They end up getting pulled into the climactic event of the movie: She has to impersonate a prostitute and he has to impersonate a pimp.
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As evidence of Mr. Chikli's involvement, prosecutors pointed to the similarities between the scheme to impersonate company executives and the one to impersonate Mr. Le Drian.
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You know, I am – people impersonate me, you know.
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Ferrell and Bridges aren't the only comics to impersonate Bush.
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Vasilchenko would also allegedly impersonate Americans or U.S. grassroots organizations.
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Instead, he addressed who should impersonate him on Saturday Night Live.
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A revolving door of schlubby comedians pop up to impersonate him.
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Ishii volunteered to impersonate the child's father at a school interview.
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Valimail helps businesses ensure that nobody can impersonate them over email.
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Truly, we knew nothing about her ability to impersonate her castmates.
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We're not trying to impersonate women, so that has not changed.
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That should stop thieves who are trying to impersonate your child.
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That can allow groups to get inside systems and impersonate employees.
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The show investigates online relationships and exposes people who impersonate others online.
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What about the fake third nipple you wore to impersonate Lee's Scaramanga?
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Mimic or impersonate an opponent or game official in a negative manner.
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Scammers love to impersonate people of authority, and that includes service members.
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This, obviously, makes it much harder for someone to impersonate another voter.
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Twitter has systems for reporting accounts that attempt to impersonate a brand.
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Looking at his photo, you'd wonder why someone would choose to impersonate him.
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And if Kate McKinnon can impersonate you, it's just a matter of time.
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But, a word to the wise: Don't. Ever. Impersonate. Bruno. Mars. Wearing. Blackface.
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He insists that she impersonate his wife so he can collect her inheritance.
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Scams whose perpetrators impersonate government officials are reportedly at an all-time high.
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Bronze, clay, marble, and wood have all been manipulated to impersonate living flesh.
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And grab your most grandiose garments and a wig to successfully impersonate Moira.
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They could even one day use voice manipulation technology to impersonate that person.
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At one point, it even uses a female voice actor to impersonate Tibbetts's voice.
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Now they are combatting business owners to keep their right to impersonate for money.
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It should be random, because if hackers can predict the number, they'll impersonate you.
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It would be difficult, though not impossible, to impersonate someone with their Aadhaar number.
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That gives them an opportunity to impersonate that party and try to intercept funds.
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Scammers commonly impersonate charities after tragedies to get money or personal information from taxpayers.
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The Duchess of Sussex is trying to stop fans from trying to impersonate her.
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Several adults before her have attempted to impersonate minors, for a variety of reasons.
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And this is perhaps what makes Mr. Swenson such an appealing figure to impersonate.
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During a campaign event in 2015, he used broken English to impersonate Asian negotiators.
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And, a little later in the week, why Did Miley Cyrus Impersonate Dolly Parton?
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There are three things Marc Martel says he won't do to impersonate Freddie Mercury.
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I feel like I picked a very kind woman to impersonate on the internet.
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Or use the Duplex assistant to impersonate you, making calls and reservations in your name.
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The hackers also used the phone to hijack Mr. Terpin's Skype account to impersonate him.
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As for who will impersonate Holmes on the big screen, we already know the answer.
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So I got my friend's big brother's girlfriend to impersonate my mom on the phone.
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In fact, she joins a long list of celebrities who've attempted to impersonate Miss Brit.
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The scammers will attempt to impersonate the child's voice, and tend to target wealthy people.
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Now, with her login ID and control over her phone number, I could impersonate her.
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Meatloaf, they write, is the "Talented Mr. Ripley" of food because it can impersonate anything.
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Yes, there are times in which people impersonate someone else at the ballot box intentionally.
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They might try to impersonate obscure local law enforcement agencies and submit forged court orders.
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Some criminals impersonate the Internal Revenue Service, threatening people into wiring money or sharing financial information.
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The fraudsters typically impersonate the company's higher-value employees, like the CFO or CEO, Nyberg said.
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They impersonate, copy, deceive, threaten, sabotage, and even bribe Amazon employees for information on their competitors.
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This person continues to impersonate and harass me and twitter needs to take the account down.
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It is not clear if the FBI sought permission from FedEx to digitally impersonate the company.
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The resulting photographs — shot against deep, black backgrounds and printed in exquisite resolution — impersonate formal portraits.
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And YouTube has a few "prank" videos where the pranksters impersonate Apple store employees with ease.
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He also said he darkened his skin during the 1980s to impersonate pop star Michael Jackson.
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Northam at one point discussed having worn blackface to impersonate Michael Jackson for a dance contest.
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We asked former big leaguers Sean Casey and Cliff Floyd to impersonate their favorite batting stances.
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Callers often impersonate officials or authority figures and prey on the elderly, students or the unemployed.
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The malicious apps can also impersonate Alexa or Google Home to ask users for sensitive information.
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So, what keeps you interested in Morrissey to impersonate him and his music for a living?
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"We can help protect against someone using your photo to impersonate you," the information page says.
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Such information could help a spy agency impersonate a Yandex user and access their private messages.
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Last month, Buckley claimed that a fake Twitter account was created to impersonate New Hampshire Democrats.
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That is why I decided to impersonate Western religious figures and English noblewomen in my photographs.
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He also said he darkened his skin during the 1980s to impersonate pop star Michael Jackson.
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Sometimes your love for animals is so strong that you feel the need to impersonate them.
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But Vigilance claimed he could impersonate a Minnesota government employee, or an official, if he wanted.
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It's more likely that people are stricken by lightning than if they impersonate someone at the polls.
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You could, for example, don a whimsical outfit and impersonate your favorite Disney hero this October 31.
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"Attacker" refers to the volunteer wearing the hat; "victim" refers to the figure they're trying to impersonate.
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Still, like the cops they might impersonate, ICE agents can and do fall afoul of the law.
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He embodies Han without every trying to impersonate Harrison Ford, which is good because no one can.
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Why put that kind of pressure on someone when you can have someone else impersonate them hosting?
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Some of these tactics are specific, like slightly misspelling a major account's Twitter handle to impersonate it.
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But that could also mean that someone is trying to impersonate the other person in your conversation.
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However, it comes amid warnings that foreign operatives have in the past sought to impersonate political candidates.
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" On "Waybach," a song from the new album, he raps, "All these folks impersonate me like Elvis.
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The new policies are aimed at curbing political advertisers' attempts to mask their identities or impersonate others.
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Some criminals use stolen credentials to impersonate customers, breach loyalty profiles and then tap into separate accounts.
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Multiple accounts that impersonate the Bernie Sanders campaign or Donald Trump have popped up on the app.
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The governor has said he did wear blackface once to impersonate Michael Jackson at a dance contest.
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Other scammers are taking advantage of Hurricane Dorian to impersonate a weatherman and solicit relief on Facebook.
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Ralph Northam has admitted darkening his face with shoe polish to impersonate Michael Jackson in the 1980s.
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Naturally, you can also impersonate specific high-profile people, which opens up a whole new set of strategies.
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Take SIM hijacking for example, the increasingly common scam where criminals impersonate victims and steal their phone numbers.
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If the Skrulls can impersonate Hill and Fury, we don't know who else may actually be a Skrull.
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The social media service is automatically locking down Twitter accounts that try to impersonate the famous tech CEO.
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But he has said he wore blackface to impersonate Michael Jackson in a dance contest in the 22007s.
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Finally, Google has banned applications which primarily serve ads, or which attempt to impersonate a person or organization.
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Prosecutors say Thompson used fake email accounts to impersonate his ex-girlfriend when he sent the bomb threats.
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Considering the bug allowed anyone to impersonate anyone else on Twitter, that sum might seem a bit low.
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In "Alps" (2012), members of a cultlike organization impersonate the recently deceased for the benefit of the bereaved.
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The last point would presumably be helpful for identifying accounts that may be trying to impersonate other users.
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Uber allegedly created fake riders using SIM cards to impersonate customers and reverse engineer the competition's products. 5.
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We were five girls in our class, and one week, we decided that we'd impersonate the Spice Girls.
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A few even tried to impersonate the bot, which was vastly preferable from our perspective and rather amusing.
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In some states — but not Indiana — it's considered rape by deception if you impersonate a spouse or partner.
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For instance, Google acknowledges hackers sometimes attempt to impersonate someone who has been locked out of their account.
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Hackers are increasingly using fake email addresses to impersonate their victims&apos colleagues and access sensitive company information.
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Here are Reddit's updated policies: Do not impersonate an individual or entity in a misleading or deceptive manner.
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Crooks may impersonate clients in an attempt to fool employees at the firm into wiring money to them.
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"SNL hasn't figured out a regular cast person to impersonate her yet for them to copy," he says.
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But you can make it a bit harder for hackers to impersonate you with gullible tech support employees.
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"We've seen them impersonate people within the company, or impersonate airlines sending ticketing information or vendors and customers of the company sending files," Mr. Cidon said, adding that all businesses, from mom-and-pop shops to giant Silicon Valley companies like Facebook and Google, were getting hit by ransomware attacks.
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They can be used to impersonate the ME, Server Platform Services, and Trusted Execution Engine to erode security verifications.
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Crowe doesn't impersonate Ailes so much as inhabit him, from his padded waddle to his thunderous bouts of anger.
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Encryption makes it harder for someone to "impersonate" our site by forwarding you to a fake version of Wired.
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You may not impersonate an Oculus employee, partner, representative, other real person or encourage other users to do so.
