Tag: criminal deception
AI and ethical creative writing
Like many companies, we grapple with the ethics of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our work, which for us is creating brilliant campaigns for our clients. Over the past year or so, since AI really made itself felt, we’ve hashed and rehashed so many questions, especially around content generation: can we use AI to produce copy for our clients? Should we? If so, how should we? What should we tell them about using AI, if anything? And why should they pay us to use AI when they can do it themselves – for free?
The anatomy of a scam
The rise in finance and accounting cybercrime through phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) has made headlines with massive implications for South African companies with gaps in their payment systems. However, robust financial controls together with strong server, IT, and email monitoring processes aren’t enough if staff aren’t savvy to the psychological tricks scammers use to manipulate people, making them more vulnerable to tricker and deception.
Economic crime and fraud – countering threats from inside and out
Economic crime is harming businesses at a staggering rate throughout the world. Digital innovation and technology has also given rise to new attack surfaces for economic criminals and fraudsters, with the rate of instances growing at exponential levels.