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Guest Brandon Hoffman from Intel 471 is back sharing some research on business email compromise, Dave's got a story on buying collectable sneakers and how bots make that really hard to do, Joe has two stories with different spins on romance scams: one notes they are the most prevalent scams targeting older adults; and the second is about a group of Nigerian men preying on women through money scams, and our Catch of the Day comes from reddit user steev p (Steve P) about a benefit scam from an impersonated Facebook friend.
Links to stories:
Bots have made it nearly impossible to buy hyped up shoes. What if they could be stopped?
FTC warns of increase in romance scams, especially targeting older adults
Nigerian romance scam suspects targeted 100 women - FBI
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