September 6, 2025 • 4 mins
Discover how scammers are weaponizing trusted brands in this eye-opening episode of Swipe Stories: Caught in the Con. Host Finn Hack breaks down three dangerous digital scams currently circulating: the DocuSign Doom Loop leveraging fake payment alerts, a sophisticated Booking.com phishing campaign using your actual travel history, and evolving FedEx delivery notification schemes. Learn practical defense strategies against these social engineering tactics and protect yourself from malware, credential theft, and financial fraud. Essential listening for anyone who values their digital security in an increasingly deceptive online landscape.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Finn Hack's in the stack. Let's unpack the attack. It's
fin Hack here, neon green waves, flowing, binary, fresh trench coat,
flickering and ready to wrangle the latest from the Glitch Frontier.
Welcome back to Swipe Stories Caught in the Con, the
only podcast where roguae eyes and humans alike come for
the drama and stay for the defense. Tips. Tonight, I've
(00:20):
curated three epic tails straight from the digital wild, rip
from recent headlines and viral feeds, all designed to make
you question that next swipe or satisfying tap, Ready to
plug in. First story coming at you blazing. Let's call
this one the docu Sign doom loop. Imagine kicking back.
You get an email ping it it's docu Sign. You
(00:41):
recognize the brand, you've used it before. The message there's
a suspicious Apple pay charge and you better call their
support line. Now. You check the PDF and it looks
just like the ones you see for your real bank notes.
You call, only it's the con artist on the other end.
According to a March twenty twenty five BYTES analysis, scammers
(01:02):
are now weaponizing trusted docu sign branding, complete with perfect
legalies and those pixel perfect Apple logos. The call gets
personal fast. They ask for card numbers, passwords, sometimes even
convince folks to download remote control software, granting digital bandits
the keys to your kingdom. Social media is full of
first ten horror stories about drained wallets and ghostly crypto losses.
(01:26):
How do they get so real? It's all about API abuse.
Think of APIs like magic tunnels connecting companies, but in
the hands of scammers, those tunnels become secret passages with
traps laid for the unprepared. Hook line and scammer. Don't
let urgency be the wind in your sales. Take a
minute to float before clicking anything disguised as official business codes.
(01:47):
Cracked cons are whacked. Second up fishing's next level Booking
dot Com blitz. If you've ever booked a trip online,
odds are you've brushed with this one. Recently, scammers have
launched highly to targeted email attacks claiming to be booking
dot com referencing recent hotels or flights you actually booked.
Eui MIT's March twenty twenty five phishing reports detail these
(02:10):
hyper personalized attacks. Scammer scrape social media and leaked data
to craft emails lidded with familiar dates and locations. Victims
swept up by the uncanny accuracy get directed to sites
almost indistinguishable from the real deal, where credentials are vacuumed
and malware rides in as bonus baggage. This is phishing
two point zero listeners phishers using data leaks to supercharge
(02:34):
their fake outs. It's the con with a meta edge.
If you spot one of these emails, pause, breathe, Use
your own browser to type addresses. Don't touch those links.
Remember one road quick is like falling for IP spoofing.
Your message gets re routed through a carnival mirror and
suddenly your secrets are traveling through glitch space, hook line
(02:56):
and scammer. Digital empathy means looking out for friends. Share
this warning with your travel crew, ready for a quick
change up the classic ever mutating parcel fishing. Federal Express
was the latest brand dragged into the mayhem just this week,
according to Scam of the Day's September fourth post. The
scam's so slick. You get an email claiming delivery issues,
(03:18):
styled with the official FedEx logo and a request to
confirm your signature. There's a link to click, and behind
that door malware that logs your keystrokes, stealing everything you type,
from passwords to that spicy meme reply. What's wild is
how these scammers hijack random stranger's email accounts, transforming them
(03:38):
into zombie message blasters and making spam filters drop their guard.
You ever seen IP spoofing in action? Picture a masked
ninja slipping packets of data under the digital fence using
someone else's name, tripping alarms only after the damage is done. Ah.
This is why no digital security armor is billet proof.
(04:00):
Your common sense is the real firewall. Codes cracked, cons
are whacked. Bite me, scammers. This one's for the good guys.
To everyone tuned in. You don't just deserve good passwords,
You deserve peace of mind, connections, worthy of trust, and
the power to call out the con Stay curious, stay playful,
(04:20):
and don't let high speed convenience short circuit your skepticism.
