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Elevated number of scam calls with fraudulent caller ID from my bank today. Won't leave voicemail. Won't talk to the automatic screener.

If they have anything interesting to say, they'll send me a letter.

Never accept calls or emails from business or govt. you deal with. Call them yourself, at the number found on their website or paper documents.

The unpaid toll text scammers need to be more diligent about their craft. I just got a text from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation informing me that I have unpaid tolls that I need to address ASAP. Wisconsin doesn't have toll roads.

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@Andromxda @mollyim no it's not bs and fanboying @signalapp isn't going to change that.

If #Signal was secure it would be the #1 comms tool of organized crime...

Real professionals use #SelfHosting capable, fully #FLOSS'd solutions like #PGP/MIME & #XMPP+#OMEMO.

It's just me reading the room: Cuz #ComSec isn't done woth "JuSt UsE sIgNaL!" and everyone who claims so without pointing out #OpSec, #InfoSec & #ITsec is BSing hard.

  • The cold hard truth is that #TechLiteracy is irreplaceable and the only solution to it is to actually teach normies how to "get gud" with stuff like PGP.

Fortunatelty, @thunderbird and @tails_live / @tails / #Tails and many other tools make that easier than ever before.

#scam
What do documentaries like „The Tinder Swindler“ and „Con Mum“ teach us?

If someone comes into your life, lovebombs you… and later asks you for your money, because they have an emergency or something like that? Run! And block them, before they can scam you even more.

The Tinder Swindler
imdb.com/de/title/tt14992922/

Con Mum
imdb.com/de/title/tt35955855/

IMDbDer Tinder-Schwindler (2022) ⭐ 7.1 | Dokumentarfilm, Krimi1h 54m | 12
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@signalapp It's not #disinfo when one points out that you demand #PII aka. #PhoneNumbers from Users and that is literally a architectural vulnerability, alongside your #proprietary & #Centralized #Infrastructure.

Not to mention the lack of @torproject / #Tor support with an #OnionService or the willingness to fulfill #cyberfacist "Embargoes" or shilling a #Shitcoin #Scam named #MobileCoin!

  • #KYC is the illicit activity!!!

And don't get me started on the #cyberfacism that is #CloudAct.

  • If you were secure, criminals would've used your platform so hard, it would've been shutdown like #EncroChat and #SkyECC.

I may nit have allvthe.evidence yet, but #Signal stenches like #ANØM: #Honeypot-esque!

@walkinglampshade @jrredho @fj It's basic #InfoSec, really:

Thus #Signal fails at protevting #Journalists and theor sources because they do have that data and can be #subopena'd for it if they don't already provide #BulkSurveillance & #LawfulInterception #API|s to comply with #CloudAct. (Or are you guys so naive and believe @Mer__edith will risk dying of old age in jail for non-paying users?)

  • This entire "thread vector" just doesn't exist with #XMPP+#OMEMO nor #PGP/MIME!

And if you believe "this won't ne used/abused me because I'm from 'Murica!" and point at #ANØM as an example, then you really ignored all tze #Cyberfacism since 9/11…

Twitterthaddeus e. grugq on Twitter“I’m gonna tell you a secret about “logless VPNs” — they don’t exist. Noone is going to risk jail for your $5/mo https://t.co/Q2aOQJkG4g”