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  • scams Watch a scammer use AI voice mimicking and phone number spoofing to con their target Ruben Bolling
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  • goats When Americans used to get goat testicle transplants to cure impotence Thom Dunn
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  • con artists Netflix paid con artist Anna Sorokin $320k and made her the star of her victims' story Rob Beschizza
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  • grifters Con artist busted for scamming 35 women for birthday gifts by pretending to be in a serious relationship with each of them David Pescovitz
  • Comics The wild story of a new comic book publisher con artist who bought up popular 90s comics IP Thom Dunn
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  • crime Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google's profiting from them Cory Doctorow
  • psychology How con artists use the Ouija board effect for their scams David Pescovitz
  • racism Machine learning hucksters invent an AI racist uncle that predicts your personality from your facial bone structure Cory Doctorow
  • con artists Fyre Festival fraudster sentenced to six years in federal prison Mark Frauenfelder
  • crime Spectacular read: a profile of Anna Sorokin, a con-artist who convinced New York that she was a high-rolling socialite trust-funder Cory Doctorow
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