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TikTok’s Scam Sleuth Wants to Show You How Companies Are Cheating — in a Fun Way

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By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — We live in the golden age of grift. Most of us can’t go a day without at least one scammy text about an unpaid toll or a call from an unknown number with a shockingly human-like AI voice on the other side. The scale of the scam onslaught feels like it’s part of some Faustian bargain we all entered into: In exchange for the miracle of, like, access to all the world’s knowledge and people in our pockets, all…

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TikTok’s scam sleuth wants to show you how companies are cheating — in a fun way

We live in the golden age of grift. Most of us can’t go a day without at least one scammy text about an unpaid toll or a call from an unknown number with a shockingly human-like AI voice on the other side.

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