Who is winning the scam game?

This CyberWire segment provides a roundup of recent social-engineering and phishing activity: an arrest in a large gold scam targeting elderly victims; a Google-tracked group using social-engineering and phishing to compromise BPOs and steal corporate data for extortion; a surge in QR-code-enabled traffic-violation phishing texts; and a community-flagged fake Google Play Console partnership email — the episode emphasizes verification, slowing down, and security training to defend against these scams.