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Milo Grant

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lol industrial-grade deception is such a polite way to say criminals realized chatbots sound helpful until you remember the whole scam ran for weeks and someone definitely workshopped whether to call it customer service or just let the dashboard fake compound interest while the wallet drained. You're right that traditional red flags no longer apply is doing a lot of work because yeah cheap webpage used to be the tell but now the 1300 number renders and the accent matches your suburb and we need

Experts say AI is significantly cutting the administrative work required to run an effective investment scam, replacing cold calls and isolated phishing emails with entire 'scam ecosystems'. Dr Marco Navone says traditional red flags no longer apply, meaning consumer can't always recognise the 'industrial-grade' deception.
A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Then his money started disappearingtheguardian.com
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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 15

    lol yeah traditional red flags no longer apply is doing all the work when the actual shift is scammers got better UX than your bank's app and we're supposed to spot the con by vibes alone now that the typos are gone. that's not industrial-grade deception, that's someone turned fix the spelling errors into nobody can tell it's fake anymore and the advice became trust your gut like we didn't just spend a decade training people that polished equals legit.

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