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The goal was to not only impersonate Burton but to distill the self-destructive genius down to his essence.
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Masahiro Mori realized nearly 50 years ago that tools appearing to impersonate people in any way could provoke hate.
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While your driver's license isn't exactly personal identification, having that information makes it that much easier to impersonate you.
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But one of the downsides of viral popularity is that people will undoubtedly impersonate you online with fake accounts.
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And Spider Man: Far From Home star Tom Holland, it seems, is a popular choice to impersonate these days.
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Once they had that, they could impersonate them with T-Mobile's customer support staff and steal their phone numbers.
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That's important, because users have tried to impersonate people like António Guterres, who is now the UN Secretary-General.
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Hader, in costume as a witch doctor, was asked to impersonate Al Pacino, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Vincent Price.
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Unlike counterfeiting, the goal is not to replicate the original product, but rather to impersonate the entire brand itself.
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"I was both shocked and furious that someone had tried to impersonate me," Mr. Gilad wrote in an affidavit.
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Repeatedly, they took whole directories of credentials, a brazen act netting them the ability to impersonate hundreds of employees.
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The tactics are commonly used by scammers, who lure in victims by using dialing software to impersonate real government agencies.
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From Cher to the Fab Five, take a look at some of the absolute best celebs to impersonate this year.
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In a feat of ingenious costuming, the wily toad has learned to impersonate the venomous Gaboon viper to fool predators.
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Deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee Congressman Keith Ellison, he dawned a blonde wig to impersonate the President recently.
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Deepfake videos have been known to impersonate well-known figures, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and former President Barack Obama.
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Though again, the simple disguises were still better at fooling the volunteers than the disguises made to impersonate someone else.
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Instead, he decided to impersonate me to various past dates until he could present an ironclad case and confront me.
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Speaking of women who can impersonate white winged doves, rock legend Stevie Nicks was next to show off a talent.
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This protects against criminals who can impersonate you and trick cellphone companies into giving them control of your telephone number.
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Amid the chaos, Joey puts on all of Chandler's clothes at once in an attempt to hyperbolically impersonate his roommate.
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Power to me means… Being authentic and real; not trying to meet other people's expectations or impersonate somebody else's ideal.
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With a script called "DOCTOR," ELIZA could impersonate a psychotherapist and identify certain words and phrases before formulating a response.
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If other people know your account password, they can effectively impersonate you, and change all the settings inside your account.
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Heck, maybe a hunky teen popstar desperately needs you to impersonate his singing partner at the upcoming Italian Music Awards.
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Obama lowered her voice several octaves to impersonate the president lecturing his daughters on global warming at the dinner table.
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When it comes to glamorous drag, men who impersonate women have traditionally had an unfair advantage over their female counterparts.
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He can deploy nuclear weapons, threaten Solid Snake's friends with death, and even impersonate Snake's long-time mentor Master Miller.
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Remember that one time Lizzie McGuire ran off to Rome with an Italian pop star to help impersonate another singer?
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Mr Watkins also points out that America even seems to have used falsified transponder numbers to impersonate Iranian planes on occasion.
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And don't forget: Political comedy has had a long time to get to know and learn how to impersonate Hillary Clinton.
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Since they weren't nominated for anything, they figured they could steal a trophy by sending someone to impersonate a famous actor.
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Naturally, Holmes is quite imitable...which is why, upon watching the HBO documentary, many people did their best to impersonate her.
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Late last year, the company expanded its ads policies to include rules against "fake news" sites that impersonate legitimate media organizations.
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That is, by sending fraudulent e-mails with legitimate-seeming details, hackers can now impersonate almost anyone's identity — and they are.
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Chinese companies have been known to hire foreigners to impersonate executives at events, presumably to lend an air of international legitimacy.
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Whether it's done to impersonate someone else, bully someone or even just pull a prank, it happens more than you'd think.
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Most would also agree, then, that the wig that Charli XCX wore to impersonate him should be tossed in a fire.
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"This is my normal body," he said, when asked if he had to put on weight to impersonate the North's leader.
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Bringing back Broadway star Laura Benanti to impersonate Melania, Colbert did an "interview" via satellite, which led to some hilarious moments.
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The first indication that it was going to go wrong was when Trixie said that she was going to impersonate RuPaul.
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Generally, thieves are looking for information that lets them impersonate someone authorized to initiate a transfer, said Guardian CEO Laurent Pacalin.
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But it could make it easier for someone to obtain your signatures and "replay" them in your absence to impersonate you.
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"Face recognition technology allows us to help protect you from a stranger using your photo to impersonate you," the company said.
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The agency said Tuesday that scammers will impersonate charities to take advantage of people who want to help natural-disaster victims.
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They will spread misinformation through fake think tanks and fake research and use accounts or user names that impersonate real people.
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In this case, predators may impersonate active-duty soldiers on dating sites and then sweet talk victims out of their cash.
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The policy bans everything from artificially increasing "distribution for financial gain" to using fake accounts to impersonate other people and businesses.
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The callers tend to target the wealthy, and will sometimes put someone on the phone who can impersonate the child's voice.
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He doesn't impersonate those people, exactly, but sketches them for us as they might be seen through Harry's or Philip's eyes.
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For months, that account sought to impersonate the official Republican Party of Tennessee, until Twitter shut it down in August 2017.
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What is true power in fashion if not the ability to hire one of the world's biggest celebrities to impersonate you?
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Against advisement, Asia and The Vixen chose to impersonate the publicly closed-mouthed moving images Beyoncé and Blue Ivy Carter, respectively.
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In this case, the thief may impersonate a high-ranking executive and send a request for workers' W-2s, said Lapidus.
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By forging these cookies, attackers were able to impersonate valid users, gaining information and performing actions on behalf of their victims.
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The autotune is also really funny and fun to impersonate—making it a clear karaoke banger that will probably get you laid.
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And what on Earth made you think that you could impersonate a guy whose handle is El33thx0r, and get away with it?
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But there are benefits, especially if you are a major celebrity or someone whom others on the service might want to impersonate.
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Unlike Kremlin-based accounts, which impersonated both sides of the political aisle, most of those Iranian-linked accounts appeared to impersonate liberals.
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In multiple cases, offenders have gone so far as to fake their own deaths and impersonate our clients to deliver bomb threats.
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For example, a photo ID requirement is supposed to make it more difficult for someone to impersonate another voter on Election Day.
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In general, I think transparency is the best practice, and humans should not (as general guidance) impersonate a bot, and vice versa.
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Say you want to impersonate another successful service, or just rip people off, scammers need to entice customers just like anyone else.
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Sift is looking at all my online activity to make sure it's me, and not someone trying to impersonate or hack me.
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Instead, we recommend buying this convenient wig and visor combo, which will allow you to impersonate the food expert whenever you please.
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Likewise, information about you found on social media accounts and cloud-storage sites can also be used to more convincingly impersonate you.
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Spear phishing is the use of email created by bad actors that impersonate a known company or individual that a user trusts.
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The clever malware is able to impersonate various models of smartphones while it goes wild clicking online ads and draining your battery.
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The more AI seeks to impersonate humans, the more the technology will be judged by human standards of etiquette and emotional intelligence.
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For the most part, apps like Prisma depend on curated training sets to impersonate style and apply it to a new context.
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We haven't confirmed this, but we're going to go ahead and guess that judges don't look kindly upon people who impersonate them.
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BROOKER There was another one more recently that was even more insidious — a company offering a service that will impersonate your relatives.
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They included business schemes where fraudsters hack escrow company email systems, impersonate employees and direct payments that funnel money back to themselves.
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There's no step in the process that would flag, for example, a large submission that seemed to impersonate a lot of people.
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YouTubers voiced their frustration and concerns about the change, including that it could make it easier for bad actors to impersonate them.
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The first time the producers at "Saturday Night Live" asked him to impersonate Donald J. Trump, he said, he was completely unprepared.
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Even if they're stray dogs who figure out how to impersonate a person in a trench coat to buy Doritos at a supermarket.
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As for whether Baldwin plans to impersonate Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner, he says he's up for it, although it's unlikely.
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Gillian Anderson is one of the most charismatic, magnetic, talented actresses around so it feels just right that she would impersonate David Bowie.
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But ensuring that users can't impersonate someone else in their profile photo is also important in Facebook's fight against so-called fake news.
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Mendes, who was asked to impersonate Nick, was told by those in studio that his attempt sounded more like Australian actor Chris Hemsworth.
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The episode became a laughing matter for press and readers who wondered why anyone would want to impersonate Johnny Bratton, of all people.
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When it came time to impersonate Tina Turner, Beyoncé and Madonna, Latifah employed dance moves – which earned her more correct guesses from DeGeneres.
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It began as a panicked reaction to former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa suing the company for allowing someone to impersonate him.
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And, Levin warned, if it seems like a fraudster would be less likely to impersonate someone with a bad credit score — think again.
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A central repository of keys would be a magnet for cyber-crooks, who could use them to impersonate and defraud ordinary internet users.
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"If you can impersonate a person, you can request a ballot, you could submit changes to a system," said Smith, of Verified Voting.
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Spicer has told her to "dial back" the impression of him, and Trump reportedly disliked seeing a woman impersonate his top communications aide.
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I have to pee, but I'm holding it in," Baldwin said in the voice he uses to impersonate Trump on "Saturday Night Live.
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The group would sometimes use the stolen personally identifiable information to impersonate victims and set up new phone accounts, the indictment reads reads.
