The time has come for us to make passwords for identifying each other…

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    1341 year ago

    This was common advice for parents in the 80s and 90s. If someone had to pick me up from school unexpectedly my parents gave them a code word to tell me to let me know it wasn’t a child abduction

    • @djmarcone
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      11 year ago

      according to the TV, child adoption is just an anti-semitic Qanon-adjacent conspiracy theory. No need for passwords! yay!

  • redcalcium
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    1 year ago

    Right now deepfakes doesn’t work well when the face is viewed from extreme angles, so you can ask them to slowly turn their face to the side or up/down as far as they can until the face is not visible. It also doesn’t work well when something obstruct the face, so ask them to put their hand in their face. It also can’t seem to render mouth right if you open it too wide, or stick out your tongue.

    I base this from a deepfake app I tried: https://github.com/s0md3v/roop . But as the tech improves, it might be able to handle those cases in the future.

    Edit: chance that the scammer use a live deepfake app like this one: https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive . It also supports using the Insight model which only need a single well lit photo to impersonate someone.

    • @[email protected]
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      251 year ago

      Right now deepfakes doesn’t work well when the face is viewed from extreme angles, so you can ask them to slowly turn their face to the side or up/down as far as they can until the face is not visible.

      or, you know, you can just pickup the phone and call them.

      • redcalcium
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        451 year ago

        You might not be aware of it, but in India (and SEA), using whatsapp video call is a lot more common than calling using your carrier’s phone service. No one would think twice when receiving a whatsapp video calls there.

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          i am not aware of that, no, but my point is not that the video call itself is suspicious. it is that if you have have a suspicion for whatever reason, normal cell call for a verification is far easier than doing some strange gymnastics the person above suggested (which may or may not work).

        • Bleeping Lobster
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          71 year ago

          I guess that also allows for some ‘benefit of the doubt’ from the point of view of the victim, it’s probably harder to spot artifacts that would be obvious on a TV or monitor screen when the image is v small, and any glitches could be due to the video stream / compression

          • redcalcium
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            41 year ago

            Two things really:

            1. Unlike in the US, unlimited calls and unlimited sms is not a thing in many countries where WhatsApp is popular. In contrast, WhatsApp calls and messages are free. This was quite significant, especially early on when WhatsApp starting to get popular during the J2ME / Symbian era.

            2. Now that everyone use it, if you don’t use it you’ll be that one weirdo who don’t use WhatsApp and people may choose to not contact you at all (especially if it’ll cost money to call you). Even businesses and banks have WhatsApp account these days, so not using WhatsApp will inconvenience you if you live where WhatsApp is dominant.

      • @kn33
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        101 year ago

        I had this attack tried on me. It was a video call from my friend’s Facebook account. If I didn’t know enough to be suspicious, I wouldn’t have answered. Luckily I have that friend on Signal, so I knew they wouldn’t have called me on Facebook asking for money. I tried calling on Signal, but they didn’t answer. They must’ve not had their phone on them. Calling their home phone worked, though, which is kind of a weird thought.

        • @IverCoder
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          11 year ago

          Their phone was probably offline at the moment.

          • @kn33
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            11 year ago

            Nah, they just leave it in another room sometimes and don’t care if they miss a call or notification.

  • FuglyDuck
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    621 year ago

    Remember, if it’s truly life threatening, the hospital is going to do the surgery and gouge you for it later.

    The time pressure is meant to prevent you from looking into it.

    Hang up, call them…. Don’t just hand money over the phone.use an excuse like calling your bank or something

  • gk99
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    491 year ago

    Fortunately, I hate videocalls and have no reason to use them, so if my friend videocalled me I’d ask what the fuck they were doing and immediately be suspicious.

    • Altima NEO
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      151 year ago

      Especially if they were suddenly asking you for money.

    • electromage
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      51 year ago

      My first thought would be “wtf? How did WhatsApp get installed” followed by throwing my phone in a lake.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    I’m in the US and have a well off friend who had his Facebook hacked. The bad actors sent messages to his friends asking to borrow $500 until tomorrow because his bank accounts were locked and he needed the cash. Someone who was messaged by the bad actors posted a screenshot of a deepfaked video call he received that caused him to fall for it. Wild times we live in!

