Life & Technology – 2GB 27th July 2024

New scam unsubscribe and prize emails are harder to spot

A tsunami of legitimate-looking unsubscribe and prize emails are ripping off tens of thousands of Australians. It is all driven by dark web AI that knows what Aussies read and where they shop.

Let’s pick a pretty obvious one – Amazon Prime, but it could easily be Woolworths, Coles, Target, Big W, Kmart, Rebel, etc – any Aussie franchise.

 Unsubscribe emails

Amazon starts sending you emails whether it has ever sold something to you or not. They look legitimate because they are simply ‘scraped’ by AI and sent to its AI-developed dark web email list.

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