AI Scams

Today, Doug Pike interviews Yashin Manraj about AI scams.

Episode Transcript

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All right, Welcome to Wednesday, hopefully and probably a little
drier than Monday or Tuesday or maybe not. Forecast through
the rest of the week and through the weekend. By
the way, our port Land in let's call it sixty
seventy percent chance of rain right through. Water on the

(01:08):
ground gets evaporated all morning long. You can just feel
it when you walk outside. You it just it hangs
on you like a like a wet towel. Clouds get
darker as the day wears on, and by afternoon they're
too heavy, they can't hold the water anymore, and it falls. Isolated.
Showers become scattered showers, they become downpours. In some areas,

(01:34):
and then six thirty seven, eight o'clock. It all fades
away sometime after sunset, and we start the process all over,
same thing the next morning, and the next and the
next For the last couple of weeks. I'm quite weary
of it, to be honest, but like all of us,
I have no alternative but to plod forward and just

(01:55):
be glad I don't live in Portland. There actually is
some decent fishing and hunting up there in the north west,
but it's not good enough to offset the crazies and
the just the goofy stuff that goes on up there.
By the way, the temperatures, thanks to these showers and whatnot,
have been considerably cooler. It was in the seventies, the

(02:16):
mid seventies yesterday afternoon. That doesn't happen much in July,
and I was quite happy to be outside and not
just not just be drenched in sweat. After five minutes
moving on, the markets reacted pretty favorably to sunrise today,
all four indicators solidly up, and as a bonus, oil

(02:37):
down a few dimes. I think it was sixty something.
As long as it's sixty something, that's reasonable. Once it
gets into seventies and eighties as it, and boy gosh,
everybody in this audience, I would imagine, can remember when
oil topped one hundred and then one hundred and ten,
and I believe it got up to about one hundred
and twenty dollars a barrel at one point. Gasoline even

(03:01):
here well in excess of four dollars a gallon, which
is just outrageous and wasn't necessary. Hopefully we'll get our
strategic reserves refilled. Hopefully, well we'll regain energy independence, which
we had five years ago, and maybe get on about
taking care of business and doing other good things in

(03:22):
our country. Gold actually came down a couple of bucks early,
but headed back north a little while ago, and even
more recently, just about an hour ago, the algorithms for
those four indicators that like to take quick profits did
some profit taking and erase some of that early gain.
But everything was still green, just by a little bit

(03:44):
less than it was, and it might might tip the
other way before the end of the trading day, but
I don't think there's gonna be anything worth an alarm.
I did see a story this morning. If you're wondering
about housing prices in the housing market, that housing contracts
went up about ten percent this past week, just on

(04:08):
the on the well, there was actually a slight drop
in the thirty year mortgage rate, but just on the
the feeling that I believe most Americans have again that
we're going to see a couple of rate cuts, and
as many as three by the end of the year.
According to some stories, I two would be good, and
I've actually heard that the first one might even be

(04:29):
a full point. And if that were the case, uh,
there would be a lot more activity in that area,
a lot more buying, a lot more selling, and everybody
happy to make a little bit of money. The disaster
in the Hill Country still and probably will be for
a while at least the top story in Texas and

(04:51):
likely most of the country, and forecasts in many parts
of Texas unfortunately say that we could see a little
bit more flooding before we get out of this mess.
New Mexico right now dealing with raging rivers of its
own today. Just a little while ago, I saw video
of a home being swept down river by a really

(05:13):
swollen torrent of fast moving water. To watch someone's home
float away and become destroyed in the process, it's not
like they just not like they're sitting on a rubber raft.
These big, complete homes. When they hit the water, stuff
starts falling apart. Nails and screws aren't designed to hold that,

(05:38):
and it was just gut wrenching to watch that stuff.
It's really really said. Nature can just be so brutally cruel.
Sometimes I wish, like all of us do, that we
could just take control of the rain and the heat
and the cold and the droughts. But we can't. We can't.
All we can do is is deal with the now,

(06:02):
then try to recover from what happens, and then learn
something from it in the aftermath so that we can
we can do better next time. And nobody knows when
next time is going to be. It may not flood
up there for another one hundred years. It may flood
sooner than that. I certainly hope it doesn't. Along the

