In episode 4, Anne and Ryan unpack a pig-butchering scam via WhatsApp, the SEC X breach, and more Facebook scams.

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📒 Things we talk about in this episode 📒

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💸 How one man was a victim a shocking $1M Crypto Scam. What is pig-butchering, and how scammers are getting people to invest in these schemes.

👥 The viral FB posts about missing children, severe illness, and other emotional triggers that appeal to your caring and compassionate side. Often widely shared throughout communities, these posts are actually scams.

💬 More FB hacks where pages are threatened to be shut down via messenger... but is really a malicious hyperlink phishing for account information to access your account.

📉 The SEC's recent unauthorized X/Twitter takeover, and what happened to the stock market because of it.

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📒 Show Notes and Resources

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🖥️ Meme about screens: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1qK5WLtRkJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

❌ Hear how this man lost $1M in a 'pig butchering' crypto scam VIA https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/12/22/myanmar-pig-butchering-scams-watson-pkg-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn

👥 Millions of Facebook users warned to watch out for fake missing child alert – it’s actually a vicious scam https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/20875699/facebook-fake-missing-child-scam-warning/

👩‍⚖️ Beware of this Facebook page scam https://www.ky3.com/2023/10/12/your-side-beware-this-facebook-page-scam/

🛜 Lawmakers Are Out for Blood After a Hack of the SEC's X Account Causes Bitcoin Chaos https://www.wired.com/story/sec-x-account-hack-investigation/

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