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In the 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs
were faked using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book.
Within a few days, your ferret will probably
be faking using the pan, just to get out of the cage or get a treat.
Shark fins could
be faked using the skin of file fishes, perhaps, which have a faster growth rate relative to sharks, or even something synthetic.
Not exact matches
A bad actor or actors
used a
fake LinkedIn profile and copied pictures from another user's Instagram to create a false persona — and successfully drew more than 1,000 investors into the ICO project, which
was called Giza.
And, does it invite start - ups to
fake it,
using wives or girlfriends as the illusory heads of a companies that
are actually run by their husbands or boyfriends?
To some extent, these
are «
faked» shots, but they
are widely
used on television.
What we found
was that bad actors had
used coordinated networks of
fake accounts to interfere in the election: promoting or attacking specific candidates and causes, creating distrust in political institutions, or simply spreading confusion.
As for Anthony Weiner, he
was targeted by the late provocateur Andrew Breitbart and fellow Right - wing activists who
used fake email addresses and pretended to
be underage girls.
One recent illustration
is the
use of
fake FedEx or UPS confirmation emails by hackers.
But while our primary focus
was on traditional threats, we also saw some new behavior in the summer of 2016 when APT28 - related accounts, under the banner of DC Leaks, created
fake personas that
were used to seed stolen information to journalists.
A British businessman
is to sue Facebook for defamation, claiming that it published more than 50
fake adverts
using his name or picture.
Only later did many readers notice that the authors
were not in fact the well - known short - selling firms Muddy Waters and Citron Research, but rather two
fake accounts
using similar names with misspellings: @Mudd1waters and @Citreonresearc.
In experiments, they demonstrated that those honest signals (the term, borrowed from evolutionary biology, refers to behaviors that
are hard to
fake) could
be used to accurately predict the outcome of salary negotiations, group decisions, and speed dating.
And then we have the president
using language that really
is not becoming of the United States president, calling the press the enemy of the people, to see his term «
fake news»
used by authoritarians everywhere to justify cracking down on dissent.
Whether via phishing (tricking someone into providing their financial account information — often via an attachment in an email or a
fake website that purports to sell or give away tickets), an ATM skimmer (which reads and records the card
's information, including password) or point - of - sale malware (like that
used in the 2013 Target breach), it
's not hard for cybercriminals to trick the unsuspecting.
Google, in fact,
is going to
be — or already
is — dealing with
fake news
using the following strategies:
Nicolas De-Meyer, 40,
was identified in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who say he
used a
fake name, «Mark Miller,» to sell hundreds of bottles of the stolen wine to a North Carolina wine dealer he had found on the internet from 2014 to 2016.
The new feature
is largely an attempt to curb
fake accounts and «catfishing,» the act of
using someone else's identity in an attempt to mislead others.
Fast - food chain Chipotle has made a few missteps this year, from
faking a Twitter hack in July, to facing criticism over reports that it might
be changing its standards on the beef it
uses.
At other times, however, donors may not realize that their funds
are going to terror organizations: Extremists also conduct fundraising under
fake charities that indicate donations will
be used for humanitarian purposes, according to an October report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an independent defense and security think - tank.
Ever since «
fake news» first started to get traction during Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it has
been seen by many as primarily a Facebook problem because many hoax and
fake - news creators
use the giant social network as a distribution system.
Besides the privacy scandal, Facebook also has
been dealing with
fake news, the
use of Facebook to spread hate and discord and concerns about social media's effect on people's mental well -
being.
A similar but separate policy will require administrators of large pages to
be verified, which will «make it much harder for people to run pages
using fake accounts, or to grow virally and spread misinformation or divisive content that way,» Zuckerberg writes.
Brands
are also worried about their ads showing up in what
is perceived as «
fake news,» so they
are exercising more caution when
using programmatic advertising, where they automatically buy digital ad spots through a third party.
