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• 📌 Deep Fake Zoom Meeting Scams $25M from Hong Kong Company

  Every member of the meeting was fake except the victim

• 📺 Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That’s a Problem

  So-called deepfakes can be playful, but can also have real, damaging consequences for people’s lives.

• 📺 BBC newsreader 'speaks' languages he can’t

  By using artificial intelligence software, newsreadr Matthew Amroliwala suddenly appears to be speaking Spanish, Mandarin and Hindi

• 🌍 Go Viral Game

  Online game where user tries to create a fake news storm

• 📌 BBC Trending

  Reporting on tech and online events

• 📌 Google Fact Check Tools

  Search fact checks about a topic or person (includes image search)

• 📌 Reuters Fact Check

  Examining social media narratives and misinformation

• 🌍 Full Fact (fact checking site)

  Full Fact is a registered charity (no. 1158683) and a non-profit company (no. 06975984)

• ⚙️ Snopes

  Fact-checking site

• 🔊 The Alan MacMasters' toaster hoax

  The anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax about the inventor of the electrical toaster

• 📺 InstaTraders

  A BBC documentary investigating companies who claim you can make big money FX trading

• 📌 Binary Options (FCA)

  Find out how binary options work, how to avoid scams and what to do if you’re scammed

• 📌 UK schoolgirl who faced terror charges is ‘wake-up call about grooming

  Charges against Rhianan Rudd, then 15, were dropped after evidence proved she had been groomed online by rightwing extremists

• 🔊 What is Online Grooming

  Grooming is when someone seeks to build an emotional connection with a child to gain their trust for sexual purposes

• 📌 InternetMatters.Org: Grooming

  Online grooming facts & advice: Watch Expert Video

• 📌 15 Signs of a Catfisher – What to Do About It & How to Leave

  This article helps you discover if you are in a catfishing relationship and shows you the best way to handle yourself

• 📌 How to Spot a Catfisher

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• 📌 'County lines' drug gangs tracking children via social media (2019 article)

  Warnings on coercion and blackmailing over smartphones went unheeded, say experts, as child exploitation spirals

• 📌 What is Money Muling?

  Explanation of money muling

• 📌 I was a teenage 'money mule'

  BBC: Story of a young woman who got involved in illegal use of her bank account

• 📌 UK schoolgirl who faced terror charges is ‘wake-up call about grooming

  Charges against Rhianan Rudd, then 15, were dropped after evidence proved she had been groomed online by rightwing extremists

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt1): A lockdown creation

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt2): The Nazi YouTuber

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 📌 Tackling radicalisation – Q&A with psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos

  Dr Linda Papadopoulos is one of the most recognisable and well-respected psychologists working in the UK today

• 📱UK Police "Prevent" Programme: 0800 011 3764
• 📌 Protecting Children from Radicalisation

  It can be hard to know what to do if you're worried about the radicalisation of a child. NSPCC advice can help.

• 🔊 The Coming Storm (BBC)

  The Coming Storm is the story of events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Jan 6 2021

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 🔊 How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities

  "Reply All" from Gimlet

• 📌 Incels waging "war against women" and pose "emerging threat to children", study finds

  Users in the world's leading incel forum post about rape every 29 minutes and its rules were changed six months ago to accommodate paedophilia

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 📺 Lloyds Bank logged into using AI voice

  A security researcher was able to get past Lloyds Bank voice recognition using artificial intelligence

• 📌 How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

  Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. I proved it's possible to trick such systems with free or cheap AI-generated voices.

• 📺 Scam Interceptors

  Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives

• 📌 How to spot fraud

  Would you know if someone was trying to defraud you? Once you know the tactics fraudsters use and the signs to look out for, you have a better chance.

• 🔊 Most Convincing Scams of 2023

  Which magazine report of scams mid-way through last year

• ⏰ Which? Scam Alerts Service. Free Sign-up

  Which? is a magazine published by the non-profit Consumers' Association

• 🔊 The Missing Cryptoqueen (BBC)

  Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why?

• 📌 How to spot HMRC phone, text and email tax scams

  Listen to two real, threatening automated messages from fraudsters pretending to be from the HMRC

• 📌 Money Saving Expert: New warning issued over automated scam calls

  Consumers are being warned to look out for automated phone calls pretending to be from their bank or card company

• 🔊 Long Distance: A Reporter Visits the Scammer Who Called Him

  This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.

• 🔊 Long Distance Part II

  This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.

• 📌 How to spot an email scam

  10 tips to safeguard yourself from fraudsters trying to steal your personal information and bank details.

• 📌 Are you donating to a charity scammer?

  501 charity frauds were reported to Action Fraud between 1/11/22 and 31/10/23, totaling £2.7m

• 📌 Here's how to spot a fake crowdfunding page

  Jessica Ratty, Head of PR at Crowdfunding UK, explains how to stay alert when donating to campaigns online.

• 📌 Action Fraud - Charity donation fraud

  Fraudsters may claim to be raising money for a fake charity or impersonate a well-known charity.

• 📌 Charity on the Internet: How to identify scammers

  Scammers prey on people’s kindness. We tell you how to distinguish them from those who are truly in need.

• 📺 BBC Bitesize - Is Seeing Believing?

  On social media, it’s easy to be taken in by a dramatic videos or shocking stories. But not every image is real.

• 📌 How to spot and avoid “Hi Mum” message scams

  A “hi mum” message scam works by tricking the victim into thinking they’ve been contacted by the child

• 📺 Barclays TV Ad: Fraud Smart: The Imposter

  Illustrating someone impersonating a member of bank staff

• 📌 If a scammer calls and says your internet is about to be cut off, don't press '1'

  Broadband customers are being warned against a scam claiming there is a problem with their internet service

• 📌 How One Man Lost $1 Million To A Crypto ‘Super Scam’ Called Pig Butchering

  Pig butchering is a long-game financial con in which “pigs” are “butchered” by people convincing them to invest large sums in cryptocurrency-fueled trading platforms.

• 📺 Investigating Logan Paul's biggest scam.

  Exposing Online Scams

• 🔊 Bad Influencer: The Great Insta Con

  The shocking story of the rise and fall of one of Instagram’s first super-influencers

• 📌 Cyberbullying advice from Dr Linda PapadopoulosPare

  From the "Internet Matters" website

• 📌 Anti-Bullying Week

  ABA are official organisers of Anti-Bullying Week and Odd Socks Day in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Anti-Bullying Week 2023 will take place from Monday 13th - Friday 17th November

• 📺 LifeBabble: What is cyberbullying?

  The Lifebabblers talk about what it means to be a cyberbully

• 📺 Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?

  Film exploring the rise of deepfake porn, a new form of image-based sexual abuse where harmless images are turned into hardcore porn and used against victims, with devastating consequences

• 🌍 Web3 is going just great

  News on latest Web 3 disasters