Tech Friday with Dave Hatter - Sponsored by Intrust IT - 7/10/2026

So here's a good one for you.

The FBI recently warned about bank spoofing scams.

And this, you know, anytime you have an agency like the FBI warn about something, I strongly, strongly encourage people to pay attention to those warnings, because keep in mind, there's all kinds of cybercrime going on out there all the time.

And another good topic would be lack of prosecution of these crimes.

But when you have an agency like the FBI warn about this, it means that they've seen it a lot.

I'd remind all your listeners, the FBI loves a separate website.

Of course, there's FBI.gov, but there's a separate website called the Internet Crime Complaint Center, IC3.gov, IndigoCharlie3.gov, where you can go and report any sort of cyber fraud, as well as get PSAs and tips like what we're talking about here.

So it's a good site to keep tucked away, to visit it occasionally, see what they're saying out there.

And again, if you find yourself a potential victim, of a crime like what I'm about to explain here, go there and report it.

That's one of the ways they learn about these things and are then able to put out warnings like this bank spoofing thing.

And it gets to the heart, Brian, of something we have talked about many times, the idea of spoofing or illegitimate digital content.

It looks real to the naked eye.

It could be an email.

It could be a text message.

It could be a phone call.

But unfortunately, the source is being hidden behind something that makes it look legit.

So You get an email from your bank, quote unquote, but it's not really from your bank.

In this case, they're saying because it's so easy to spoof a phone number, to make a phone number appear in a text message or for a voice call, that is not the number the call is coming from.

So people are getting calls that appear to come from their bank.

One woman in the USA article that I tried to send you says she lost $40,000.

She got a call.

The number appeared to be from a bank.

She apparently was unaware that this could be a thing.

And as I've said so many times on here, these are professional con artists that are just using technology to get to you.

They will tell you whatever lie they need to say if you answer the phone and take the first bite on that hook.