By @edent · bank CyberSecurity phishing scam security · 8 comments · 500 words · read ~3,370 times.
You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department. "Yeah, right!" You think. Obvious scam, isn't it? You tell the caller to do unmentionable things to a goat. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · banking fraud money scam · 2 comments · 450 words · read ~358 times.
There's an incredibly distressing story in the BBC about a vulnerable elderly man who was conned out of his life savings. Fraud victim gets surprise £153,000 refund despite rules BBC News In the story, the heartless bank refused to refund the fraud victim due to an absurd technicality - the money was sent to a […]
Continue reading →By @edent · scam · 5 comments · 700 words · read ~235 times.
I've just finished watching the amazing documentary "Jobfished". It tells the story of a group of people who were conned into working for a "fake" company. You can read the news article - it's pretty depressing stuff. In the middle of a pandemic, people were asked to work for what looked like an established media […]
Continue reading →By @edent · blockchain crypto NaBloPoMo scam · 650 words · read ~294 times.
You've heard of the AI Winter, right? The period where funding for AI dried up due to products failing to meet their hype. I think we're now in Springtime For Crypto1 - named after the musical "Springtime for Hitler" from movie The Producers - where scams abound. You should take a couple of hours to […]
Continue reading →By @edent · phishing scam sms spam · 3 comments · 650 words · read ~666 times.
Earlier this week, my holiday was interrupted by a sophisticated SMS scam. Rude! Let's take a look at it. Let's take a look at all the ways we can tell it is a scam. Firstly, and most obviously, I am not a customer of Lloyds Bank! But these scammers send out to multiple people hoping […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fronk infinidash scam · 35 comments · 650 words · read ~73,046 times.
Many moons ago, when I was very young and you were even younger... London was in full bloom of tech-startups. I was running my own consultancy. Dashing from business to business, trying to pick up work as an expert in this new-fangled "Mobile Internet" thing. Some of the companies I worked with were great. Some […]
Continue reading →By @edent · crypto encryption fraud money scam signal · 5 comments · 850 words · read ~324 times.
Messaging app Signal is launching a payment service in the UK. This will allow users to send each other money cryptocurrency. Many people have written about why this is a daft idea. But they've mostly talked about why cryptocoins corrupt everything they touch. I want to talk about why this is a shitty idea from […]
Continue reading →By @edent · blockchain grift nft scam · 19 comments · 850 words · read ~17,299 times.
(A hastily written and grumpy post.) Another day, another Blockchain Bullshit project. https://twitter.com/tweet_nfts/status/1360896333100548097 Someone "claimed" one of my Tweets and added it to the Blockchain. I'm not particularly happy about that. Nor am I happy with the hoops I had to jump through to contact the company and remove my work. You can read the […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fraud phishing scam security twitter · 4 comments · 400 words · read ~1,265 times.
My mate Dom was moaning to his ISP on Twitter. They sent him a private message so they could look into his account. Blimey! Thankfully, that was a pretty brazen and inept attempt at phishing. Anyone asking for all your card details like that should set the alarm bells ringing. Of course, phishers often target […]
Continue reading →By @edent · call recording crypto scam · 2 comments · 300 words · read ~256 times.
Another day, another phone scam. Yesterday, I received a call from +442085044434 by someone trying to get me to "invest" in BitCoin and other Cryptocurrencies. I managed to drag the call out for 6 minutes - have a listen: The caller admits the trading and advice isn't regulated. That they don't need permission to make […]
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