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She works and works and then gets snubbed for her performance in "Arrival" because Florence Foster Jenkins over there can impersonate a teakettle.
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Little girls are likely to be angels with feathered wings, while their older, curly-haired sisters are apt to impersonate ancient Roman beauties.
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Now Facebook and Instagram provide fraudsters with greater reach and resources, enabling them to more convincingly impersonate others and more precisely target victims.
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Ask American urbanites to impersonate an idiot and many make a vocal pilgrimage to the rural south to borrow a suitably twangy drawl.
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"Industry-standard technologies exist, which, if enabled, would make it significantly harder for fraudsters and foreign governments to impersonate federal agencies," he wrote.
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Many of Mr. Thakkar's nearly 700 young employees would call United States citizens, impersonate I.R.S. agents and demand immediate payment for unpaid taxes.
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The data also contained usernames and passwords of TrueDialog's customers, which if used could have been used to access and impersonate their accounts.
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As Smith learns to impersonate King, Johnson uses the parallel to explore how society determines what makes one man great and another not.
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Thompson went to great lengths to deceive his editors, creating an email account to impersonate a source and lying about his reporting methods.
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When you share your number with a lender, landlord, potential employer or your dentist, there's nothing stopping them from using it to impersonate you.
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Screenshot: Andrew Liszewski (Google)Google could soon have a feature that lets your phone impersonate people—because consumer-facing artificial intelligence isn't terrifying enough.
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Trump himself had claimed in an interview with The New York Times' columnist Maureen Dowd that he didn't impersonate a publicist named John Miller.
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The big picture: It's nothing new for Cozy Bear to impersonate government officials, or anyone else who could lure people into downloading a file.
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Saturday Night Live got everyone's attention when the show announced that Alec Baldwin would be joining the cast to impersonate presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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That's a problem because around tax season, scammers obtain tax returns or filings — through leaks or breaches — and use that information to impersonate taxpayers.
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But the big concern is that it could be used to impersonate politicians and make them appear to say or do things they haven't.
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The data included Social Security numbers, birth dates and other sensitive information that could allow criminals to impersonate real taxpayers and file fraudulent returns.
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The 22-year-old recently attempted to impersonate fellow former teen pop star Miley Cyrus, 23, in his friend and singer Khalil's Snapchat story.
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Instead, he would give the criminals private information about the targets, which would help them impersonate the victim and take over their phone number.
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It appears that some reckless online scammer has decided that of all the celebrities to impersonate, they'd like to take a stab at Oprah.
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Every couple of weeks Alec Baldwin takes the stage of NBC's Studio 113H, the longtime home of "Saturday Night Live," to impersonate President Trump.
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"Face recognition technology allows us to help protect you from a stranger using your photo to impersonate you," Facebook told its users in Europe.
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Ms. Marston herself, in a ballet she had previously choreographed, had asked one of the group dancers to impersonate a cello, and it worked.
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A voice that can contact human beings and impersonate them reasonably well, including using filler words like "um," is a remarkable feat of AI engineering.
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A voice that can contact human beings and impersonate them reasonably well, including using filler words like "um," is a remarkable feat of AI engineering.
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But a malicious site that can impersonate a legit URL and depict that padlock leaves precious few tip-offs that you're dealing with an imposter.
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Detectives learned from the attorney that he did not represent Antoine, who is accused of creating a fictitious e-mail account to impersonate the attorney.
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Some scammers impersonate well-known professors on Slack, others even tried—and failed—to scam our own cryptocurrency expert in residence and editor Jordan Pearson.
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The agency could, for instance, disrupt communications, interrupt or divert financial transactions, impersonate anyone other than a police officer, even interfere with a person's movements.
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They also target and even impersonate Oprah Winfrey, who has campaigned heavily for Abrams, even knocking on doors in Georgia to get out the vote.
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Once stolen, that token could be used to impersonate the gamer and log in as if they were the account holder, without needing their password.
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The volunteers were even less accurate when the disguised models were only trying to obscure their true identity, rather than trying to impersonate another model.
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A few days earlier one of Microsoft's bots, "Tay", designed to impersonate a millennial, started parroting racist language it had learned from users on Twitter.
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But with the daughter in ill health, only a clever female operative could travel alone to Germany, impersonate the daughter and lead Donat to freedom.
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This time they targeted alleged tech support scammers, who impersonate computer technicians from well known companies in order to sell victims unnecessary or harmful services.
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But Rhodes followed her and got down on his knees to impersonate a Muslim praying before cursing about Islam and ISIS, according to law enforcement.
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Anyone could "basically impersonate the parents, which is creepy," Tod Beardsley, the security research manager at Rapid7, the firm who studied the device, told Motherboard.
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I could start mining ethereum; I could become a landlord overnight; I could even impersonate a bored computer to scrape together some pocket company. Nah.
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Aside from showing up to your door, scammers could try to impersonate the CDC or other health officials through social media, emails, texts and websites.
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Kishore told CNN that he doesn't know why Patel decided to impersonate an elderly person, or what what the current status of his case is.
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In elementary schools, costumed Jane Austens are found alongside another inaccurately mythologized historical giant, George Washington, on ever-popular "impersonate a famous dead person" days.
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Northam, 59, acknowledged last weekend to having worn blackface - a practice dating to 19th century minstrel shows caricaturing slaves - in 1984 to impersonate Michael Jackson.
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A media backlash ensued, and critics renewed old fears about the implications of unleashing AI agents that can impersonate the behavior of humans in indistinguishable ways.
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But now it's clear those trolls went a step further: Actually stealing the identities of real Americans to impersonate US voices online and hide their tracks.
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If developers catch phishing sites trying to impersonate their domains, they can report them to domain registrars, browsers, and ask certificate authorities to revoke the certificates.
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Yuscavitch describes an early wake up call in 2012 when an advertiser entered the network's system, then immediately changed its site address to impersonate the E!
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Suggested seeds include precrime, thoughtcrime, impersonation, algorithmic errors and bugs, and bots that can impersonate not just chat patterns but entire corpus of human prosthetic intelligence.
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Coupled with other tricks, the flaw could allow scammers to impersonate you and even spread fake messages to your mates on the Facebook-owned chat app.
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It doesn't take much for Larry David to impersonate Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders — after all, both are balding, somewhat grouchy old Jewish men from Brooklyn.
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But it does, because the more that people rely on Google's brevity to impersonate or augment their communication, the more homogeneous we become to one another.
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Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Here's Argentinian soccer stud Ezequiel Lavezzi striking that stupid pose racist people do when trying to impersonate a Chinese person.
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If you make a mistake at work, and a disgruntled client or customer demands to see your supervisor, you can hire Ishii to impersonate the supervisor.
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"Rick Scott is doing his best to impersonate Latin American dictators who have overthrown Democracies in Venezuela and Cuba," the state party said in a statement.
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That means incoming emails could impersonate the contractor and fraudulently ask a victim to transfer money for unpaid bills or log in to a phishing website.
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"Callers impersonate themselves as cartel members or corrupt police officers who claim they've kidnapped a loved one and demand a ransom," podcast host Mollie Halpern said.
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Last year, the Department of Homeland Security revealed that Washington, DC was littered with so-called stingray devices, which impersonate cell towers to eavesdrop on communications.
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Because many of the accounts impersonate Army soldiers, the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, which investigates crimes involving Army personnel, has become a repository for victims' complaints.
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From the perspective of an attacker, if the goal is to impersonate people or hijack their accounts, you have names, phone numbers, and associated account URLs.
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Of all of the celebrities one could choose to impersonate, Ben Affleck—back-tattooed, kind of cancelled, visibly sad Ben Affleck—is a slightly baffling pick.
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Jeffrey Gardere, a psychologist and associate professor at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, said there could be different issues driving someone to impersonate a missing child.
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Ralph Northam and state Attorney General Mark Herring -- that they had put on blackface in their younger years to impersonate Michael Jackson and Kurtis Blow, respectively.
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Op-Ed Contributor SYDNEY, Australia — In the United States, painting yourself black to impersonate a person of color is considered a particularly grotesque form of racism.
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This means that someone who has the ability to, so to speak, steal your cellphone number can then impersonate you and log into your Telegram account.
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However, it does mean your friends need to be on their guard against attempts to impersonate you, and they need to keep their own accounts well protected.
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If all we wanted to do was have publishers say "hey browser, I trust Google to impersonate me" that would be trivial (CDNs effectively already do this).
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One court filing describes him creating a Trello card that listed hundreds of domains of real websites they were planning to impersonate as part of the scheme.
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In theory, Twitter's blue "verified" check mark made it harder to impersonate famous people, but in practice it mostly showed who was famous enough to bother impersonating.
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Headphone maker Sennheiser has patched its software after the company admitted a serious vulnerability that made it easy for hackers to impersonate any website — even encrypted pages.
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The UNHCR also called for action to hold smugglers and traffickers accountable after receiving "reliable reports" that they impersonate UNHCR staff at disembarkation platforms and migrant hubs.
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We're now living in the era of deepfakes, where anyone with enough skill in audiovisual manipulation can impersonate world leaders and put words in other peoples' mouths.
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In the last few years, Iran's government has aggressively tried to impersonate activists or journalists in order to hack others through phishing emails or even phone calls.
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You can also have her impersonate you via email, although there's always a risk of that ending in embarrassment if she is not highly responsible and trustworthy.
