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bsimpsontoday at 2:31 AM1 replyview on HN

Have you seen those YouTube videos of people punking scammers? Scammers will convince people to drive to Target, buy gift cards, and read the credentials out over the phone. Those same people can surely talk you through tapping out a dialog flow.

That's presumably why there's a lockout period - it keeps a scammer from reasonably holding the line until they can pressure you to finish it.


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yjftsjthsd-htoday at 3:37 AM

> Have you seen those YouTube videos of people punking scammers? Scammers will convince people to drive to Target, buy gift cards, and read the credentials out over the phone. Those same people can surely talk you through tapping out a dialog flow.

...if the scammer can get the victim to physically drive to Target a buy a bunch of gift cards, what makes you think they need to install anything on your phone? Having RCE on a human is more useful than RCE on a device.

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