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Michelle Kellerman

Cybersecurity engineer for Air and Missile Defense at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (CISSP) and recurring "friend of the show" guest on the Hacking Humans podcast.

Aug 20, 2026

21:35
Yeah, I think this is, uh, becoming a very profitable business model.
21:39
Yeah, 'cause we're all kinda learning.
21:40
Uh, so uh, this co- this is a jury duty scam, as I alluded to, in Tampa, Florida.
21:47
A woman was scammed out of $25,000 in a jury duty scam, but this was not just taking her money.
21:55
Like, she was traumatized after.
21:57
This is...
21:58
I've never read a story like this.
25:43
[laughs] Oh God.
18:37
I wonder how they got caught.
18:39
Well, I was looking at the Sure Sports, the website for some, one of these services, and the contracts are very specific.
18:46
You can only...
18:48
Uh, they're only open to certain people.
18:49
So for example, for draft eligible players, it's only for the top 100 NFL Draft prospects and the top 40 NBA Draft prospects.
18:58
It's for certain college athletes based on an expected revenue structure.
19:03
There are only a certain per- number of people that could possibly get these loans.
22:31
Hmm.
17:27
Mm-hmm.
17:28
And inve- an investigation from Reuters at the end of 2025 talked about, in China specifically, they...
17:35
China does not allow their citizens to use Facebook just to use, but they do allow Chinese companies to advertise on Facebook.
17:42
And out of an $18 billion annual sales for advertisement for Meta from China alone, more than a 10th of that wa- uh, more than a 10th of that accounted for their global revenue, and about 20% of that money, about $3 billion, was coming from ads for scams, illegal gambling, and other banned content.
18:02
Um, and it was known to Meta at the time.
18:05
So we know that Facebook is aware that their ads are fraudulent, and they just let them go anyway because they make a ton of money off of them.
18:14
We're sorry, but there's a profit to be had [laughs]
18:16
Exactly.

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