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   Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 22:32:25 JST Kevin Beaumont

   Somebody has lost €830,000 after sending the money to Brad Pitt on social media, after ‘he’ posted that he was ill with these photos.

   The age of AI deepfakes is upon us /s

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 22:36:18 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @GossiTheDog I think I could genuinely do a better job in mspaint

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 22:36:20 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @GossiTheDog lmao, that's an embarrassingly poor photoshop job

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     waffles :gentoo: (cwalkpinoy@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 22:44:05 JST waffles :gentoo:

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     @GossiTheDog youtubers have been saying "don't make fun of people getting scammed because it's embarrassing to fall for it and degrading them will make them want to suffer in silence"
     9 times out of 10 I have a hard time not laughing at the ridiculous things they fall for though

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 22:50:37 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     Definitely help educate any vulnerable family in your life not to send any money to strangers, and that they should meet family members before giving them money.

     Every online community is infested with this stuff.

     That includes Mastodon, I had to block signups from the entire country of Nigeria on Cyberplace as unfortunately 99% of signups were romance scams - the profiles all follow the same format and operate in DMs.

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 08:40:18 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     Also, the cybersecurity industry should really really stop calling the victims of this stuff pig butchering. It’d be like doctors calling their patients coffin dodgers.

     People fall for scams. It’s also why y’all have jobs.

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:40:57 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     BBC News are running the "AI Brad Pitt" story as a frontpage headline. None of the pictures are generated by AI.