Scams, Misinformation, Disinformation, And More

Don't be a victim

What you'll learn

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Investigators

Fact checking

Avoiding scams

Requirements

web browser, internet connection, the ability to freely browse websites and download/install software

Description

It's an incredible sad fact that scams, misinformation, and disinformation is everywhere and invades every aspect of our lives. Online dating, meeting people online, work phone calls and emails, social media posts, even the news that we consume. The threat is real and has evolved to an incredible degree over the years making scamming people and convincing people of false information so incredibly easy it's frightening. Manipulated photos, AI voices that can sound just like your loved ones, fake photos on dating sights, emails that will steal your information and identities no longer requires a highly sophisticated scammer to pull off anymore. Just about anyone with a little time, a smart phone or computer and a internet connection can pull it off. How do we combat this and protect ourselves? In this course will outline a number of different scams, how they work, why they work, and how to identify it. The goal is identification and mitigation though understanding the hows and whys. We will be employing what is known as OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) to help with this goal. Don't worry, you don't need to be a professional investigator or computer expert for this course. This is designed to help walk everyone through step by step.Again, this is not a full blown course on OSINT, this is designed to identify potential scams and misinformation/disinformation in order to help protect yourself and others.As for me, I have been in the network and security space for over 25 years and have various security certifications, ethical hacker, OSINT investigator, online instructor, author on eForensic Magazine and Hackin9 and have several contacted courses on EC-Council and I enjoy training people to help keep them safe online. I hope to see you in the course, and always feel free to message me if you have any questions or problems (even if you haven't taken the course).

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Disclaimer

Lecture 3 Keep yourself safe

Lecture 4 Victim shaming

Lecture 5 Misinformation and Disinformation

Section 2: OSINT

Lecture 6 What is OSINT?

Section 3: Scammer tools and structure

Lecture 7 Framing

Lecture 8 Moving platforms

Lecture 9 Pickers

Lecture 10 Alaye

Lecture 11 VPN

Section 4: Social Engineering

Lecture 12 Social Engineering

Lecture 13 Belief

Section 5: Phishing emails

Lecture 14 Terms: Phishing and Spear phishing

Section 6: Photos

Lecture 15 Reverse image searches

Lecture 16 Manipulated photos

Lecture 17 Geo location

Section 7: Searches

Lecture 18 Street View

Lecture 19 Canary tokens

Lecture 20 Social Catfish

Lecture 21 People Searches

Section 8: Authority

Lecture 22 Authority scams aka scare ware

Section 9: Misinformation

Lecture 23 Amplification

Lecture 24 Misinformation example

Section 10: Dating and romance

Lecture 25 Romance scam/Friendship scam

Lecture 26 Sextortion scams

Lecture 27 Online dating

Section 11: Phone and text

Lecture 28 Reverse phone lookups

Section 12: Financial

Lecture 29 Paypal, Venmo, Greenpack, Cashapp, Giftcards, etc.

Lecture 30 Sugar daddy/momma

Section 13: Business searches

Lecture 31 Business Searches

Section 14: Fake virus (and real)

Lecture 32 Checking for viruses and malicious links

Section 15: Contest Scams

Lecture 33 Winner scams

Section 16: AI Voice scam

Lecture 34 AI I need Help

Section 17: News and media

Lecture 35 Media bias check

Lecture 36 Fact checking

Section 18: Criminal lookup

Lecture 37 Criminal

Section 19: Reporting

Lecture 38 Reporting people

Section 20: Wrapping up

Lecture 39 Thank you

Anyone who wants to protect themselves and others online