Marti DeLima

They might have your full social security number, your name, your date of birth.

And it works.

And that would work for many of us.

Yes.

And privacy is a myth.

Our information is out there and it is available to the highest bidder.

So we should expect that criminals will know our names.

They'll know our social security numbers.

They'll know our addresses.

They'll know our mother's maiden names.

And it just makes it so difficult to be able to parse what is real and what is fake.

I think that we're going to have AIs fighting AIs very soon.

The piano scam is just a recycling of the age-old Nigerian prince scam.

The premise was, I am Nigerian royalty and I have this big inheritance, but I need help moving it out of the country.

For some reason, I've selected you to help me and you get a huge proportion of this inheritance.

But first, you need to transfer money to cover some fee.

So scammers don't want to put a lot of effort and cost into chasing targets who aren't ultimately going to transfer them money, right?

So there's a huge cost to following up with more emails, more communication with would-be victims, but who would never actually go all the way.

If you pick something, like say you're a Nigerian prince,

that is so obviously a scam, the only people from a vast population that are going to fall into your net are the people who are the most susceptible, the people who haven't heard of the Nigerian Prince scam, right?