Graduation day grifts
About this episode
The episode discusses various social engineering scams targeting recent graduates and the ongoing issues with scam calls and texts.
This week, hosts of N2K CyberWire Maria Varmazis and Dave Bittner alongside Joe Carrigan are discussing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with some follow up on Joe’s rental scam story, as listener Ben suggests the scammers may go the extra mile because they could keep collecting rent for months before anyone realizes the property was never theirs to rent out. Also, another listener writes in with some “Chook Psychology 101." Maria’s story is on scammers targeting recent college graduates with fake student loan relief offers, job scams, and rental listings designed to steal personal information, deposits, and money through high-pressure tactics. Joe’s story is on Congress pressuring major telecom companies to do more to stop the flood of scam calls and texts still reaching Americans despite billions already being blocked every year. Dave’s…
People in this episode
Hosts: Maria Varmazis, Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan
Topics covered
- social engineering scams
- phishing schemes
- criminal exploits
- student loan relief scams
- job scams
- scam calls
- banking scams
Keywords
- scams
- phishing
- social engineering
- student loans
- job scams
- telecom
- Android security
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Congress, Android 17
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