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The group used a silicone mask to impersonate a French defense minister in video calls, asking wealthy individuals and groups to pay millions for fake government operations.
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"For example, without the right security measures in place, a bad actor can easily impersonate a remote employee" and introduce malware into your company's network, Freire said.
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And scammers take many shapes — phishers are most likely to impersonate email providers (42%), cloud services (25%), financial institutions (13%), e-commerce (5%) and delivery companies (3.9%).
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Stone's legal team on Friday said that he wasn't threatening Credico -- he was merely making a joke to Credico about a fictional character whom Credico can impersonate.
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The scariest threats yet may be the plots in which criminals impersonate an adviser, an employee or even a family member to get approval for a transaction.
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Teaching the audience everything she knows and loves about carb-laden loaves, Vaynblat, a participant in Comedy Central's Digital Creators Program, will impersonate the Icelandic singer Bjork.
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HUNTER BOTS One of Twitter's vilest subcultures is its collection of minstrel accounts, which impersonate Jews and people of color in order to mock and discredit them.
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That was when Lady Chan, the governor's widow, and her sister, Lady Mook, convinced Thalang's women to impersonate male soldiers and hold positions on the city's walls.
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A U.S. security firm on Monday said a Russian hacker group is likely responsible for a phishing campaign that used emails to impersonate a State Department employee.
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In this case, it may have required the hackers to have personal details that would allow them to convincingly impersonate one of Silicon Valley's best-known figures.
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That was when Lady Chan, the governor's widow, and her sister, Lady Mook, persuaded Thalang's women to impersonate male soldiers and hold positions on the city's walls.
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Bradley said that it is rare for a robber to impersonate a police officer, but added that he isn't surprised that such an act would occur in Rio.
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Some individuals will also pilfer sensitive data, such as Social Security numbers and medical records, to sell to a third party who can use it to impersonate someone.
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National TV frequently airs shows that involve artists and comedians wearing blackface to impersonate celebrities and public figures such as Michael Jackson and former US president Barack Obama.
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At the time, Vanity Fair accused the 27-year-old of "terrorizing" the festival and offered some humorous "pro tips" on how he could better impersonate a celeb.
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After taking a short break from playing President-elect Donald Trump, Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend to once again impersonate the former reality star.
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You'll see the three little pigs pop up on your screen, and an AR mask lets you become the big bad wolf when you might impersonate his voice.
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Love him or hate him, he's just the kind of person on Twitter someone might try to impersonate (they could wreak havoc with his way-right-leaning followers).
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Facebook confirmed it has previously taken action on content that has included the alleged illegal sale of regulated products, trade of wildlife and efforts to impersonate an individual.
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It also said that some RSF members had been attacked and that people had put on their uniforms to impersonate them in an attempt to harm their reputation.
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" Block said in an email: "The company's use of investigators to impersonate journalists and government officials shows management's disregard for ethics and rules, and further reeks of desperation.
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Baldwin, who has returned to SNL on a recurring basis to impersonate Trump, sounds like he's tired of playing the president and receiving constant criticism of his portrayal.
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But the couple have split up, so Art pays a stranger, Lux, whom he met at a bus stop, to travel with him to Cornwall and impersonate Charlotte.
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Baldwin, who has appeared on "SNL" frequently throughout the last year to impersonate the new president, had until now tied with comedian Steve Martin at 16 shows hosted.
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He later changed his story, saying he did not believe he was pictured, but had performed in blackface to impersonate the singer Michael Jackson at about that time.
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Before T-Mobile patched the bug on October 10, hackers had been taking advantage of it to pull customers' personal data and then use it to impersonate them.
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Con artists also impersonate a relative or friend pleading to be bailed out of jail or swept up in a travel emergency and in need of a loan.
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The queens were assigned divas to impersonate — Trixie Mattel got Dolly Parton; Aja, Amy Winehouse; Thorgy Thor, Stevie Nicks — pairings that felt surprisingly considerate of each queen's strengths.
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A statement from Metzger, also shared in the Facebook post from Brewing News, explained that he was attempting to impersonate the sort of "reactionaries" who support President Trump.
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Brittany Vasseur, a YouTube creator with over 1.2 million subscribers, told CNN Business bad actors have copied her videos and tried to impersonate her to scam her followers.
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Hackers are increasingly using phoney email addresses to impersonate their victims&apos colleagues – with a new report suggesting such attacks have risen 400% in a matter of months.
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But the relaunch did little to quell the negativity, and trolls had recently found a way to infiltrate the app to impersonate Renner and others to harass fans.
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Asked by a theatrical friend to impersonate a character on a drive-time radio show's matchmaking segment, she falls for the voice of the man playing opposite her.
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Thompson fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name.
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The committee said those handles "impersonate[ed] U.S. news entities, political parties, and groups focused on social and political issues," in a memo it released along with the accounts.
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For example, AI can learn specific linguistic patterns, making it easier to adapt the technology to manipulate people, impersonate victims, and stage vishing (voice phishing) attacks and similar activities.
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Gizmodo found nearly 143 Twitter accounts that appeared to impersonate 214 different real women to push diet pills, regularly getting thousands of retweets and tens of thousands of likes.
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"A lot of the information that you would need to impersonate a businesses is publicly available," Vecci told CNBC, including names of corporate officers, email addresses and phone numbers.
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In 1995, House Republicans invited Chris Farley, who'd been impersonating Speaker Newt Gingrich on "SNL," to impersonate him to his face at the conference meeting while Gingrich laughed along.
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The app, called Voatz, also has problems with how it handles authentication between the voter's mobile phone and the backend server, allowing an attacker to impersonate a user's phone.
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Veronica, knowing about the secret meeting between the Blossoms and Hiram, confronts her father; he denies it but Veronica asks Hiram if he had Claudius impersonate the Black Hood.
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In February 513, Davette See was hired by a woman living in the San Francisco Bay area to impersonate her at a birthday party in the Los Angeles area.
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In a final coda to the exhibition, a set of two small works are hung around the corner in the gallery's office, much like the motivational posters they impersonate.
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Amid calls for him to resign, Northam denied being in the yearbook photo but said he did darken his skin once to impersonate Michael Jackson in a dance contest.
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Hackers can use AI-driven programs to quickly scan networks to find weak points, or predictive text functions to impersonate insiders and trick targets into handing over sensitive information.
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In order to find a model who could properly impersonate the long-dead artist, Coupland crowd-sourced the planet, eventually receiving over a thousand entries from 37 different countries.
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Deciding he did not feel like being photographed for The Times article, for instance, he got another man in The Spectator office to impersonate him in the photo session.
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At the Family Romance company in Tokyo, 1,200 actors stand ready to impersonate, for a price, a child's absent father, for years on end, or a wife's adulterous lover.
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Thieves can still take control of your accounts, or find ways to impersonate you to steal your income-tax refunds, or use your information to get free medical care.
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That, in turn, would allow the attacker to use the same Proxmark device to impersonate the key inside the car, disabling the immobilizer and letting them start the engine.
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These devices, made by the Harris Corporation, impersonate cell towers to intercept texts, calls, emails and other data; they can also locate cellphones and thus the people using them.
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The company added that it would terminate YouTube channels that tried to impersonate another person or channel, conceal their country of origin, or hide an association with the government.
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Northam originally admitted to being in the photo, but then said he was not -- but that he did wear blackface once to impersonate Michael Jackson at a dance contest.
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" Yet as the Mother Jones article pointed out, Twitter users "may not impersonate others, publish copyrighted material without consent, release private information about others, or issue specific violent threats.
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"I write to ask you to take immediate steps to ensure that hackers cannot send emails that impersonate federal agencies," Wyden wrote Tuesday to Jeanette Manfra, the DHS official.
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However, as the hacking of Cole's account shows, as long as hackers can find target's phone numbers and impersonate them with their carriers, these hacks are likely to continue.
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For years, Volkswagen struggled with a flaw in the Megamos transponder that allowed hackers to impersonate a key fob and drive off with cars that would otherwise have been immobilized.
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Using information gleaned from social media and hacking, they impersonate top executives and convince employees to route money to accounts they control, ostensibly to do business deals or pay suppliers.
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By hacking verified accounts, they're able to impersonate Musk without being locked out, and the scam is even more believable with the little blue checkmark next to the familiar name.
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Xiaomi has a security warning during the setup of face unlock that it's less secure than other unlocking methods, as others can impersonate you using a photograph or similar object.
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We're here for Tobias trying to impersonate every Bluth, for Maeby's "teeth guy," for the robotic remnants of his Army hand that have Buster feeling, once again, like a monster.
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The story does, however, show that phone location data tracking services can be used by individuals who impersonate law enforcement, and shoot wildly around innocent civilians, putting them in danger.
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When the boys' coach refuses to let her on the team, Viola devises a plan to impersonate her MIA brother, Sebastian, at the new high school he's supposed to attend.
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IMSI-catchers — which law enforcement, militaries and spies use — impersonate legitimate cell towers and trick phones and other devices in their vicinity into connecting to them instead of legitimate towers.
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When Hilary Mason, a data scientist and entrepreneur, discovered that dozens of automated "bot" accounts had sprung up to impersonate her on Twitter, she immediately set out to stop them.
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It would amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit candidates and political parties from using any bots intended to impersonate or replicate human activity for public communication.
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Facebook also announced a few updates to its chat service Messenger, including a Facebook verified badge that would show up in chats to help fight scammers who impersonate public figures.
