Bristolians Discuss scams

Today we ask: Have you or someone you know been a victim of a scam and are they getting too hard to spot?

Transcript

00:00So have you or someone you know been a victim of a scam or you do think they're getting harder to spot?

00:07I can kind of spot them very easily actually because you get say emails as also a typo or misspelling

00:15or it comes across as unverified. I double check things.

00:20You know, I do have a background in cyber science, you know, I can spot them fairly easily.

00:26So have you or someone you know ever been scammed or do you think they're getting harder to spot?

00:32Definitely getting harder to spot because it's getting more sophisticated with the advent of things like AI.

00:39You can change so much about yourself. It's become a multinational industry.

00:44So I do know people that have been scammed and it's quite impressive what they're doing to be honest.

00:52It's not just that I'm Prince Aragaba from Nigeria and I need money to get home.

00:57It's moved on and that's slightly scary.