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I know it was Apple my caller ID said so
This is why those incredibly obvious scam calls are so prevalent, you just have to hit one person like this for it all to be worth it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
One effect of the widespread availability of Caller ID spoofing is that, as AARP published in 2019, "you can no longer trust call ID."[2][3]
For fucks sake, this was old news when I was young, how can millionaires not know that kind of shit?
You don't dial the number that called you, you look up the company and call them and ask about the thing. And they'll tell you "no, you fucking dumbass, never give out your password."
Not you specifically, just the general "you"
"hello, you have reached The Apple that makes the phones and the computers. how may I help you"
I'm suspicious and think that whole part of the story might be fabricated so not to appear like a TOTAL idiot. I'm 50/50 on it, but I'd wager (real) dollars that he just looked on the call display and trusted it.
Caller ID spoofing is protected speech! MUH FREEDOMS!
-- American telecom lobbyists, probably
You can tell it only happens in countries with shit regulations because it's common in Japan and America.
love the irony of cryptobros holding up blockchain as the syncretic combination of future technology and hyper-individualist independence and the moment that dumb bullshit inevitably breaks down they make a direct appeal to the community for solidarity and collective action
:michael-laugh: "How could those people in 19th and 20th centuries fall for snake oil salesmen, it's so obvious!"
:wojak-nooo: "How could they steal my coins, the caller id said 'Apple'!"
Shit, this could solve my job search woes! Please, someone in the DPRK, get in touch with me! I'll scam crypto bros all day!
Called it back because I suspected fraud but it was an Apple number.
What did he do, hang up, dial the number on his call display to verify? I can picture the scammer looking at their own call display and seeing the same number that they just tried running a hustle on, picks it up:
"Hello this is Apple"
Ape: "Oh ok, it's legit!"
Hmm... I think this might be a scam.
Let me call this number back. If I ask them if this is a scam call, they legally have to tell me so because of the immutable laws of the free market.
Solemnly marking down another win for the capitalist free market.
NFT chumps are the best marks for scammers because if you're dumb enough to spend tens of thousands on a jpg of an ape you'll fall for anything.
Cryto skips the hardest step of any scam: Finding a mark both avaricious and impressionable enough for your scam to work on.
Seriously, most scams spend like 90% of their time just trying to find someone that they can scam. Crypto skips all that.
First you need a crypto wallet. Then you can get creative on how you want to scam people out of their money. Once the coin has been transferred, there's fuck all they can do to reverse it.
Then you can get creative on how you want to scam people out of their money.
lol yeah that's the hard part.
FYI there's like zero authentication built into public phone networks. You are who you say you are.
If you need to validate a caller, use a pre-trusted side channel and agree a rotating set of code words to speak before talking. But if you're at that level of op-sec then you wouldn't be using phone calls anyway.
Either PGP encrypted text exchanges (i.e. over email), self-hosted Matrix with E2E, or Signal, in that order.
You still need to trust that the person on the other end remains the same and isn’t compromised. That’s probably the harder problem to solve.
The whole point of two factor authentication is that you don't give anyone the code they send to your phone. My 100 year old grandmother probably wouldn't even fall for this.
Genius grift. Reminds me of right wingers busting their nose opening a can of beans and claiming antifa attacked them for gofundme funds. "I moved all my money to an alt account. Let's see if you rubes can replace it."
to offer them the CEO job when Tim Apple leaves, obviously. In recognition of their crypto excellence.
Same reason they need to notify you of a virus on your Windows PC.
I feel like I shouldn’t find this as funny as I do