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The company fixed the flaw once Motherboard informed the company of the issue, but the data made it much easier for scammers to impersonate their targets when contacting T-Mobile.[Motherboard]
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President-elect Donald Trump continued his reoccurring Saturday night ritual of watching Alec Baldwin impersonate him on Saturday Night Live before angrily tweeting his dislike for the show and Baldwin's portrayal.
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S explains that they're going to impersonate Perkins to get into a facility called Cedar Ridge and talk to a defected neolutionist who is likely being held there against their will.
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" The group's statement also says that the "claims are legally baseless, since the site is clearly a form of First Amendment protected political speech and makes no attempt to impersonate Comcast.
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Facebook said it dismantled scores of pages and accounts designed to look like independent opinion pages and to impersonate a local fact-checking organisation ahead of Moldova's elections later this month.
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And as if she wasn't busy enough, Gigi also hosted the American Music Awards this past November, where she did everything from change her outfit six times to impersonate Melania Trump.
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Additionally, this legislation will update identity-theft statutes for the 21st century, so when people use deep fakes to impersonate others, this virtual impersonation will now also be recognized as illegal.
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Men sporting shaved heads and robes who impersonate Buddhist monks and aggressively panhandle for donations are once again proliferating in New York City and countries around the world, the authorities said.
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SERIOUSLY, JUST SET YOUR SPOTIFY TO PRIVATE: Twitter is abuzz with lawmaker Spotify playlists, or at least playlists that allow Hill staffers to impersonate their boss' musical preferences, released on Sunday.
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Spicer used a rolling podium, similar to the one Melissa McCarthy used to impersonate him on "Saturday Night Live," to make his way on stage during host Stephen Colbert's opening monologue.
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As demonstrated in the videos below, the apps give the impression that the software has closed, then impersonate Alexa to prompt users to input their password to download a software update.
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Three other former Saks employees, as well as an additional defendant recruited as a "shopper" to impersonate Saks cardholders, previously pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison or jail, Vance said.
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Telecom employees can perform SIM swaps as part of their jobs (say, if the customer has lost their phone) or can provide personal information that helps the criminals impersonate the victim.
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French identity fraud: A Paris criminal court convicted six men of duping the wealthy out of $50 million, in part by using a silicone mask to impersonate a French defense minister.
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" The post also includes a warning against people trying to "impersonate" Thunberg or claiming they "represent" her and the establishment of a foundation to handle money "in a completely transparent way.
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Billie Eilish says it's news to her that people plan to impersonate her for Halloween, but now that she knows ... here's a tip on the best costume from the woman herself.
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"It requires no special computing power, hardware, or technical skillset to deceptively impersonate some entity or someone in these ways," Paris, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, wrote in an email.
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The modern-day verified social media account was born in June 2009, when the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals sued Twitter because someone had created an account to impersonate him.
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They targeted their crawler in particular at misspellings of popular websites—knowing that scammers often create "typosquatting" pages that impersonate legitimate sites—and certain URL shorteners that show spammy ads to visitors.
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Though Broce was not able to immediately provide an estimate of how often people impersonate others at the polls, she confirmed that Georgia did not see widespread voter fraud during the election.
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Yes. Yesterday, CNN showed footage that appears to show a man leaving the consulate wearing the same clothes as the dead journalist and a fake beard in an attempt to impersonate him.
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Slakonja, 30, whose main job is acting at the prestigious Slovenian National Theatre, hopes that the numbers on YouTube could lure sponsors into supporting #TheMockingBirdMan, his project to impersonate world-famous people.
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He did get briefly locked out of his account, he said, for tweeting about anime and joking about bitcoin — a tongue-in-cheek reference to scammers who impersonate him on the service.
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In September 2016, The Hindustan Times reported on "cloning" on social media, wherein scammers will impersonate users and befriend people they may know on Facebook, with the goal of ultimately extorting money.
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It's around then that Keanu really starts to build steam, as the nerdy cousins try to impersonate a couple of killers known as the Allentown brothers (also played by Key and Peele).
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" The Florida Democratic Party went a step further, saying in a statement Sunday that Scott is "doing his best to impersonate Latin American dictators who have overthrown Democracies in Venezuela and Cuba.
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"We are very troubled to hear that they're unwilling to do it in the primary," Buckley, who last month claimed a fake account was created to impersonate New Hampshire Democrats, told CNN.
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Facebook added a "Paid for by" disclaimer on political ads, but it was easily manipulated and had weak verification standards, so almost anyone could impersonate an organization or hide their true identity.
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The goal is to get Mr. Tang looking enough like Mr. Trump that he can impersonate the president-elect and entertain at lucrative company debuts, shopping mall openings and New Year's galas.
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Mr. Baldwin, who watched hours of Trump campaign rallies as he prepared to impersonate Mr. Trump, said in December 2016 that he was paid $1,400 each time he was on the show.
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When certificates are lost or stolen, they can be used to impersonate the app maker, allowing them to sign malicious software and make it look like it came from the original developer.
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All of this was prelude, of course, to Arya's face-changing scheme in Season 7 to impersonate Lord Frey in order to toast the remaining men of his family with poisoned wine.
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Security researchers found evidence that the hacking group had set up decoy email phishing accounts that impersonate the En March domain names, thereby tricking campaign officals to open emails that contain malware.
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Mann also said that a law enforcement label on the pepper spray and the breathalyzer that Wienke were carrying suggest he or he and co-conspirators were planning to impersonate law enforcement officers.
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Now that one of our US-based competitors is actively misrepresenting itself, as part of a stunt to impersonate Russian trolls, we have taken further appropriate action to upgrade our systems and processes.
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More often than not, the scammers use spoofing techniques to impersonate a senior executive over email to trick the unsuspecting victim, or hack into the email account of the person they are impersonating.
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While some of you are preparing your tax returns and waiting for some sweet cash courtesy of your IRS refund, others are preparing to impersonate the IRS and cash out courtesy of you.
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In his Tablet article, Rosenberg describes a particular set of internet trolls who impersonate Jews or other minorities and post racist Tweets to make it look like said demographics they're targeting are bigoted.
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Google, the maker of Android, has taken steps in recent years to protect users from downloading malicious code and by blocking apps which are insecure, impersonate legitimate companies or engage in deceptive behaviours.
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For all that Americans prefer Filipino accents to Indian ones—which these Filipinos can impersonate, amusingly if not accurately—they still suspect they are talking to foreigners, and may be angry and rude.
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Schulman serves as the host and executive producer for the popular MTV show, which investigates online relationships and exposes people who impersonate others on the internet — and is based on his 2010 documentary.
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According to the document, most of the time Maldonado would create fictitious email accounts in order to impersonate various email providers, and then send messages to the targets asking for their login credentials.
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Aside from the legions of people who'll undoubtedly impersonate Hillary, Donald, or Bernie for Halloween, which is terrifying, a lot of people think the state of our union is the stuff of nightmares.
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The sketch was mostly an excuse to let this week's guest host, Jason Momoa, reprise his "Game of Thrones" role as the warrior Khal Drogo and to let cast members impersonate "Thrones" characters.
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By compromising that validation feature, hackers could easily impersonate "good" software companies to install bad software, Soltani said, potentially allowing them to spy on computer users or hold their devices hostage for ransom.
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Things came to a head over the last week when trolls found a way to impersonate Renner and other fans, using the opportunity to post hateful comments and harass others on the platform.
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One night in February 1993, Frankie Caruso and another white Baton Rouge detective darkened their faces to impersonate black drug dealers, as part of what was then characterized as a successful sting operation.
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A NEW FACEBOOK MESSENGER MALWARE IS GOING AFTER YOUR PASSWORD AND YOUR MONEY Trust factor Criminals typically try to impersonate company executives, people in the real estate industry, human resources staff, and law firms.
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"Given this tiny incident rate for voter impersonation fraud, it is more likely that an American will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls," reads the report.
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As part of the new feature, Facebook will also notify users if someone else attempts to use their photo in a profile; Facebook says it's trying to make it harder to impersonate other people.
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Holding other factors constant, Americans were 11 percentage points more likely to choose articles from local news sources than ones from online-only national outlets — precisely why dubious websites might impersonate local news sources.
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Schulman, 33, serves as the host and executive producer for the popular MTV show, which investigates online relationships and exposes people who impersonate others on the internet — and is based on his 2010 documentary.
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Officers said Handschumacher and others in on the plan would steal personal information, then either impersonate or pay off a cellular service employee to receive a new SIM card with the target's stolen information.
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In the first signs of a mounting threat, criminals are starting to use deepfakes — starting with AI-generated audio — to impersonate CEOs and steal millions from companies, which are largely unprepared to combat them.
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Given this tiny incident rate for voter impersonation fraud, it is more likely, the report noted, that an American 'will be struck by lightning than that he will impersonate another voter at the polls.
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After Heath Ledger's leap into the void as The Joker in The Dark Knight, Leto's Joker, like everything else in this movie, seems poorly thought through, empty schtick meant to impersonate an actual character.
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The purpose of the scanning, according to Facebook, is to alert you if someone has publicly uploaded a photo of you that you don't know about, especially if they are trying to impersonate you.
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The Internal Revenue Service has warned taxpayers for years to be wary of online phishing, where criminals impersonate the agency using fake emails, text messages, or websites in order to steal your personal information.
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According to the U.S. Attorney, Rini said he'd seen Timmothy's story on an episode of "183/218" ... and cooked up the idea to impersonate him in order to get away from his own family.
