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The Perfect Scam

Inside the Dark Web

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

4.5980 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The criminal side of the internet, the Dark Web, is unknown to most of us. This week’s guest, criminologist David Maimon, takes us behind the curtain into a world where criminals talk to one another anonymously and the personal identifying information of thousands of unsuspecting victims is up for sale. Learn how Maimon’s research warns of emerging trends and how consumers can protect themselves.

Transcript

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This week on The Perfect Scamp.

0:05.0

You've reached the Open Up S Channel.

0:08.0

My name is Sanchez.

0:10.0

Yes, I sell Chase Bank Accounts.

0:13.0

Yes, I am one of the first people who started to sell Bank Accounts four years ago,

0:18.0

but actively working in this field began in 2022.

0:25.0

Welcome back to the perfect scam.

0:30.0

I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

0:33.0

The Dark Web, you've probably heard about it,

0:36.0

full of internet criminals, the place where

0:39.0

stolen data is bought and sold,

0:41.0

where anonymity enables, well, almost anything.

0:45.0

But you probably never been to the Dark Web until today.

0:50.0

David Mymon spends a lot of time there conducting research at Georgia State University.

0:56.0

He and his students create fake personas, go undercover, and lurk in these dark corners of the Internet,

1:02.0

learning all they can about the computer underground.

1:04.8

If you picked up an AARP bulletin this month, then you probably read the article about David

1:10.8

Mymon.

1:11.8

Here at the perfect scan, we wanted to dive a little bit

1:14.1

deeper into the dark web with David whatever you've heard about it well that's just

1:19.2

the tip of the iceberg as you hear David tell us.

1:23.5

But even before we get to that, first, David will explain why there's just so many people

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