#spoofing detection

[of-fear-and-love]

[novelties-and-notions]

From The Complete Works of Piers Q MacBean, volume 10, Into Obscurity

Hollywood She stands waiting on the corner of tomorrow. The taste of light bulbs in her hair. Like the day he asked "Waiting for the moon to arrive on the overhead train?" Somewhere out of earshot a saxophone plays the sound of broken telephone numbers falling on old rooftops. Dressed in the fingernails of empty whisky bottles, the ghost of Bette Davis sings to blue orchids. "I will gainsay and gather you," she had murmured to empty shadows in the old canal.

[flockstarz-bird-comic]

~Who Shot The Kid?~

a Mockatiel & NOir Mini Mystery

~ crime noir but tiny parrots ~ hardboiled detective ~ whodunnit ~

[cognitiveinequality]

Reading Guards! Guards! for the first time in eons and newly vibing with Pratchett's extremely cinematic storytelling. And now immensely sad there is no LOTR-commitment-level film in existence directed by Edgar Wright or Taika Waititi or James Gunn and starring someone like Tom Hardy at his most Eddiebrockian-'sad wet beast'-core best as Vimes.

[noirgasmweetheart]

It took me far too long to make this.

Apologies for the armature quality, I'm relatively new to making fan edits.

[randomly-a-fan]

This took me ages to get the clips just right, I'd give it a 9 out of 10 to be honest. This is when Arlong as Ratigan puts Hank as Dawson and Dale as Basil in a trap and he explains how it works. As Hank as Dawson tries to encourage Dale as Basil to think of a way out, Dale as Basil thought of "Set the Trap Off Now". Which them both and Baby Octavia as Olivia.

[morlock-holmes]

Something to watch for, which I learned from stage magic but which is extremely relevant to detecting scams as well:

The magician or scammer will *tell you* how he is going to prove his honesty.

The magician rifles through the deck until you say "stop", then he says, "Are you sure? I'll keep going if you want." and asks "Now, you agree that you could have stopped anywhere you wanted, so there's absolutely no way I could know which card you got" and because it's a magic show and you aren't paying close attention you didn't notice he didn't deal a card from where you stopped, he dealt the bottom card of the deck.

The magician doesn't ask you, "What would it take for you to believe this" because you might say, "I'd need you to use a sealed deck" or "I'd have to personally shuffle the deck" or some other proof that would make the trick impossible.

Magicians say "You agree that if I did *this*, it would mean *that*, right?" and you say yes, and it feels like you are the one who got to verify things, but of course the magician is lying and the proof is nothing of the kind.

Scammers do the same thing. A really concrete example is phone scammers pretending to be working for the government will say, "Look, I see you're skeptical if I'm who I say I am, I'm going to hang up and call back, and you'll see on the caller ID it says, 'FBI' and that tells you that I'm really working for the government."

Now, caller ID can be spoofed pretty easily, so it doesn't prove anything at all.

But it *feels* to you like you demanded proof and the scammer was willing to give you the proof.

But you didn't tell the scammer what out would take to prove it to you, the scammer told you what the proof would be.

This is actually like a really basic thing to look for if you want to start decoding magic tricks and scams.

[mohitbisresearch]

The spoofing detection technologies market is expected to experience growth, with significant advancements anticipated during the forecast period, leading to substantial value projections by the end of the decade.

[of-fear-and-love]

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

[schlock-luster-video]

On May 26, 1994, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective debuted in Germany.

[wreched-moth]

I watched Psych pretty much every day throughout high school, I have seen every episode more than once and my brother still will turn on an episode and act like I can’t give a full plot rundown within 10 seconds of the start. Buddy, this is my show, I have this one thing, don’t second guess me.

[noirgasmweetheart]

I've never seen this show before, but this is wonderful even as a stand-alone noir parody. There are so many Easter eggs for noir fans!

The Peter Lorre parody is marvelous, and the Sydney Greenstreet parody may have made me laugh even harder.

[luthsthings]

NEW: Malware threat via text files with links

[April 7, 2024]

Do NOT download or follow links from these fake mods:

    “S4 CAS Tools” on Nexus from user fubruss

    “Loading Screen Randomizer” on Nexus from user fubruss

    anything else from the Nexus user fubruss.

These are NOT the Sims mods they claim to be. They are text files with links leading to malware.

No legitimate mod download will EVER consist of only a text file (a file ending in .txt).  Be alert for other versions of this way of spreading malware.

If you downloaded either of these, delete them NOW and run a virus scan. NOTE: This malware does NOT require that you run the game for it to install itself, and is not what ModGuard is designed to detect and stop.

This is also another case of mod-spoofing, using the names of legitimate mods. The legit mods are S4 CAS Tools by the late CmarNYC (Mod the Sims, dated 18 March 2023) and Loading Screen Randomizer by Tesuto (Mod the Sims, dated 9 January 2024). 

Much gratitude to Tumblr Simmer 1-800-cuupid!