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The Rise of Boring Scams: How AI Is Killing the Nigerian Prince

https://gregrossmunro.com/the-rise-of-boring-scams-ai-is-killing-the-nigerian-prince/
2•gregdrm•1h ago

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gregdrm•1h ago
Remember when scams were at least entertaining? Nigerian princes offering castles in Lagos, typos everywhere, laughable grammar. Generative AI killed that.

The new wave of phishing isn’t flashy, it’s boring. Fake DocuSigns, awful procurement PDFs, employee reimbursement requests, all annoying routine paperwork, written in flawless corporate English, with fake documents polished enough to pass a casual review.

I wrote up a few recent examples we caught (including a full fake vendor onboarding pack for Carnival UK). I think the new red flag isn’t drama or urgency. It’s when something looks “too normal.”

LLMs Are Short-Circuiting. What Comes Next?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2025/09/30/llms-are-short-circuiting-is-it-time-to-redef...
1•nakamoto_damacy•2m ago•0 comments

EmbeddingGemma: Architecture and Recipe

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-explained-embeddinggemma-architecture-and-recipe/
1•sahil2305dua•2m ago•0 comments

Why Leaders Need Values

https://managerstories.co/why-leaders-need-values/
3•damsos•3m ago•2 comments

Stable v2.0.0 Release of Immich

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/22546
2•bo0tzz•3m ago•0 comments

Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video

https://github.com/tvlabs/edge264
1•andsoitis•3m ago•0 comments

The Chimp War That Shocked the World [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChO586cR3hQ
1•timetraveller26•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder

https://github.com/everydayanchovies/SpatialFinder
1•dailyanchovy•5m ago•0 comments

Sentry Agent for Linear

https://docs.sentry.io/organization/integrations/issue-tracking/sentry-linear-agent/
1•d3w1tt•7m ago•0 comments

DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2024/memory-safety-vulnerabilities
2•alhazraed•10m ago•0 comments

GenAI Predictions

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions
3•FromTheArchives•14m ago•0 comments

Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/microsoft_consumer_copilot_corporate/
4•rntn•15m ago•0 comments

Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012)

https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/6739/is-pawn-promotion-to-rook-or-bishop-something...
2•susam•15m ago•0 comments

The Company Man

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JH6tJhYpnoCfFqAct/the-company-man
1•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

MiniSlug – Hardcore arcade side-scroller Metal Slug clone ported for the web

https://midzer.de/wasm/minislug/
1•midzer•16m ago•1 comments

Prusament PC Space Grade – ESD safe material suitable for space applications

https://blog.prusa3d.com/prusament-pc-space-grade-black_121877/
1•LorenDB•16m ago•0 comments

The Determinants of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges [pdf]

https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CollegeAdmissions_Paper.pdf
2•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

Beeper iOS Implements Notifications with On-Device Connections

https://blog.beeper.com/2025/10/01/how-beeper-ios-implements-notifications/
4•KishanBagaria•16m ago•0 comments

Our 2022 Pivot, aligning Hospitals and Researchers

https://merqur.io/2022/09/05/the-story-of-our-2022-pivot/
1•merqurio•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Learn Chinese by partially translating things you'd normally read

1•wayy•21m ago•0 comments

visionOS 26 Review: Keep moving toward the future

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/visionos-26-review-keep-moving-toward-the-future/
1•CharlesW•22m ago•0 comments

Every Religion Is Based on One Word

1•phoenixhaber•23m ago•2 comments

Implementing /Usr Merge in Alpine

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-10-01-usr-merge.html
1•rascul•23m ago•0 comments

We're all senior engineers now

https://theahura.substack.com/p/were-all-senior-engineers-now
1•theahura•27m ago•0 comments

Decoding gender dimorphism of the human brain using multimodal MRI data

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053811913000074
1•CGMthrowaway•29m ago•0 comments

The AirPods Pro 3 Are Everything I Wanted, and They're Crucially Flawed

https://aftermath.site/airpods-pro-3-review-heartrate-v-shaped-sound
1•sandbach•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Fuzz Forge, vulnerability discovery with AI and fuzzing

https://github.com/FuzzingLabs/fuzzforge_ai
9•unbalancedparen•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Standalone Android AI Automation Agent

https://github.com/iamvaar-dev/heybro
1•iamvaar-dev•30m ago•0 comments

Mythbusting Illiteracy in the Middle Ages

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/11/mythbusting-illiteracy-in-the-middle-ages/
1•stconstantine•31m ago•0 comments

Nobody Would Edit Shakespeare, Right? Right?

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/09/nobody-would-edit-shakespeare-right-right/
1•CharlesW•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a StopScrolling Predictor 4 creators and brands to help friend

https://www.aisthetix.com/
1•the_mahala•33m ago•0 comments