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I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us. The fact that it was still going on, that was still going on, that was what made us so surprised and kind of challenged us to look at it once more.

That's Sharon Guz. He's senior manager for information security at Akamai.

The research we're discussing today is titled Chatbots, celebrities and victim retargeting,

why crypto giveaway scams are still so successful. It's not very common to have a crypto scam or a scam that is been running for over five years.

Well, let's go through it together here.

I mean, for folks who aren't familiar with how this scam works, can you walk us through it?

How does it begin?

Yeah, okay, so it's actually... it begin with a simple publication that is being

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