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Why would Nigerians be unsophisticated? Are you assuming someone from Nigeria wouldn't be smart enough to make deepfakes?
by m00x 5y ago
Why would Nigerians be unsophisticated? Are you assuming someone from Nigeria wouldn't be smart enough to make deepfakes?
- dylan604 5y agoRight? Their prince was the first email scam of note, and probably one of the longest running ones at that. Also, you know VPN/VoIP numbers exist to help mask the identity/location of scammers. Just in case some of that might have slipped the mind of some peeps.
- FDSGSG 5y agoNobody would choose to use a Nigerian VPN while logging into stolen accounts. This is really obvious. > Their prince was the first email scam of note, and probably one of the longest running ones at that. And all of the Nigerian prince spammers are incredibly unsophisticated. Anyone in the industry can tell you this, you can just look at the manner in which they send their emails.
- dylan604 5y agoNobody you say? Sounds like the perfect cover then. Or, you know, for the lulz.
- FDSGSG 5y agoAlmost anything is possible, but this is still by far the least likely explanation. Why needlessly alert the victim when you could just choose a proxy in their city? >Sounds like the perfect cover then How would that even work? It's not like this would provide any kind of an advantage. In what kind of a threat model could this possibly be beneficial?
- FDSGSG 5y agoI think you can ask anyone working with threat intel about this. Nigeria has the least sophisticated cybercriminals in the world, they're very prolific but the tooling they use is hilariously bad. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but those would probably be smart enough to conceal where they came from. This isn't really surprising. Obviously Nigerian cybercriminals will be less sophisticated than the Russians for example, just look at their schools!