Bonus: ‘Catphishing the Catphisher’ with David Etue
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, Bob sits down with David Etue, CEO of Nisos, The Managed Intelligence Company®, to discuss a fascinating study his team recently conducted to learn more about criminal online activity to better protect online users. For the study, “Catphishing the Catphisher,” researchers set up fake social media profiles and waited for criminals to connect in hopes of engaging in conversation. Although they expected the study to take several months, maybe even a year, Etue and his team were quite surprised with such quick results. Wait until you hear what happens.
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| 0:00.0 | When I'm with you I feel alive. You bring me happiness that no one else ever could. |
| 0:06.0 | You bring to me a love I've never known before. I really couldn't imagine what my life would be like without you. |
| 0:12.0 | You've touched my heart in wains so |
| 0:13.8 | no one ever could comprehend. I love being with you and I want to spend the rest of my |
| 0:18.1 | life with you. I am from the United States currently working here in Mexico as |
| 0:21.6 | a logger. I'll be back in two months time. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm from Copenhagen, Denmark, but moved to Wichita Falls, Texas. |
| 0:28.0 | And currently working in Romania... |
| 0:30.0 | I'll definitely pay you a visit when I'm done with my contract. |
| 0:32.6 | Meaning you would mean so much to me. |
| 0:34.8 | What work do you do? |
| 0:35.6 | I've been in Korea for eight months now. |
| 0:37.4 | Just a few weeks to a couple days |
| 0:39.2 | as I look forward to retirement and I'll be backside. |
| 0:42.1 | Can you assist me? Once I get to the States, I'll be backside. Can you assist me? |
| 0:43.0 | Once I get to the States, I'll pay you back. |
| 0:45.0 | How much can you afford? |
| 0:47.0 | He was asking how much I'm going to pay him and I don't know how much you can assist. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I don't know how much you can assist. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan, and this is a special bonus episode of our podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what it's like to be catfished to be targeted by a romance scam criminal? |
| 1:06.4 | Well today you're going to find out because our guest runs a security company that recently ran a fascinating study. They catfished the catfishers. |
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