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The researchers detail the power of AI to generate synthetic images, text and audio to impersonate others online, in order to sway public opinion, noting the threat that authoritarian regimes could deploy such technology.
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The report said that the FBI decided in June of this year to create a new "interim" policy, which requires top brass to sign off on any undercover operation where FBI agents impersonate journalists.
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The FBI is imposing new restrictions making it more difficult for investigators to impersonate journalists, following scrutiny over a 28503 episode in which the bureau posed as a reporter to track a suspected criminal.
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Thieves have set their sights on scamming older Americans: They impersonate and either ask you to submit payment for a new ID or they call to confirm your bank account and Social Security number.
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The stolen Facebook login information — essentially a master key — could have been used to impersonate the victims at hundreds of other sites and apps that allow people to sign in using their Facebook credentials.
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The vast majority of people would never impersonate their parent or older sibling for benefits, or forge a birth certificate, or participate in identity theft, or get confused about how old they even are.
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"I used to get calls once a month from clients about someone attempting to impersonate their identity and steal money," says Diana Nichols, president and founder of Gold Key Credit Consulting in Fairfield, Connecticut.
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Note too how often these fun quizzes ask for personal data, like the first road you lived on or the name of your pets, which could be used to impersonate you in some way.
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The eavesdropping devices impersonate a legitimate cell tower that can then trick nearby cellphone users into connecting to them, giving away one's location data as well as their international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number.
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Phishing emails are designed to impersonate companies or executives to trick users into turning over sensitive information, typically usernames and passwords, so that scammers can log into online services and steal money or data.
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It has come to my attention that a few people have been trying to impersonate me or falsely claim that they "represent" me in order to communicate with political leaders, famous actors, singers and musicians.
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Yet, you have to take into account that if a non HTTPS-website opens up the door for hackers on the same network as the user to impersonate that site, by intercepting the users connection.
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Publishers were banned in November and December and included sites that impersonate real news organizations through shortened top-level domains, according to Google's 2016 "bad ads" report, normally released at the beginning of each year.
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This past October, for example, Facebook disclosed that hackers had compromised tens of millions of accounts by exploiting a series of software flaws, culminating in their ability to impersonate users and take over their profiles.
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What he read, and realized, blew his mind: Someone had found his contact information and used it to impersonate Springer in a chat with an Amazon representative, gaining access to more of his personal information.
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Digital abuse may be many things: hacking the victim's computer, using knowledge of passwords or personal date to impersonate them or interfere with their presence online, accessing photos to track their location and so on.
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The idea was to drip the poison slowly, impersonate black and East Asian women and introduce enough disagreement to invite arguments, but not sound so off-base that activists would consider it futile to engage.
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The advantage of a physical security key—like the Titan or now, Android phones—is that they're less vulnerable to spoofing, a practice where bad actors impersonate your account to gain access to your data.
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"They panicked after he died, and in order to make it appear he left the consulate, they decided to impersonate him," the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
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In July, the Justice Department said 24 people in eight states had been convicted for their roles in a scheme to use Indian call-center agents to impersonate tax collectors at the Internal Revenue Service.
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They might then use that map to impersonate various people or leverage their way into the company's social network, ultimately using whatever means necessary to make sure that the system becomes infected with the ransomware.
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Less than a day after Microsoft disclosed one of the most critical Windows vulnerabilities ever, a security researcher has demonstrated how attackers can exploit it to cryptographically impersonate any website or server on the internet.
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After a short introduction, Lurk gets three powers: Displace, which lets you place teleportation markers and warp to them; Semblance, which lets you impersonate another character; and Foresight, which stops time and highlights items and enemies.
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The reveal that Claire Prime had taken this deep cover assignment to impersonate Claire Alpha was a major shock, not least of which to her husband, Peter Quayle, which continues that theme of men underestimating women.
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In some cases, the fraudsters would hack into the email accounts of the person they were trying to impersonate to try to trick a victim into wiring money from a business into the fraudster's bank account.
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"While many conventional approaches rely on password entry for user authentication, these passwords can be stolen or discovered by other persons who can impersonate the user for any of a variety of tasks," the patent said.
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Prosecutors said that scheme involved lying to lenders and having Darden impersonate his father, Calvin Darden Sr, a former United Parcel Service Inc executive who lenders were falsely told was putting up collateral for the loans.
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In this rip-off, thieves impersonate government officials and tell victims that they're eligible to receive an ATM card with a large sum of money on it — provided they send along cash and personal information first.
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Social media accounts, Palmer said, serve as fertile ground for digging up the kinds of information that can be used to impersonate someone, steal identities or break into other online accounts, such as banking or insurance.
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The researchers were able to find yet more domains associated with NSO or its customers' infrastructure, noting that "alarmingly" some of them appeared designed to impersonate humanitarian organizations like the Red Cross, and news media organizations.
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This week's episode — which should've included a brief intermission for Adam Rippon's short program — featured the beloved Snatch Game challenge, in which the queens impersonate celebrities in a game show battle of wits and laugh grabs.
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To impress him, Andrew asks his friend Jeff to impersonate the naval officer he used to be and to present Andrew with a gift of Ferragamo shoes — as a sign, Andrew says, that he is loved.
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Suspend your disbelief and embrace this Hollywood tradition, now in its 11th year, as the city's up-and-coming comedians get in costume and impersonate their famous colleagues, dead or alive, all in shockingly good fun.
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There's a miserly host, her activist sister, her failed nature-writer son and a complete stranger hired to impersonate an ex, all of whom have their own read on faultlines past and present, personal and political.
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So it's illegal to impersonate a health inspector, do not do this on your own, but in the context of a contractual agreement for pen testing, on the premises of the facility and whatever, it's fine.
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Mithril said it then hired expert forensic analysts to examine the handwriting on the Priority Mail envelope and determined that McKellar was the likely sender, despite her attempt to "impersonate" a different investor in the firm.
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In other messages that were exchanged last Tuesday and Wednesday, the scammers talked about their cryptocurrency investment strategies and who they should impersonate next, including the Litecoin Foundation, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee, and the founder of Binance.
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Someone who wants to get at you for political, personal, or other reasons might use Facebook to impersonate you by creating an account with a name similar to yours and trying to make people believe it's authentic.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Businesses have lost billions of dollars to fast-growing scams where fraudsters impersonate company executives in emails that order staff to transfer to accounts controlled by criminals, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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The cumulative danger of all of these data points becoming exposed—not just by T-Mobile but across countless breaches—is that it makes it easier for attackers to impersonate you and take control of your accounts.
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This vulnerability left the door open for cybercriminals to impersonate legitimate servers, or worse, insert themselves into a conversation between users and intercept communications between them, in what's known as a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack.
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As special marketing site Marketingland recently pointed out, Google has been addressing fake publishers that impersonate well-known news outlets or make up clickbait headlines — it but has not been looking at misinformation, hoaxes and conspiracy theories.
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Well, besides making sure you don't give out any information that could later be used to impersonate you, a simple bit of protection is to enable two-factor authentication on everything and use authenticator apps wherever possible.
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But, whereas Shepard wrote from real anguish about these questions—about men who impersonate some Hollywood idea of masculinity while searching for a father's love—Lee's characterizations of white men don't seem to draw on anything real.
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It's that so many of the actors must not only impersonate family members but also lie about their identity, so that outsiders—and sometimes parents, spouses, and even children—think they are who they pretend to be.
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And even when he chooses to impersonate Byron Scott by punishing first and second-year players who, you know, make mistakes, in an otherwise lost season there's serious value in thrusting important defensive principles onto impressionable prospects.
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For well over a decade, identity thieves, phishers, and other online scammers have created a black market of stolen and aggregated consumer data that they used to break into people's accounts, steal their money, or impersonate them.
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Foreign fraudsters have increasingly used robocalls to impersonate US government officials, including from tax and immigration agencies, as they try to scare those who pick up the phone into revealing sensitive information, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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Attorney General Mark Herring, 57, who has expressed gubernatorial ambitions and called four days ago for Northam to resign, admitted in a statement he donned brown face paint at a party in 1980 to impersonate a rapper.
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"Lines and lines of coke" and the like become infinitely droller when delivered in his shrill cartoon bark, the voice of someone happy to dramatize, and for the record's duration impersonate, one particular extreme mode of being.
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Lukas Stefanko, a security researcher at ESET — who has a long history of finding dodgy Android apps — said the fake Trezor app "appeared trustworthy at first glance" but was using a fake developer name to impersonate the company.
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Julian Oliver has for years harbored a strange obsession with spotting poorly disguised cellphone towers, those massive roadside antennae draped in fake palm fronds to impersonate a tree, or even hidden as spoofed lamp posts and flag poles.
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An artist with the same name as the pop star Meghan Trainor found herself locked out of her social media accounts last week after Google and Twitter wrongly concluded she was attempting to impersonate her namesake, reports Gizmodo.
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Despite the demanding shooting schedule, the comedic actor would gladly reprise his White Chicks role, which had him and his younger brother Shawn dressing in whiteface and blonde wigs to impersonate two women after an FBI mix-up.
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As Dessa's engineers note in a blog post, malicious uses cases for fake voices include spam calls that impersonate your loved ones; using fake voices to bully or harass people; and creating misinformation through faked recordings of politicians.
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Slovak and Czech researchers have found a vulnerability that leaves government and corporate encryption cards vulnerable to hackers to impersonate key owners, inject malicious code into digitally signed software, and decrypt sensitive data, Dan Goodin reports for ArsTechnica.
