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Beware Phishing Chatbots Part 2

Previously I mentioned a fishy chat about investments and day trading that was in all likelihood leading to some kind of phishing scam. What made me cautious there was the chat had started just shortly after another strange chat involving investments and day trading. "Lisa" contacted me on LinkedIn . I wasn't on that platform much so we moved to WhatsApp shortly after (where her phone number was +1 (604) 332-9594). This one had a pretty strange story about how to make easy money, possibly trying to appeal to people who are not averse to cheating the system in order to make too-good-to-be-true instant wealth. It was harder to find image matches on Google Image Search for the pictures she sent, but I did get a few suspicious hits: The post supposedly showing her wearing a green outfit after a run (slide 4) is identical from that of a weight-loss website . Her healthy fruit salad breakfast (slide 5) seems to be somewhat popular, posted by @bubu87879 on Twitter and  @July20