SCAMS EPIDEMIC POD SPECIAL I meet victim of a £73k deep fake of me Psychological ways the criminals suck u in Questioning Ofcom, Police & banks over UKs pitiful regulations & why so few get arrested! podcasts.APPLE.com/gb/podcast/t... open.SPOTIFY.com/show/6tsU1yc... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... - ThreadSky

martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com • 104 days ago

SCAMS EPIDEMIC POD SPECIAL
I meet victim of a £73k deep fake of me
Psychological ways the criminals suck u in Questioning Ofcom, Police & banks over UKs pitiful regulations & why so few get arrested!
https://podcasts.APPLE.com/gb/podcast/the-martin-lewis-podcast/id520802069
https://open.SPOTIFY.com/show/6tsU1ycENJzlaViEw0aAQq
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0k6k8jz

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rich-f21316.bsky.social•104 days ago

Just starting listening.
I've reported these scams featuring you and Richard branson to meta and got replies back saying they don't break their advertising policies.
Meta needs fines so large it bankrupts them!

loverofwhimsy.bsky.social•104 days ago

Re scams: Brilliant investigative reporter Shari Vahl’s series “5 Ways They Get You” starts this morning on Radio 4.

jakearchibald.com•104 days ago

You mentioned that hovering over a link is a way to see the true destination. Unfortunately this isn't the case. Here's a demo where the link text, hover, and actual destination are all different https://output.jsbin.com/zayepan/quiet

jakearchibald.com•104 days ago

The URL in the URL bar after you follow the link & the page loads is the only source of truth here. But unfortunately it's near impossible for humans to read & interpret.

jakearchibald.com•104 days ago

The design of URLs is poor for identifying ownership. In a URL like:

https://1️⃣.2️⃣.3️⃣.4️⃣/5️⃣.6️⃣.7️⃣?8️⃣.9️⃣

…ownership is defined by 4️⃣, then 3️⃣, then maybe 2️⃣ and maybe 1️⃣, depending on the values of 4️⃣ and 3️⃣.

None of the browsers are great at surfacing this. Some are better than others.

philbennett.bsky.social•103 days ago

And worse, on a mobile browser, when you touch and hold the link it previews the hover site. When you click open it takes you to the actual site.

sigurd1.bsky.social•103 days ago

As you’ve told us repeatedly your bank will never call you up to move money to another account end of

badautistic.bsky.social•104 days ago

📌

1-of-99.bsky.social•104 days ago

Banks make money from scams, until this changes it is not in banks interest to stop scams.

alansmith94.bsky.social•104 days ago

How?

1-of-99.bsky.social•104 days ago

They make money from every transaction, often tiny amounts but it all adds up

gaffys-antlers.bsky.social•104 days ago

Not really mate. Faster Payments (person to person bank transfer) are free for sender and receiver. Business transactions are usually chargeable, as is a Chaps transaction (often used for home buying and usually ~£25). Business can also pay a small fee to receive a bank transfer.

1-of-99.bsky.social•104 days ago

Agreed they charge no fees but they collect micro interest payments on each move

gaffys-antlers.bsky.social•104 days ago

I’m not entirely sure how that would work and I don’t know how you would define any interest as “micro interest”. It’s inherently micro as it’s usually calculated daily and applied monthly. Let’s agree to disagree unless you want to explain what you’re getting at 👍

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