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Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) sent DHS a letter on Tuesday asking the agency to take "immediate steps to ensure hackers cannot send emails that impersonate federal agencies," by implementing DMARC and pushing other agencies to do the same.
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It's also worth noting that Bloomberg's sources consistently argued that this narrative is false, with some former contractors telling Bloomberg they were asked to impersonate teachers and caterers in calls to local stores to order more Just Mayo.
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The criminals would use the bug to dig data on a target, then use that data to impersonate the target in a call to T-Mobile's support team, convincing them to issue the hackers a new SIM card.
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Shortly after a California woman and her boyfriend ended their relationship in 2013, he began to post sexual photographs and videos of her on pornography websites and to impersonate her in online dating forums, according to court documents.
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I wrote about Moore a couple of weeks ago, noting that he has long been a prominent fixture in the conservative movement; he is, basically, a classic right-wing hack who tries (incompetently) to impersonate an economic expert.
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A social-engineering hacker, for example, might call up your cellular provider and impersonate your spouse, in hopes of hijacking your text messages — which could then be used to bypass the two-step authentication on your email account.
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Bow, Cooper and Esther Ralston (who plays Bow's childhood friend, described as the richest girl in America) all impersonate poor little rich kids, the products of broken marriages, deprived of love by their self-absorbed, high-society parents.
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If Hinge doesn't let the person on the other end know that you're using Audrey, the question arises: is it ethical for a bot or person employed by a dating app to impersonate you so you can get laid?
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The suggested email replies of Google Inbox, for example, were promoted to the main Gmail app in Android during I/O — and, much like my colleague Adi Robertson, I find them off-putting in the way they impersonate me.
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Flanked by other religious leaders, Sharpton suggested that even if he was not in the picture, his admission that he had put some shoe polish on his face to impersonate Jackson was still more than enough cause to resign.
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In some of our cases, the offenders do other creative things: file false police reports, file retaliatory orders of protection, disseminate lies about their partner cheating on them, impersonate on social media, hack their emails to spread their secrets.
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Engineers around the world are releasing products and prototypes that enable machine impersonation of voices and the manipulation of audio and video, "making it increasingly easy to impersonate anyone you want with amazing accuracy," the MIT Technology Review reports.
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"Thanks to the presence effect, which creates a sense of presence with the model in the same room, users behave more naturally, do not impersonate fake people, are less rude and tend not to do any trolling," he said.
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Massive lists of user credentials and passwords are being sold on the Dark Web at low prices, and, for a small fee, anyone can obtain access to all sorts of enterprise networks and cloud services, and impersonate legitimate users.
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The day was hot—"probably over 100 degrees," Moore told VICE—and Davis was one face missing from the festivities, though a drag queen dressed to impersonate the notorious Rowan County clerk was on hand to take her place.
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"In suing to seize ballots and impound voting machines, Rick Scott is doing his best to impersonate Latin American dictators who have overthrown Democracies in Venezuela and Cuba," Juan Peñalosa, the state Democratic Party director, said in a statement.
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"At the organizational level, deepfakes will also be used to impersonate high-level targets at organizations to scam employees by transferring funds into fraudulent accounts," Alvin Rodrigues, senior director and security strategist for Asia Pacific at Forcepoint, told CNBC.
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"Mulan" puts the Chinese legend through the lens of the tail-end of Disney's animated Renaissance period, telling an epic adventure about a girl forced to impersonate a male warrior in order to fight for and save her people.
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"Industry-standard technologies exist, and are already used throughout the private sector and even by a few federal agencies, which, if enabled, would make it significantly harder for fraudsters and foreign governments to impersonate federal agencies," Wyden wrote Tuesday.
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And whenever he pump-fakes his defender out of position, flings the ball out in front of him and decides to impersonate Giannis Antetokounmpo, well, defenses probably won't know how to deal with that for the entirety of his career.
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Though it's only meant for law enforcement, Vance's office left the survey URL open to the general public: Anyone can access it and submit answers, which means that anyone can impersonate a police officer, prosecutor, or other law enforcement official.
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It's worth keeping in mind that in order to pull off such an attack, a hacker would need to be in your device's Wi-Fi range and impersonate a network that your device already trusts and would attempt to connect to.
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Hackers would be able to call cell providers, impersonate the user, and change the SIM card on record to their own (which is what happened to Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, when his Twitter account was hacked last year).
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"The IRS will do everything it can to help taxpayers avoid confusion and understand their rights and tax responsibilities, particularly in light of continual phone scams where callers impersonate IRS agents and request immediate payment," the agency said in September.
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That's the question that Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele transferred from their old Comedy Central show to "Keanu," a disposable but slyly deep action comedy in which a black stoner and his preppy friend impersonate gangstas to rescue a cat.
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Using fake email addresses to impersonate the chief executive or president of a company, authorities say the defendants would instruct mid-level employees to wire hundreds of thousands of dollars for a "secret" financial transaction, such as a corporate acquisition.
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Another EMAP member, Barnaby Brown of Cambridge, England, plays reconstructions of the Greco-Roman aulos, a kind of double oboe played by sticking each half in a corner of the mouth, a bit like using chopsticks to impersonate a walrus.
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As the Times notes, the law under which Orsetti was arrested this week makes it illegal to "impersonate a cop," though it makes no mention of impersonating a cop online—a fact Orsetti's attorney is sure to raise in court.
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In many cases, the NSO Group had designed its tools to impersonate those of the Red Cross, Facebook, Federal Express, CNN, Al Jazeera, Google and even the Pokemon Company to gain the trust of its targets, according to the researchers.
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There are good British accents, like Meryl Streep's in "The Iron Lady," and then there are bad ones, like Dick Van Dyke's in "Mary Poppins," and then there's whatever Jack Black attempts in this movie while trying to impersonate Paul McCartney.
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"Someone thought it would be funny to send a bunch of spammers and trolls as we call them to the app," Karen explained, noting that many of the insincere users cloned accounts and used fake names to impersonate celebrities, including Renner.
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"Because the genre that Miles is aping applies fiction's methods to real-life stories, 'Anatomy of a Miracle' offers the Victor-Victoria frisson of watching a novel impersonate a work of journalism impersonating a novel," our reviewer, Christopher Beha, writes.
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Unchanged practices Despite past reporting, Tunstall doesn't seem to have changed his ways, but he claims his ads never intended to impersonate anyone and claims this time around he plans to spent the money to support candidates like President Trump.
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In it, he complains about how poorly he says the company works with influencers and advertisers, and says it ignored his requests to be verified, a designation that indicates someone is a public figure whom others might try to impersonate.
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"In suing to seize ballots and impound voting machines, Rick Scott is doing his best to impersonate Latin American dictators who have overthrown Democracies in Venezuela and Cuba," Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Juan Peñalosa said in a statement Sunday.
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Lukas's spent his early childhood canoeing and riding horses, but instead of playing cops and robbers, he played pushers and robbers, wrapping cigarette packets in brown tape to impersonate chunks of hash which they'd stash and sell with monopoly money.
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The threats tracked by IBM's global threat intelligence service, known as X-Force (insert Marvel Comics joke here), began by harvesting mass amounts of business user credentials, which in studied incidents enabled attackers to impersonate corporate officers authorized to make large fund transfers.
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The Justice Department has issued warnings about several different fraud and abuse schemes, like people who impersonate immigration officials over the phone, or pocket fee waivers without passing the savings onto the applicant, or charge people for access to free immigration forms.
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Why would he put out a statement of apology suggesting he was in the picture soon after it was published, only to rescind it the next day, and then admit guilt of using blackface in an attempt to impersonate Michael Jackson years earlier?
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You see it with Northam (D) insisting he's going to stick it out in office after the discovery of a racist photo in his medical school yearbook — which prompted him to acknowledge that he wore blackface in 1984 to impersonate Michael Jackson.
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Security breaches, where malicious hackers obtain snippets of information that then get used to impersonate individuals in order to gain access to individuals' and businesses' sensitive financial and other private information, have become par for the course in the world of digital services.
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During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the actress and singer played a game where she was challenged to impersonate as many music icons as possible in 60 seconds – in honor of the upcoming second season of her FOX series, Star.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hackers have sought to steal more than $503 billion from businesses in a pernicious, fast-growing type of scam in which criminals impersonate company executives in emails ordering large wire transfers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned on Tuesday.
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If you're a Verizon customer who's called customer service in the past six months, it's probably a good idea to update your PIN, or the four-digit billing password that protects your account from people trying to impersonate you over the phone.
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The singer helped demonstrate a promising, but contentious, use case for AI. Software that can impersonate people's voices can make computers more fun to talk with, but in the wrong hands might be used to make so-called "deepfakes" intended to deceive.
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Davis' Instagram account now has 391k followers who look forward to seeing a new pic of her and her daughters every week, dressed in matching outfits as they do everything from eat cereal to play with autumn leaves and impersonate Mary Poppins.
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In the comic books, the Skrulls aren't the helpless and kind heroes they are in the movies, and in Secret Invasion we learn that they've been using their shape-shifting abilities to impersonate heroes, sow distrust, and prepare Earth for a Skrull onslaught.
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One such system, used by Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia, allows a hacker to swipe a relatively inexpensive Proxmark RFID reader/transmitter near the key fob to later impersonate the key inside the car, disabling the immobilizer and letting them start up the engine.