(06:24):
Guadeloupe right now, more than one hundred people confirm dead
and more than one hundred and fifty still missing. Sadly,
the chances of anybody surviving for six days or longer
in the aftermath of that flood grow slimmer by the minute.
But that entire riverbed as we speak, is being searched
patiently and methodically by thousands of people who believe in

(06:48):
miracles and who want, how however it happens, who want
to provide the families involved up there with closure of
some sort to this dreadful chapter in their lives. By
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(07:30):
We're gonna take a little break here, and when we
get back, I may briefly touch on something that happened
yesterday with our own governor, and maybe a little bit
more on the flooding, and then we'll move on to
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Speaker 1 (09:01):
Dougpike as fifty plus continues, Welcome back to fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Thanks for listening. Certainly to appreciate it. Going back to
the Hill country, and it's honestly it's very difficult not to,
but going back for now, at least, I'm really genuinely
thrilled that so many people in this country have donated
so much to this region and the people who've lost
everything in many cases. And I'm at the same time

(09:30):
disturbed that some people just couldn't wait to start throwing accusations,
start looking for something or someone to blame for a
natural event, something that's happened more than once, long long
ago in the past. It just the difference this time

(09:53):
is that in that moment, there were a lot of
people in the way of all that rushing water. And
it's really it bothers me that people would start just
just rushing at the opportunity to try to blame somebody
or something for the especially somebody with whom they disagree politically.

(10:15):
It's just too early. It's far too early for that,
and our own governor, Greg Abbott, normally a pretty soft
spoken guy, normally pretty quiet as politicians go, fired back
really strongly. I think it was yesterday when some insensitive
doof of a reporter asked who are what was to

(10:37):
blame for this strategy tragedy. This is not the time
to be laying blame on anything or anyone. It's time
to find everybody who's missing. It's time to make sure
those who survived have what they need to get through
tomorrow and next week and next month. This is no

(10:58):
time to be playing petty, irreverent games that ignore a
catastrophe of this magnitude. Either either help, However, you can
either be a part of the solution or just keep
your mouth shut and get out of the way. That's
what they need to be doing. They don't need to
be rushing to judgment for anything. I like the idea

(11:21):
of talking about alarm systems. I like the idea. I
did that Saturday on my outdoor show over on KB
and Me. The audience and I got into a pretty
good discussion of how we can better let people know
that something like this should it occur again, and it
will sometime in history more water is going to come

(11:42):
down that watershed. And my thought is a series of
sirens throughout that valley, from way up high to way
down low that go off not just when the water
starts to rise, but go off in varying tones to

(12:02):
let you know. Like the first tone would be, hey,
we're getting a lot of rain and there's a chance
that the river is gonna swell up and potentially mess
up your plans. The second one would be, hey, the
river is definitely rising. We're not sure how fast or
how soon you'll need to do anything, or even if
you'll need to do anything, but put a bunch of

(12:25):
stuff in a bag and set it by the front door.
And then maybe the third level is get everybody in
the car, get to high ground now, and hopefully there
would be no need for a fourth level by the
time that third one went off, and those things could
be set. They would go off relative to how the

(12:45):
water is acting, and they would each would have its
own sense of urgency attached to it. Maybe just a
single blast, two blasts, three blasts, whatever, but I think
that could that could be a fairly e to implement.
It wouldn't cost a lot of money. All it would
require is maintenance and for just to make sure their

(13:08):
horns were within earshot of anybody who could be affected
by something like this. By the way, Nona, I'm gonna
do that right now. I'll go here shifting gears but
not leaving Texas. From Fox News, word that ten people
have been arrested and charged or had not arrested but

(13:29):
charged and accused of taking part in an ambush at
the prey Land Detention Center in Alvarado, Alvarado, Texas. By
the way, ice facility at which they first these people
did allegedly fired fireworks and spray painted vehicles, and then
after that when authorities started, when the agents started coming out,

(13:53):
a bunch of rounds were fired at them, rifle rounds,
one of which struck an officer in the neck. I
think that person's going to be okay, but nonetheless, if
they're doing that, that's a hot mess. There's actually potential evidence,
although officials are being pretty close lipped about it, that
ties this attack to the one in McAllen in which

