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I thought the value of these types of people are their people skills.

Nobody would accuse me of great people skills and while I'd like to point to my technical acumen as the reason I can spot fakes like this easily, it's my primate brain that knows something is wrong.




Just like security specialists can follow a phishing link, I'm sure employees with good people skills can be conned into sharing details with a deepfake colleague.

Social engineering works because people think they could spot it.


Apparently the victim spotted it as a fake too. And then did what they thought was necessary to confirm the instruction.




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