{"id":18987,"date":"2022-05-09T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/05\/09\/news-12720\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T16:10:06","slug":"news-12720","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/05\/09\/news-12720\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering from romance scams with Cindy Liebes: Lock and Code S03E10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 15:26:54 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, many members of the public were introduced to the facets of a long-ignored crime in cyberspace: The romance scam. A flashy documentary called The Tinder Swindler had premiered on Netflix, and in it, filmmakers documented the efforts of one man to manipulate several women into giving him tens of thousands of dollars after sometimes convincing them that he was their one true love.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the documentary premiered, viewers judged the victims. Some viewers blamed the women in the documentary for falling for what looked, externally, like an obvious scam. Others asked how the women could be swept off their feet with so many red flags present? Others blamed the victims for not doing better research into the man, who had worked tirelessly to build fraudulent websites that claimed he was the son of a billionaire diamond miner.  <\/p>\n<p>But according to Cindy Liebes, Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist for Cybercrime Support Network, this public perception misses a lot, particularly in how skilled these scammers can be in their work. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;These people are professional criminals&#8230; and I think a lot of times, for those who may say, &#8216;Well I would never fall for this&#8217;\u2014they don&#8217;t realize how professional these people are.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><cite>Cindy Liebes, Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist for Cybercrime Support Network<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This week on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with Liebes about the facts behind romance scams: How prevalent they are, the types of damage they cause beyond financial ruin, and how you can spot a romance scam as it is happening. <\/p>\n<p>Tune in to hear all this and more on this week\u2019s Lock and Code podcast by Malwarebytes Labs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Recovering from romance scams with Cindy Liebes\" style=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>         <\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-8 embedded-video-alt\">\n<div class=\"embedded-video-alt-inner\">\n<div class=\"embedded-video-alt-text\">                   This video cannot be displayed because your <i>Functional Cookies<\/i> are currently disabled.<\/p>\n<p>                        To enable them, please visit our <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/privacy\/#how-we-collect-information\">privacy policy<\/a><\/i> and search for the Cookies section. 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You can switch the tab back to <i>&#8220;Active&#8221;<\/i> or disable by moving the tab to <i>&#8220;Inactive.&#8221;<\/i> Click <i>&#8220;Save Settings.&#8221;<\/i>             <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>You can also find us on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/lock-and-code\/id1500049667\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3VB1MCXNk76TSddNNZcDuo?si=b454MPzCTYWvvS5bOPdxcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2xvY2thbmRjb2RlL2ZlZWQueG1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a>, plus whatever preferred podcast platform you use. <\/p>\n<p><em>Show notes and credits:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Intro Music: &#8220;Spellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<br \/>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/<\/a><br \/>Outro Music: \u201cGod God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/podcast\/2022\/05\/recovering-from-romance-scams-with-cindy-liebes-lock-and-code-s03e10\/\">Recovering from romance scams with Cindy Liebes: Lock and Code S03E10<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/podcast\/2022\/05\/recovering-from-romance-scams-with-cindy-liebes-lock-and-code-s03e10\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 15:26:54 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week on Lock and Code, we speak with Cindy Liebes about the financial and emotional damage caused by romance scams and how to spot them.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/podcast\/2022\/05\/recovering-from-romance-scams-with-cindy-liebes-lock-and-code-s03e10\/\">Recovering from romance scams with Cindy Liebes: Lock and Code S03E10<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[26064,3287,5820,22873,26065],"class_list":["post-18987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-cybercrime-support-network","tag-netflix","tag-podcast","tag-romance-scam","tag-tinder-swindler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}