre-render a few videos, place multiple calls in parallel. Basically a turnkey Docker container that takes a bitcoin address as a parameter and fills it with stolen money.

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