I mean, I get the idea that it's easier to do this sort of thing at scale with this technology, but there are already entire sophisticated corporations overseas dedicated solely to phishing at scale already using ultra cheap labor so like ... Is anything really going to change other than those scam companies going out of business due to grassroots competition? I don't really see how this changes anything other than the labor budget of phishing companies.
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These sort of scams are always going after the technologically illiterate and the elderly. They don't need AI to make them more sophisticated, in fact making them more sophisticated might be counterproductive because then they'll waste time stringing people along for longer, only for them to get suspicious later on once the scam becomes obvious, because at some point it will become obvious, it's usually the point at which they try to get you to mail them cash.
So it's better for them to just be as blatant as possible to weed out the people who will never send them any money but might get strung along for a little while.
When something becomes substantially easier to do, the prevalence of it is going to increase substantially as well. So it's not that phishing is going to get any more complex or deceptive. It's that it's going to come from 10x+ more endpoints. And while you personally may feel immune, it's all a numbers game to the scammer. The more attacks they send out, the higher their success rate.
If you're already getting 10 scam calls and texts a day, imagine getting 100. If you're getting 100, imagine getting 1000.
I remember back when there was a time where when this occurred in the USA, it was the telephone company's responsibility to shut it down, for all the people getting all that spam from a particular source at once.
Then that was changed, sometime after Obama and before Biden.
Republished on March 16th
The orginal article got published back in Jan: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/01/03/new-gmail-outlook-apple-mail-warning-2025-hacking-nightmare-is-coming-true/
So... it's becoming truer, then?
becomining truthier