The most effective
use of reverse psychology for parents hoping to push older kids towards wise choices isn't to actively manipulate them towards your desired aim — i.e. by
fake nonchalantly asking if perhaps your child would like to give up a sport or AP class - but rather to hand control back to a kid who feels like they
're already
being pushed toward a particular future.
Methbot
was said to originate in Russia and
used a network of bots to
fake views of as many as 300 million video ads per day.
Another investigation found that many comments supporting net neutrality
used fake emails and physical addresses, and
were generated
using forms such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Dear FCC.
And even though ingratiation isn't perfect, and even though we know it
's fake, if we don't have anything better and we want to form an impression of the supervisor, we'll
use this imperfect information in the same way we would have
used direct signals from the supervisor.
The FBI agent says De-Meyer denied
using a
fake name, as he
was accused of doing in an indictment unsealed Wednesday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
FreeTaxUSA and TurboTax have the DMARC protocol in place, but neither
are using it to block
fake emails, and H&R Block and TaxAct
are not
using the method at all, the report said.
The Windows version of the Malware exploited a bug in the software language HTML5, increasingly
used to create websites, that caused web browsers like Google (goog) Chrome and Firefox to display a
fake help - support webpage that can't
be closed.
Most notably, Facebook
is engaging its biggest asset — not its algorithms, but its users — to get the 1.8 billion people who
use the platform to identify and call out
fake stories.
Given the vast numbers of people who
use Facebook daily, and the similarly large numbers of users who get a lot of their news there, it
's incumbent on Zuckerberg to
be part of the conversation around how to fix the «
fake news» problem.
«One of the methods that
was used was fake individuals and shell companies had taken mortgages on some of these properties, and for all of them they had produced
fake insurance and title insurance,» he said.
These clearly
fake claims
were quickly called out by other Twitter users, many of whom
were able to
use reverse image searches to show that the online trolls
were using stock photos and other misleading images as «proof» of alleged attacks against white patrons perpetrated by black moviegoers.
The Russian desk, which
was primarily made up of bots and trolls,
used fake social - media accounts to flood the internet with pro-Trump agitprop and made - up news throughout the US presidential campaign, especially in the days leading up to the November election.
«Most reputable data firms
are using proven predictive modeling techniques on an individual level, whereas Cambridge
was guilty of
using fancy
fake science terms on unwitting politicians who do not understand how data analytics work.
In addition to funding expanded marketing, sales and customer service efforts, Kindler says the $ 10 million investment will
be used to develop deeper analytics and more features, including tools to detect malicious
fake sites that often
are created as part of cyberbullying campaigns.
After filing the
fake tax return, identity thieves
are using taxpayers» actual bank account information to have the refund deposited — then, they call to collect.
There
are definitely some «low - hanging fruit mechanisms» that platforms like Facebook and Google can
use, boyd says, including cutting off the economic incentive for
fake news by blocking certain sites from ad networks.
The hacker or hackers who
use the name Impact Team say the $ 20 «Full Delete» service Ashley Madison offered
was fake.
She reportedly told her family she
was going to a sleepover at a friend's house,
used a
fake bank account to buy a plane ticket to Istanbul, then travelled via land to ISIS - controlled Syria.
«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election
is because the commander - in - chief has
used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of
fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.
This number represents
fake accounts of all varieties, the most common
being those that
are used for financially - motivated spam.
UK consumer advice personality Martin Lewis
is taking Facebook to court over «disgusting»
fake advertising
using his name to sell «get - rich - quick» financial schemes.
But as Lewis» samples show, the scammers
are circumventing this prohibition with ease —
using Lewis» image to drive unwitting clicks to a secondary offsite layer of
fake news articles that directly push people towards crypto scams.
It
was based on fraudulent activities and a
Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly
used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign.
Lyons did not say what criteria Facebook or AFP would
use to evaluate photos and videos, or how much a photo could
be edited or doctored before it
is ruled
fake.