Everyone is inundated with robocalls! Many of them are legitimate, such as those providing notifications about environmental threats such as hurricanes and tornadoes. And those giving alerts about missing persons. And there are many others that are legal, but can still be quite annoying, such as from political candidates.

There are also increasingly more robocalls that are used to commit scams and a wide range of crimes. Security expert Ben Rothke is fed up with all these robocall scammers! Ben has been researching this longtime, and constantly evolving scam for many years. In fact, he has amassed over 100 recorded scam calls that he provides to the public to raise their awareness for identifying these scammers. During this episode Ben describes many different ways that robocalls are used to commit crimes. Such as for spreading ransomware, gaining access to bank and other types of financial accounts, tricking people into buying high-dollar items, or for compelling the targeted robocall victims to send the crooks money.

Listen in to hear Ben discuss these and many more different types of robocall crimes, and the tactics used. Mr. Rothke will also describe the overall problem, the security and privacy risks that they can bring, and what needs to be done to get rid of this scourge. Please tune in!

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