Slithering Schemes: A New Social Media Bait and Switch Phenomenon

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#Episode 9

Joe Gray

Slithering Schemes: A New Social Media Bait and Switch Phenomenon

In this episode, we introduce a new identity fraud tactic conducted by malicious actors on social media.

There are few people more qualified to talk about this topic than Joe Gray.

Joe, a veteran of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force, is the Founder of The OSINTion, which provides online and in-person training about OSINT and social engineering.

By day, Joe is a Security Threat Hunting and Intelligence Engineer at Mercari.

He is also an esteemed author, with titles including The Essentials of Cybersecurity and his most recent book called, Practical Social Engineering. He is a great person to follow either on LinkedIn where he writes about all the INTs! GEOINT, IMINT, SOCMINT etc.

Topics discussed:

• How did Joe’s fear of snakes lead him to uncover a new online criminal activity
• Who is falling for this new tactic
• How to fool Facebook algorithms using images
• Why Joe loves K-pop fans fighting disinformation

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The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

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So do we...

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