Hacking Humans
Hacking Humans
N2K Networks
The trauma is multifactored.
30 minutes Posted Feb 14, 2019 at 6:00 am.
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On this Valentines Day edition of Hacking Humans, Joe and Dave examine romance scams, including the sad tale of woman bilked out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. There's a silly, non-murdering catch of the day, and Dave interviews Max Kilger from UTSA on the six motivations of bad actors.

Links to today's stories:

https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/17057-online-romance-scams-a-bbb-study-on-how-scammers-use-impersonation-blackmail-and-trickery-to-steal-from-unsuspecting-daters

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2015/online-dating-scam.html

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