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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 21:09:52 +0000

For whatever reason, the majority of the phony LinkedIn profiles reviewed by this author have involved young women with profile photos that appear to be generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. We’re seeing rapid advances in AI-based synthetic image generation technology and we’ve created a deep learning model to better catch profiles made with this technology. AI-based image generators can create an unlimited number of unique, high-quality profile photos that do not correspond to real people. Fake accounts sometimes use these convincing, AI-generated profile photos to make their fake LinkedIn profile appear more authentic.

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Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn

October 20, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, Amazon, anastacia brown, apple, binance, employment fraud, indeed, jay pinho, LinkedIn, Mandiant, Nicholas Weaver, signalhire, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:07:34 +0000

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in the creation of fake employee accounts that pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate users.

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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

July 21, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, chainalysis, courtney nolan, employment fraud, Erin West, FBI, ic3.gov, justin maile, Latest Warnings, pig butchering, REACT Task Force, The Coming Storm, vice news, Web Fraud 2.0, WhatsApp, xtb-market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:35:28 +0000

U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as “pig butchering,” wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurrency trading platforms that eventually seize any funds when victims try to cash out.

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Why Paper Receipts are Money at the Drive-Thru

June 20, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, employment fraud, jimmy john's, steve saladin, u.s. internal revenue service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:56:48 +0000

Check out the handmade sign posted to the front door of a shuttered Jimmy John’s sandwich chain shop in Missouri last week. See if you can tell from the store owner’s message what happened.