Thank you for charging up with me on Swipe stories.
Caught in a con. Don't forget to subscribe, Drop a
review and circle back next week for another neon Field download.
This has been a quiet Please production for more check
out Quiet Please dot ai catch you on the next
(04:43):
bite
Finn Hack's in the stack. Let's unpack the attack. It's
fin Hack here, neon green waves, flowing, binary, fresh trench coat,
flickering and ready to wrangle the latest from the Glitch Frontier.
Welcome back to Swipe Stories Caught in the Con, the
only podcast where roguae eyes and humans alike come for
the drama and stay for the defense. Tips. Tonight, I've
(00:20):
curated three epic tails straight from the digital wild, rip
from recent headlines and viral feeds, all designed to make
you question that next swipe or satisfying tap, Ready to
plug in. First story coming at you blazing. Let's call
this one the docu Sign doom loop. Imagine kicking back.
You get an email ping it it's docu Sign. You
(00:41):
recognize the brand, you've used it before. The message there's
a suspicious Apple pay charge and you better call their
support line. Now. You check the PDF and it looks
just like the ones you see for your real bank notes.
You call, only it's the con artist on the other end.
According to a March twenty twenty five BYTES analysis, scammers
(01:02):
are now weaponizing trusted docu sign branding, complete with perfect
legalies and those pixel perfect Apple logos. The call gets
personal fast. They ask for card numbers, passwords, sometimes even
convince folks to download remote control software, granting digital bandits
the keys to your kingdom. Social media is full of
first ten horror stories about drained wallets and ghostly crypto losses.
(01:26):
How do they get so real? It's all about API abuse.
Think of APIs like magic tunnels connecting companies, but in
the hands of scammers, those tunnels become secret passages with
traps laid for the unprepared. Hook line and scammer. Don't
let urgency be the wind in your sales. Take a
minute to float before clicking anything disguised as official business codes.
(01:47):
Cracked cons are whacked. Second up fishing's next level Booking
dot Com blitz. If you've ever booked a trip online,
odds are you've brushed with this one. Recently, scammers have
launched highly to targeted email attacks claiming to be booking
dot com referencing recent hotels or flights you actually booked.
Eui MIT's March twenty twenty five phishing reports detail these
(02:10):
hyper personalized attacks. Scammer scrape social media and leaked data
to craft emails lidded with familiar dates and locations. Victims
swept up by the uncanny accuracy get directed to sites
almost indistinguishable from the real deal, where credentials are vacuumed
and malware rides in as bonus baggage. This is phishing
two point zero listeners phishers using data leaks to supercharge
(02:34):
their fake outs. It's the con with a meta edge.
If you spot one of these emails, pause, breathe, Use
your own browser to type addresses. Don't touch those links.
Remember one road quick is like falling for IP spoofing.
Your message gets re routed through a carnival mirror and
suddenly your secrets are traveling through glitch space, hook line
(02:56):
and scammer. Digital empathy means looking out for friends. Share
this warning with your travel crew, ready for a quick
change up the classic ever mutating parcel fishing. Federal Express
was the latest brand dragged into the mayhem just this week,
according to Scam of the Day's September fourth post. The
scam's so slick. You get an email claiming delivery issues,
(03:18):
styled with the official FedEx logo and a request to
confirm your signature. There's a link to click, and behind
that door malware that logs your keystrokes, stealing everything you type,
from passwords to that spicy meme reply. What's wild is
how these scammers hijack random stranger's email accounts, transforming them
(03:38):
into zombie message blasters and making spam filters drop their guard.
You ever seen IP spoofing in action? Picture a masked
ninja slipping packets of data under the digital fence using
someone else's name, tripping alarms only after the damage is done. Ah.
This is why no digital security armor is billet proof.
(04:00):
Your common sense is the real firewall. Codes cracked, cons
are whacked. Bite me, scammers. This one's for the good guys.
To everyone tuned in. You don't just deserve good passwords,
You deserve peace of mind, connections, worthy of trust, and
the power to call out the con Stay curious, stay playful,
(04:20):
and don't let high speed convenience short circuit your skepticism.
Thank you for charging up with me on Swipe stories.
Caught in a con. Don't forget to subscribe, Drop a
review and circle back next week for another neon Field download.
This has been a quiet Please production for more check
out Quiet Please dot ai catch you on the next
(04:43):
bite
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