How phony job ads on Facebook and Telegram lure tech workers to scam compounds
Young Indonesians are increasingly falling for fraudulent job ads on Telegram, Facebook, and other social media and getting trafficked to scam farms in Southeast Asia, former scammers and cybersecurity experts told Rest of World. There, they learn to use AI-generated deepfakes, voice clones, large language models, and other technologies to con people into parting with their life savings.
“Thousands of jobs, usually IT-related ones, are circulated on social media, but they are fake,” Anis Hidayah...
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