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As this scale of this fraud has grown, understanding and addressing the various and

evolving types of fraud schemes in this area has become increasingly critical. It's the Law Fair Podcast. I'm Justin Sherman,

contributing editor at Law Fair with Arun Rao, Deputy Assistant Attorney General

for the Civil Division's Consumer Protection Branch at the Department of Justice.

Technological advances, whether in the form of robocalls, text and emails, social media,

all of these have allowed fraudsters to refine their schemes to target victims

with a greater degree of precision and to increase their levels of sophistication.

Today we're talking about DOJ's consumer protection work,

cybercrime and elder fraud, data privacy, and Gen AI.

Why don't you start by telling us more about yourself?

How did your career as an attorney begin?

Well, first of all, Justin, thank you so much

for having me and for the opportunity to speak about the work of the

Consumer Protection Branch, particularly with respect to fraud and some of the rapid technological

changes we've seen.

In terms of my background, I graduated from

NYU Law School in 2001 and NYU is actually where I got bitten by the

prosecutorial bug in my third year of law school. I was a

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