When a scammer meets the Force.

This podcast episode overview highlights evolving social engineering and online fraud trends, including insights from CrowdStrike’s 2025 Global Threat Report (faster breakout times, rising vishing and initial access attacks, abuse of valid accounts, and more malware-free intrusions). It examines industrialized “pig-butchering” romance scams and features a discussion on renting social media ad accounts to enable scams, concluding with an anecdotal “catch of the day.”