Fraud Fighter
Appearances
Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
For the longest time, we have these images of somebody sitting crouched over their computer with a hoodie on, just kind of typing away in the middle of the night. And honestly, that's not what it is anymore.
Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
It's mind blowing to see the kind of infrastructure that's been built to facilitate scamming at scale. There are hundreds, if not thousands of scam centers all around the world. These are very savvy business people. These are organized criminal rings. And so once we understand the magnitude of this problem, we can protect people better.
Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
We need to have those awkward conversations around what do you do if you have text messages you don't recognize? What do you do if you start getting asked to send information that's more sensitive? Even my own father fell victim to a, thank goodness, a smaller dollar scam, but he fell victim and we have these conversations all the time.
Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
So we are all at risk and we all need to work together to protect each other.