Never gonna give you up, never gonna take this call.

This podcast episode covers recent social-engineering and fraud activity: a journalist exposed a sophisticated North Korean recruiting scam using fake job interviews and malware-laced coding tests to steal passwords and cryptocurrency; a viral gas-station screw tampering story that investigators found unsubstantiated; a new Maryland law allowing banks to temporarily pause suspicious transactions to protect customers; plus assorted phishing/social-engineering anecdotes and a highlighted scam (‘Catch of the Day’).