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If you live in Louisiana, you get 3x more spam calls than a Californian (339/year vs 123/year).
The robocall geo tax: Scammers hit the Southeast due to weaker state laws & older carrier infra.
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Why did Upwork start charging freelancers to apply for jobs?
To kill spam. And it worked.
When it's free, spammers flood the zone. When it costs $2/application, they vanish. It's simple economics.
Your phone has the same problem. Scams are free to send.
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Hot take: The best blockchain use case isn't DeFi or NFTs.
It's making unknown senders stake a bit of refundable money before their calls / texts / DMs reach you.
@nano's feeless, instant transactions make this possible at scale. Here's how 🧵👇
New data: 57% of people worldwide were scammed in 2024.
$442 BILLION stolen.
73% thought they could spot scams.
They were wrong.
Here's why traditional security just died, and what replaces it 🧵
377 scam attempts per American per year.
That's more than 1 per day.
70% fell victim in 2024. $64.8B stolen!
The problem isn't just getting worse—AI is making it exponential.
New data from 46,000+ victims reveals the real cost 🧵
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Vibe-hacking is the new things. Don't believe us? See how @Reuters journalists easily use vibe-hacking to scam elderly adults here.
https://t.co/hnLcy2Jwiy
Ex Google CEO, Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) predicts your next full-time job will be managing a constant barrage of misinformation, spam, & scams.
He says to @PeterDiamandis that as AI tools get better, human natures prevails. Both "good people" & "evil people" will use them. 🤔
The utopian dream of sitting around doing poetry isn't happening.
The problem isn't the tech, it's the economics. When it costs nothing to knock on a million digital doors, the bad guys will always win. The only solution is to change the cost of entry.
#AttentionEconomy
3/ That’s why FynCom built the Trust Wall. Scammers stake money to message you. If it’s spam—you keep it. If it’s real—they get it back.
Spam doesn’t pay anymore.
🔗 Read the story: https://t.co/O9CFNtZ2OY
1/ A spouse lost $500,000 in a scam that started with “friendly advice” in a group chat.
The scammer wasn’t a hacker. It was AI, pretending to be a friend.
➡️ This is the future of fraud.
2/ You can’t filter your way out of this. AI makes scams too good. Detection fails.
The problem isn’t technical. It’s economic. Scams are cheap to send, costly to receive.