Not-so-real deals.

This podcast episode summarizes recent social engineering and fraud activity: scammers targeting toll accounts via phone-number-based SUN/ EZ Pass texts, Unit 42's discovery of a large campaign distributing thousands of fraudulent cryptocurrency investment websites and mobile apps using brand impersonation and domain fronting (primarily impacting East Africa and Asia), an alleged $480,000 impersonation scam against a 72-year-old, AI-generated deepfake celebrity ads promoting weight-loss products, and phishing emails impersonating the Social Security Administration.