Smells like scam season is upon us.

A podcast roundup highlights current social engineering and cyber-enabled frauds: E‑ZPass-themed phishing possibly fueled by license plate reader data, romance-scam conditioning tactics, Google’s lawsuit against operators of fake urgent-service listings on Google Maps, and the FTC’s action against a deceptive “AI-powered” passive income e-commerce scheme, along with a community-sourced scam interaction.