(14:15):
some lunatic was actually killed during an exchange of gunfire
with officers that hit one of the local police officers.
That guy's going to be Okay, by the way, two
Democrats in Congress, they I don't understand the thinking of
people who would introduce a bill that would require ICE

(14:36):
agents to remove their masks while apprehending illegal immigrants, that
they're so set on impeding the removal from our country
of people who entered it illegally, that they're willing to
endanger and intimidate law enforcement right in the face of
increasingly violent attacks and ambushes on these people. And all

(15:00):
doing is not only putting these agents in harm's way,
and you know that would happen. There are way too
many people, too many loose cannons, if you will, in
this country right now, who would like nothing more than
to attack and potentially kill the people who are trying
to take bad people out of our country. It's just remarkable, remarkable.

(15:24):
This just tells me that the left, if it's somehow
going to regain power, the left is still counting on
keeping all these millions of illegal immigrants in this country
and somehow, somehow finding a way to give them voting rights.
Cause right now, they don't have much of a choice.

(15:45):
They've already lost most of their base. They've just gone
too too far left, and there's not another country in
the world that would do anything so idiotic as to
allow millions and non citizens to have a say in
national elections. How they think that's going to do anything
long term good is beyond me. It just flies in

(16:05):
the face of common sense, which clearly for the last
four or five years we've lacked in this country very difficult.
They've alienated themselves, They from most Americans, nearly all of
the middle aged, hardworking Americans who used to be the
backbone of that party before they became unhinged. But unhinged

(16:26):
they became, and god over the past what eight or
ten years, raising the crazy bar. Every time some new
subset of lunatic subsets wants some attention, they'll jump on
any cause it'll get them in the news and maybe
garner a few votes. But what they haven't learned, and

(16:48):
didn't learn in November, is that grabbing a few votes
costs them a lot of votes. Fox News aired a
story recently that shows how Democrats are building each training facilities,
and I mean literal training facilities that are designed to
teach their their most impressionable and loyal followers how to
disrupt and sabotage pretty much anything or anyone who stands

(17:13):
in their way. Some of these people are even saying,
according to Fox, some of these Democrats are calling for
blood and violence. It's said in the story to deal
with President Trump and Republicans listen closely to that. We're
talking about blood and violence and to settle political differences

(17:33):
with other Americans. That makes absolutely no sense at all.
Absolutely none desperate moves by a desperate party. Their old
guards afraid of being exposed, I think for what they've
done over the years, and boy if they if they
lose their their standing, they're going to lose a lot,
because once those dominoes start to fall, they're all going

(17:56):
to squeal on each other. I think every one of
them knows what they've all done, and none of them
wants that to come to light. I'm not quite sure
what they think. I really am not, but I hope
they don't fall for these young people I'm talking about.
They don't fall for the bolognea that tells them socialism
can work, never has, never will, not on this planet.
Maybe in some other land far far away, but not

(18:19):
on this planet. All right, we're gonna take a little
break here. When we get back, we are going to
have a really good discussion, I hope about staying safe
in this digital world of ours and scams. And I
just got an email from my bank actually that warned
of all these scams that are out there now. So

(18:41):
hopefully I and yeah shin Manraj will get some of
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Speaker 1 (20:21):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Fifty plus. Thanks for listening. I do appreciate it. Uh.
Steve waded in by email during the break and just
reminded me, as we're talking about what's going on up
in the hill country that if you got grandkids, you
got kids, maybe just go give them a big old
hug and just thank your lucky stars that you're not

(20:54):
having to deal with what those people are. We are
in this segment going to take a hard look at
scammers and AI for seniors specifically. And like I said
before the break, I just got word from my bank
earlier today that there is there are issues with scammers
all over the internet right now, all over the Internet,

(21:15):
and let's skip over the dating scams and forget about that.
So anyway, what I need to do right now is
I'm going to bring in Yashin Menraj, founder and CEO
of Pivotal. Welcome to fifty plus, Sir, Hi, howy doing?
I'm doing very well and I hope that you and
I can kind of help my audience deer clear of

