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Have you ever been a victim of telephone scams? These are smishing and vishing, variants of phishing that occur via SMS and calls. In smishing, fraudulent messages sent by scammers are intended to extort sensitive data from victims. These messages are often followed by vishing calls (voice-phishing), i.e. calls from fake operators who pretend to help the victim, thus inducing them to hand over their money to the wrong hands. In this second episode of "The mechanisms of scams", we will explain what smishing and vishing scams are, how they work, how to recognize them and how to defend ourselves. 00:00 SMS and call scams: what Smishing and Vishing mean 01:00 What is Smishing 02:25 How Smishing works 03:08 How does the scammer know your card details 04:19 How does Vishing happen? 05:45 How do they deceive us? 07:15 If they scam me, how can I defend myself? 08:35 What to do in case of a scam? OUR RECOMMENDED VIDEOS: • What is a phishing attack and how to rec... • The technology behind Deepfakes: how... #geopop #science #smishing