Singapore has decided that one way to teach people how not to fall for scams is to let them experience one first. A simulated one, thankfully.
Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency is running a six-month National Simulated Scams Exercise, in which volunteers receive simulated robocalls designed to mimic government impersonation scams. The pilot runs through Aug. 31 and is part of Singapore’s broader push to make its population more resilient to increasingly sophisticated digital fraud.
The experiment raises a useful question for businesses, too: If employees can be fooled by increasingly polished calls, messages, deepfakes, and impersonation…
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