Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.   As the holiday season approaches it is a good time to be more aware of online scams and dangers.   You already know that if a deal sounds too good to be true…it almost certainly is.   But emails and text messages…seemingly from friends or loved ones can lead to trouble too.   Google Cybersecurity Expert Eugene Liderman many scammers are turning to AI..

“If you remember twenty years ago, you’d get that email scam with a Nigerian prince, but  you would look for the typos or key words there to be like…this is a scam, it has punctuation issues.  With AI, it doesn’t matter what language you are in, you can do flawless scripts and it will be undetectable in terms of like the traditional indicators that it’s a scam”

Think twice before you click and double check the origin.  More tips… head to safety.google.

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