(21:36):
some of this stuff. Let's talk talk if you will.
You're you're the expert. How is AI coming into the
scamming world? Now?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah, I think probably the audience has been familiar with
all the phone call scams for a while, you know,
like the irs pretending to call getting information from you.
Most of the time, you know, it's been cole centers
in India Pakistan has been targeting customers that they've got
from either other sales calls or marketing database that they've

(22:06):
got and they've been trying to get you to buy
gift cards or give you access to the accounts. So
I think a lot of Americans wisened up to this,
and so we saw a pretty significant drop of the
past few years in terms of how many people fell
for those comps. People still did, but not as much.
I think the biggest issue we've seen with AI and

(22:27):
the combination of AI and automation is that a lot
of uh, you know these hackers now that had I
would say, you know things that for example, their voice,
the accent, they have no information about you was very limited.
Now they are having AI tools that can scan your
social media, they can scan your grandchildren's social media, they

(22:48):
can scan a lot of the bases of recent leaks,
and are able to combine a lot of information to
generate a script that is very targetted. And I think
that's where in the past few months, especially since I
think the beginning of court to one of twenty twenty five,
we've seen a massive spike of people actually falling back
into the scams. Most of them are so well targeted

(23:11):
in terms of you know, either it's like a purchase
you just made online, a USBs order, so they send
you a link via tech to just you know, correct
your address to get your package. So they have a
much better pulse on what activities you're really doing. And
I think for the average user, and especially elderly, it's
hard for them to differentiate, especially when you know they

(23:32):
are probably accustomed to thinking that the scammer has just
a bad act and a bad script and that you
can get out of it. Now they are using AI
to you know, improve sometimes even their voice sometimes to
be able to know a lot of information about you,
and they have like scripts prepared for them when you
answer the phone, So it's a little bit harder I
think for the average person to difference. So I think

(23:53):
that's why you're doing a fantastic job of you know,
these alerting your people too. It's this being the case
and how they are being affected by it.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
AI has just really accelerated the ability of these people
to to kind of fine tune their scams. It's so scary.
There's video now supposedly maybe taken by a friend or
a family member that claimed some distress somewhere, and almost
all of these requests for money come with a sense
of urgency too that normally wouldn't be there if it

(24:25):
were real. Right, Yes, you're right.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
And I think what's funny is that you know people,
the scammers that they used to have scripts that was
written by you know, like people that was able to
be successfully. That's why the IRS scams were usually good
in the pust because people see the IRS, right, they
didn't want to be arrested. They didn't want it, so
there was that feat attached to it after that kind
of like win over now that agin you like, as

(24:51):
you said, the grandchildren voice, especially those of people like that.
The biggest issue I think is that EI visualization has
become so good now that it can generate, for example,
like realistic images of their grandchildren using publicly available Facebook
messages or Facebook posts or social media. I think that
creates a lot of fear because we have to remind,

(25:11):
you know, the elderly not only are not used towards
seeing hyper realistic you know, they have not been for
the antanny value that the younger generation has been for
the cycle of computing or gaming. So they see those
and they feel that it is more real. But that
and combined with the fact that the script now uses
you know, really good psychological torture that they have learned

(25:33):
from books and things like that. So these cameras now
have access towards you know, CIA manuals, other manuals that
people have written about psychology, and so altogether combined it
is making people that would never be able to do that.
You know, criminal services have access to the best tools
that we have developed. Unfortunately, that are our scientists have developed,
and you know, the best tools of the image generation

(25:55):
to deceive them, and unfortunately it seems to be working
them very well for them so far.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Mon Raj on fifty plus. So talk about things we
can do in the last couple of minutes we've got here,
things we can do to protect ourselves from this.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
I think the main advice that we give to our
own customers and you know, even my family, is that
avoid answering calls from numbers you don't know. Usually if
somebody is you know, asking you for these, it will
be from the actual number. So if you don't recognize
their phone, don't answer. If you don't recognize the text,
don't answer. Especially I think the most successful one for

(26:30):
the early has been packages, you know, with the fourth
of July with like major you know break So when
people buy gifts, especially at Christmas time, when people start planning,
avoid answering any text that asks you to change your
address or verify your payment. Contact your supplier direct, you know,
contact Amazon, contact everything. And for the families of people

