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Aug 8, 2019 31 min

Positive pretexting on the rise.

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Joe shares a cautionary Facebook tale from his own life. Dave has the story of an Australian IT company put out of business by scammers. The catch of the day tracks the response writer and comedian Dave Holmes had to scammers pretending to be from the IRS. Rachel Tobac from Social Proof Security returns with voting security information and the latest scams she's been tracking. Links to today's stories: https://www.crn.com.au/news/it-suppliers-forced-to-close-after-procurement-scam-528609 https://cheezburger.com/719877/troll-comedian-gets-a-scam-call-and-decides-to-play-along https://www.vampirecaveman.com/ Have a Catch of the Day you'd like to share? Email it to us at [email protected] or hit us up on Twitter.

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