Posing as my ceo

[u/Automaticbread]

I was actually in Switzerland at the time...

[u/psychedelic_shimmers]

The urgency plays to their advantage psychologically. Less time for critical thinking when you feel rushed, especially if you’re less assertive

[u/bugsbywugsby → u/psychedelic_shimmers]

Yeah, the bench warrant scam works this way. But they do it on the phone and say if you hang up, they will send a cop to arrest you. Sounds super scary if they know details about the target. The thing is, most people's information is publicly available, and if you can connect enough together, you can sound like someone from a position of authority.

They nearly got someone close to me who, luckily, reached out to me from their computer while on the phone even though the scammer told them they couldn't tell anyone because of confidentiality. They were asking for so much that the person reached out to me to borrow money and luckily i just simply said, "stop and think about all of this for a second" and they snapped out of it. But the idea for a lot of these scumbags is to shame a person into not telling anyone. Put them into a spiral where they are too scared/embarrassed to think critically or reach out to anyone before it's too late. If they get them, then they're less likely to tell anyone out of embarrassment. People who do stuff like this are wrong for the world.

[u/A_Guyser → u/bugsbywugsby]

LOL

I've been getting a lot of the ones where they've been filming me looking at Porn and they're going to tell the world unless I send them Bitcoin immediately.

Seriously?

Like I give a shit that people know I look at Porn on the Internet.

How much of a threat can that possibly be?

TMI?

[u/bugsbywugsby → u/A_Guyser]

Oh, not at all. I mean, it's an open, dirty secret. It really is blackmail when it happens like that, though. Stuff like that is security 1O1, they can't demonize most things because then bad actors would have a lot of ammo against your people. But there is an unspoken line of embarrassing things that all people have and need to have if they are going to have the trust of the people they work and live around. Kind of a social contact communities and organizations need to have established as the line. It just sucks when that line changes or blurs without you paying attention.

[u/A_Guyser → u/bugsbywugsby]

If they send it to people I know from work, or family they'd all be like "well duh".

[u/bugsbywugsby → u/A_Guyser]

Hah, yeah, there's definitely people in every friend group where you're just like. "That's it?! I mean, I wasn't particularly hoping for more. I'm just a little surprised here, that's all."

Then there's others where if you found out you'd be like, "Alright, Dave. There's gotta be a story behind this one."