(26:51):
that are elderly, do have you know, people's phone enable
to detect or filter spam calls, and you know, add
people's you know, I d N and call ID. Sometimes
you know, you give the elderly a phone, but you
don't really give them. They don't know how to save
your contact, they don't know how to do it, and
they might be confused by the numbers. So that's I
think a baseline measure that helps tell.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Me briefly, we've got about a minute here. Tell me
about Pivotal p v O T A L.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, so it's all is basically a company that deals
with cybersecurity. So instead of you know, the traditional companies
that basically sells you a lot of things like a
bunch of anti virus and bunch of like services on
top of it. We try to work with companies to
re engineer and build their services correctly because we think
that you know, hackers these days are not smart, and

(27:39):
I think it's mostly human error that leads to most
data breaches and most problems todays. So we really just
work with the baseline to secure and build things correctly.
So banks and you know, major companies don't leak data
for customers and help them protect them in a more
meaningful fashion.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
P v o T a l dot Com. Thank you
so very much, really appreciate this. Sorry, oh okay, thank
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Thanks a lot for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
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(30:42):
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If somebody's a good fit and we can get them
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If not, then we'll just agree that we can maybe

(31:04):
go play some golf or go fishing someday. From New
York City, I saw a video of this and it's
it's got a happy ending. This thirty six year old guy,
he's described in the story as mentally ill, charged with
attempted kidnapping after he just literally grabbed a six year
old boy off the sidewalk right in front of the

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kid's parents. The parents chased the guy down and held
him until police arrived and hauled the guy away. Broad daylight,
New York City. Place is a hot miss. Just a
very sad decay. That's only gonna get worse if that
Democratic get candidate for mayor gets the reins too. From

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the hold on, let mean I gotta do this, I
can't do that right now. From the you were warned
desk comes word that the Department of Justice has soon
the state of California just like it said it was
gonna do, over Title nine infractions that continue to allow
boys to compete in girls sports and allow boys into

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girls locker rooms. Even Gavin Newsom a while back, Governor California,
a while back, when he was probably saying something he
thought his audience wanted to hear, even if he didn't
believe it, he actually said out loud that boys in
girl sports was unfair. But when it came to changing
state rules to abide by Title nine, the state's governing
bodies over that issue said, naw, we don't want to

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do that. So kind of a cu in court thing.
To lighten the load.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
Let me see, I've got that checked off, that checked off,
That checked off. Good, Let's go to something a little
bit lighter and right off the top. For anybody who's
the least bit superstitious and has seen something about this
and doesn't realize it's a fake.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Oh my goodness, I can't. I just can't. I can't
answer that call. Will do me a favor, do me
a call this number. Okay, I'm getting will to handle
something for me, and we'll see what's going on with
that and moving forward for a change of scene, Traveling

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Leisure named the number one US city to visit for
the first time in twelve years, something other than Charleston,
South Carolina. The new the new champion in the clubhouse
happens to be Santa Fe, New Mexico. Santa Fe. I've
been to, but I haven't stayed in and so I'm

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not really sure I haven't. I haven't spent much time there.
Kind of went through it once on the way actually
on the way to a camping trip, believe it or not,
up in the mountains. So Santa Fe, congratulations. And I'm
sure Charleston's just a twitter. Back to that first thing
I was talking about. Anybody who's a little superstitious, There's
there's stories going around talking about how Halloween is going

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to be on Friday the thirteenth, and it's the first
time that's happened in six hundred and sixty six years.
None of that is true. First of all, Halloween never has,
nor ever will be on Friday the thirteenth, because Halloween
is always on October thirty. First, the same joke pops
up every year around this time, every single year. Moving

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forward from there, Oh, this is a guy. You've probably
seen or heard this story already, but I'm gonna drop
it in there anyway. Fifty nine year old guy wait
to make us look good, dude. Fifty nine year old
guy in California tried to help an injured bear on
the side of the road. He called authorities and asked
for help out there. Said he'd seen the bear get

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hit by a car and he good Samaritan he is.
He stopped to try to help the bear the wounded bear,
and the bear chomped down on his arm and tore
it up pretty good. Turns out he was actually the guy. Gosh,
that's her again. Hey, well, we gotta go. Okay, I'm
gonna go. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Audios.