How scammers use your data to create personalized tricks that work

The report outlines how active and passive digital footprints are aggregated by scammers through scraping, data breaches, data brokers, and social engineering to enable convincing fraud, including AI voice cloning, photo-based location inference, and targeted government-themed lures. It advises defensive steps: limit and control sharing via privacy settings, use a password manager and MFA, monitor exposure with alerts and breach checks, verify unsolicited requests independently, and keep software and security tools updated with real-time web protection.