    • @tallwookie
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      11 year ago

      I know someone who fell for a similar scam but it involved purchasing gift cards.

      • @djmarcone
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        11 year ago

        I routinely get emails from the owner of the company I work for asking me to kindly purchase several large gift cards and forward them and the receipt to him for prompt reimbursement.

        • @graphite
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          01 year ago

          asking me to kindly purchase several large gift cards

          kindly give me your money, thanks

  • @[email protected]
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    301 year ago

    No. This is how you avoid the problem.

    “Lemme call you back in 5 because <some excuse>”

    If you’d lend them money you’ll have their contact info. Go get a different phone and call them.

    • @DogsShouldRuleUs
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      111 year ago

      You’re not wrong but it’s going to take a long time for “that relative that is calling could be someone else” to be something that people actually think about. Simple to execute your solution but 99% of the people out there won’t even consider the possibility.

      “HI we are chased bank and we sent you 40k please give us the codes to Amazon gift cards to pay it back” still works on the elderly. This trick is going to wreak havok among old people.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Guy who scammed his friend out of $500: oh, no it totally wasn’t me man. There was a video? Weird it must have been a Randeep Fake

  • TheSpookiestUser
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    1 year ago

    Source on the image? Seems to be a snippet of a longer article.

    EDIT: looking up the text of the image gives me https://inshorts.com/m/en/news/kerala-man-loses-₹40000-as-video-call-from-friend-turns-out-to-be-deepfake-1689663557129, which is just the snipped text, but points at

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/deepfake-scammers-trick-indian-man-into-transferring-money-police-investigating-multi-million-rupee-scam-101689622291654-amp.html

    as the source. I get images get more engagement than links, but it’s important to have the source handy.

    • Rob T Firefly
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      131 year ago

      I was so hoping the crappy “hey, a text thing I want to share, let me take a fucking attributionless accessibility-poisoning screenshot and upload it like a psychopath instead of just copy/pasting the link to the text or the text itself like a decent human being” routine would die with Reddit. We should be better than that here.

      • TheSpookiestUser
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        81 year ago

        I even get why, images inherently get more eyes on them than articles through links, but the least we can do is include the source in the post body.

  • cheer
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t that what we’ve already been using gpg for? More communication sites should implement it

    • pjhenry1216
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      91 year ago

      Is it a user problem or platform problem that more services don’t implement some sort of OpenPGP solution? I mean to say, I absolutely agree this is a good idea, but is the obstacle the users or the services? I can see people getting really confused and not knowing to treat their private keys properly, etc. So are services afraid it’ll drive users away or are services afraid of it for some other reason?

      • cheer
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        41 year ago

        I feel like it’s kind of a mix of both. It’s definitely a hassle to use and check as a user, but I think part of the reason it is is because sites just treat it as an extra thing rather than integrate it into their service

  • N3Cr0
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    191 year ago

    Don’t deep fakes always look a little clunky?

    • Riskable
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      11 year ago

      When you’re 77 your eyes (and hearing and brain) don’t work as well as they use to. There’s a reason why old people are targeted for these kinds of scams.

  • Hup!
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    161 year ago

    Jokes on you scammers. Can’t deepfake me with a friend’s face if I don’t got any friends to deepfake.

  • @kn33
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    151 year ago

    I got one of these a few months ago. I could tell it was fake before I even answered, but I was curious so I pointed my own camera at a blank wall and answered. It was creepy to see my friend’s face (albeit one that was obviously fake if you knew what to look for) when I answered.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      How do these scamers know who our friends are? Also how are they able to get pictures or video from said friend to create the fake?

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          What about the voice? How it sounds like etc? Maybe from videos people post. Shits getting weird. Glad I deleted everything from FB long time ago. Actually looking back its crazy thay had all that info on my profile, pics and videos. Makes no sense now. Lots of people still dont care and have a lot of infro freely available online.

      • @kn33
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        11 year ago

        In my case, the friend’s facebook account was compromised. So they were able to get his pictures and call me from his account.

  • Rev. Layle
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    1 year ago

    “Hey, what’s wrong with Woofie?”

    Your friend is dead