Evening Edition

How Scammers Use Your Emotions Against You


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The MCMC has highlighted the dangers of "cognitive hacking", where scammers use a potential victim's fears or emotions against them. We speak to a cybersecurity expert on how to protect ourselves from cognitive hacking, and how the information we inadvertently share online could be enabling these scams.

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