Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

What's With Those Strange Texts We've Been Getting?

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What's With Those Strange Texts We've Been Getting? PLUS Hackers Using Deepfakes to Get Jobs Autonomous Taxis Block Intersection This New Law May Make Your Medical Care Cheaper and Better Even the NSA is Being Spied On Do You Use the Best Search Engine? What's the deal with those weird, wrong number texts. This is kind of a really big deal, frankly, when we get right down to it, because we are getting scammed, there's even a special name for these types of scams. and I don't even know what to start with this, cuz it's absolutely crazy. [Following is an Automated Transcript] [00:00:18] This is I'll follow on to a scam. Again, if you've been on the internet for a while, you're familiar with the Nigerian scam. You remember that? where there was a Nigerian prince. And of course there's a lot of variations of this scam, but he needed to get his money out of Nigeria. And the only way he could really do that is by using a us bank account. [00:00:43] And, you know, if you had a us bank account, you could really hel