There’s a public library making video content on this, but we need more. There should be robust funding of libraries to be able to do this, and also just public figures being sent out to warn people about how scams are perpetrated.
For example, I was about to write to my state reps about a text scam involving the state DMV, but my PA state Rep. Bridget Kosierowski already put a notice out in her newsletter before I had a chance.
There was a story on CBS about another teen who died after being blackmailed with AI generated nude pictures, and the article details all the various legislation they’re proposing for punishment and remedies for this sort of thing. But the reality is that most of these scams targeting Americans and Europeans are perpetrated by people basically being held hostage in overseas scam call centers. The Take It Down Act is only going to work when it comes to domestic revenge porn, not on the kind of industrialized scam operations that Americans are dealing with today.
My letter to reps:
There may be some legislation to attempt to legislate against scams, but the fact is that the perpetrators of these scams are mostly coming from trafficked workers overseas trapped in call centers and being forced to scam Americans and there’s no domestic law that’s going to touch those operations. What we really need to fund public information campaigns. And fund libraries. There’s a library in Ohio that puts out youtube videos describing the latest scams. And we need to have people in positions of leadership and government representatives to speak up about this more.
Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.
I also thanked my state rep for putting out an alert in her newsletter.
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