Bogdan Botezatu

He wouldn't use that language.

He wouldn't be recommending products.

He would not do that.

Probably we are going to need that, the upcoming versions of our technologies for fighting scams to include

deep knowledge about public people or the most prominent people in the world that are likely to fall victims of impersonation and create some sort of a, what would that person do, recommend, speak about, discuss publicly and so on.

That opens up a lot of opportunities because whenever you're misbehaving or do reckless things, you can say just, you know, it's an impersonation.

I'm not doing that normally.

Right.

My theory is that 90% of the scams are psychology and probably 10% technology and science.

That's because scamming people is actually hacking into their brain, right?

Pushing some buttons that generate emotions.

Every type of scam that we have analyzed has some sort of psychological cues that cyber criminals want to pick up.

Let's take failed package deliveries.

You become curious about where did the package come from and what might be in it.

That's enough for your brain to switch off

The rattling sound that says, hey, probably what that link you're going to follow will lead you to a phishing page, right?

The brain no longer listens to these warning signs.

You have romance camps where cyber criminals are exploiting and preying on the lonely.

They don't target people who are using technology.

They are targeting people who are feeling lonely.