GhostwritingIt looked like a dream inquiry: a businessman with fifty years of experience, a $35K budget, a six-month timeline, real-looking credentials, all of it engineered to harvest free writing samples through a fake project. It nearly worked on me. Here…
CybersecurityThe email looked perfect, professional, polished, a serious ghostwriting project worth $90,000. The scammer spent a full month building trust before the trap sprang: an overpayment scheme designed to leave me $4,000 in the hole. The longer these cons run,…
AI OverrelianceLast Tuesday I nearly became a fugitive, because my overseas virtual assistant could not tell business development from aggravated assault, and a routine client outreach almost turned into a criminal conspiracy case. It is a cautionary tale about outsourcing and…
CybersecurityI have been scammed twice, once by a con who spent a month building trust before springing a $90K overpayment trap, once by a fake businessman harvesting content through paid samples. Both were sophisticated, and both exploited blind spots every…
CybersecurityA ninety-minute BlogTalk Radio conversation where the host brought her real scam encounters and Richard Lowe explained each con from the inside, plus password strategy, the deleted-file myth, and a second hour on respect.
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