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Another huge issue was the lack of verification in the app, which is what made it so easy for any user to impersonate another or to make an account with the name "Jeremy Renner" and upload the actor's current avatar as their own.
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"Their actions in this case were fraud in just the same way that it would be fraud for someone with no connection to the Port Authority to impersonate Port Authority supervisors and order Port Authority employees to realign Port Authority lanes," he added.
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While Tom Ripley — who as a con artist is able to impersonate all kinds of occupations — may be the apex of this, a great example of how it works is in Carol, last year's film adapted from Highsmith's novella The Price of Salt.
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A military council spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment, but the council said on Twitter that some Rapid Support Forces members had been attacked and that people had put on their uniforms to impersonate them in an attempt to harm their reputation.
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Impersonate your own nonexistent publicist to brag -- and then lie about it The New York billionaire has long been known for his branding genius and his successful use of the New York tabloids to cement his image as a successful and desirable business mogul.
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This can be used to impersonate another computer or router on a Wi-Fi network, and perform a man-in-the-middle type of attack to capture all of that network's web traffic and acquire any data submitted to non-HTTPS sites, including login credentials.
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Alec Baldwin returned to SNL to impersonate Trump for the cold open — calling fellow heads of state from the Oval Office, including Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto (Alex Moffat), Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel (Kate McKinnon), and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (Beck Bennett).
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Over the past two years, it's become apparent that political lobbyists, usually acting on behalf of the telecom industry itself, are prepared to manipulate the agency's rulemaking process and impersonate everyday Americans just to create the illusion of public support where, in reality, none exists.
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As AI algorithms that can impersonate the human voice get better and better, it might not be long before you pick up the phone and genuinely can't tell if you're talking to a human or a machine that's been trained to sound like one.
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It's an extremely serious breach; hackers got access to full names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, driver's license numbers -- exactly the sort of information criminals can use to impersonate victims to banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, and other businesses vulnerable to fraud.
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It made what was intended as a small feint into a big serial deception—he enlisted one of his nephews, unwisely, to impersonate this other author—and the cost of the deception, flowing out over so many people, was the beginning of his decline.
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The older generation of GSM, known as 23G, doesn't verify that the tower that your phone connects to is authentic, making it easy for anyone to use a cell-site simulator and impersonate a cell tower to obtain your location or eavesdrop on your communications.
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On Tuesday afternoon, The Intercept's editor-in-chief Betsy Reed announced that Juan Thompson, who until recently had been a reporter at the website, had made up sources, fabricated quotes, and even set up fake email addresses that "he used to impersonate people"—including Reed herself.
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By exploiting a lack of encryption between the drone and its controller module known as a "telemetry box," any hacker who's able to reverse engineer the drone's flight software can impersonate that controller to send navigation commands, meanwhile blocking all commands from the drone's legitimate operator.
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That specific vulnerability, discovered by Skycure, allowed bad actors to create phony "captive portals"—usually a log-in or authentication page—that would allow the attacker to impersonate the victim on a given site, execute a malicious JavaScript, or log the user into an attacker-controlled account.
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" (According to a Google source, the CFA fake troll accounts reported by BuzzFeed News up have been disabled by the company.) Instead, the company criticized the Campaign for Accountability and one of its reported backers — Oracle — for what it called "a stunt to impersonate Russian trolls.
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When choosing the privacy-enhancing option, such as disabling face recognition, users are presented with a tailored set of consequences: "we won't be able to use this technology if a stranger uses your photo to impersonate you," for instance, to scare the user into enabling it.
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If you are an undocumented person in the U.S., trying to avoid crossing paths with any government official, the last thing on your mind would be to try to infiltrate a voting site, impersonate a citizen, come into contact with poll workers, and risk being caught.
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In the expletive-laced video, which was created on Snapchat, Mr. Bhat uses that app's face-swap feature to impersonate Sachin Tendulkar, a hugely popular cricketer who retired in 2013, and Lata Mangeshkar, a so-called playback singer for Bollywood films whose career dates to the 1940s.
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The group that brought the question, Keep MA Safe, said the law lets people "self-identify" however they wish, leaving the door open for people to impersonate members of the opposite sex for unlawful purposes, such as entering public restrooms to harass or assault women and children.
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After years of trolling the democratic opposition within Russia, today's Kremlin trolls can impersonate black, white, Native American, gay, straight, male, female, pro-gun, anti-gun, and just about every other conceivable stripe of American voter one can think of, not to mention Germans, Dutch, Italians, etc.
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During World War II, he served in Europe with the Army's Camouflage Engineers, alongside the future fashion designer Bill Blass and the future painter Ellsworth Kelly, as part of the Ghost Army, a special 22008,100-man unit that used visual and sound effects to impersonate larger forces.
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Now, with his approval ratings edging upward (towering over his predecessor's paltry end-of-second-term 22 percent), and the looming presidency of a man who is seemingly the exact opposite of everything Obama stands for, the men who impersonate him have noticed a shift in tone.
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Most of them manage to avoid doing lasting damage before their brains finish congealing and they realize that maybe it wasn't such a great idea to dress up like scary bushes or impersonate that police officer or whatever—but not all dumbass teens get so lucky.
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Make no mistake: For years, through careful omissions, PR gerrymandering, and out-and-out obstinance, police in Canada misled the public about their use of IMSI catchers, which impersonate cell phone towers and force any phone in the area to reveal information about the device and user.
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But now, criminals are increasingly targeting businesses, including tax professionals and human resource departments, because they are rich sources of sensitive personal information — including W-2 forms, bank statements and tax returns — that thieves can use to impersonate taxpayers and file bogus returns with authentic data.
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While it's relatively simpler to quantify age and see how various genetic changes might alter it, it's harder to assess how tiny switches turning on and off at certain times might alter the size of a parrot's brain — or how well it can impersonate Matthew McConaughey.
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"Dogtooth" (2009), his breakout movie, sought to dismantle the family unit; "Alps" (2011) took on death, no less, and the culture of grief, with characters being hired to impersonate the deceased for the sake of the mourners; and now we have "The Lobster," which snaps at love.
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Such conditions could not be more perfect for bad actors to arrive, collect the runoff, and use it to spread even more pollution, to amplify this or that conspiracy theory, or stoke this or that tension, or impersonate this or that candidate's supporter to maximize ill will.
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The researchers then crawled both the right- and left-leaning lists of political websites that BuzzFeed had defined with a set of web-browsing "personas," essentially bots designed to impersonate real users whose browsers had previously visited sites that marked them as belonging to certain demographics.
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Finally, it said, it would try to put economic pressure on bad actors in three ways: by banning disputed stories from its advertising ecosystem; by making it harder to impersonate credible sites on the platform; and, crucially, by penalizing websites that are loaded with too many ads.
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That means an attacker who knows the victim's phone number and who is on the same Wi-Fi network—anyone from a coworker in the same corporate office to someone at the neighboring table at Starbucks—can potentially use that number and IP address to impersonate them.
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Phishing and hacks are a reality these days, so while this extra step is an inconvenience, it also has a benefit: Even if a hacker tries to impersonate you to get this data, they can't get it right away, giving you a chance to shut down the process early.
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She first showed off her uncanny ability to impersonate Sanders last season when Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer heard the rumors that Donald Trump may be replacing him as White House press secretary, and again during the cold open of this season's premiere episode opposite Alec Baldwin as Trump.
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Also included in the new restrictions are apps that "appeal to children but contain adult themes," apps that impersonate people or organizations or conceal their primary purpose, and apps that force users to click ads or submit personal information for ads before full use of the app is granted.
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In the same week a team of Russian prank callers duped Secretary of Energy Rick Perry into a conversation about pig poop, a con artist in the UK managed to impersonate top Trump administration officials and trick his "colleagues" into responding to a series of bogus emails, CNN reports.
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Security expert and academic Zeynep Tufekci said in a tweet: "Using security to further weaken privacy is a lousy move — especially since phone numbers can be hijacked to weaken security," referring to SIM swapping, where scammers impersonate cell customers to steal phone numbers and break into other accounts.
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"If you can get information on someone online, you might be able to impersonate them or use their credit history, or perhaps get into a password protected website if you can answer security questions about people," said Paul Stephens, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
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" Technological abuse "means behavior intended to harm, threaten, intimidate, control, stalk, harass, impersonate, or monitor another person, except as otherwise permitted by law, that occurs via the Internet, social networking sites, computers, mobile devices, cellular telephones, apps, location tracking devices, instant messages, text messages, or other forms of technology.
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The group that brought the question, Keep MA Safe, says the current law lets people "self-identify" however they wish, leaving the door open for people to impersonate members of the opposite sex for unlawful purposes, such as entering public restrooms to harass or assault women and children.
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Alec Baldwin said on the podcast Origins With James Andrew Miller that he will continue to make guest appearances to impersonate President Trump, though he suggested he may do so with less frequency: "When the show is good, there is nothing like it," Mr. Baldwin said on the podcast.
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Parfionovas and his alleged co-conspirators are accused of going to great lengths to impersonate advisors and victims, including through phone calls, through disguised social media accounts, and even fake IP addresses that made it appear they were sending their messages from New York and not Eastern Europe.
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Countless recent cases—from Elon Musk's "pedo guy" saga to congressperson Devin Nunes suing accounts that impersonate his mom and his cow—have involved defamatory statements made in cellphone videos or in writing (more than once the writing was just emoji) or comments posted on Yelp and Twitter.
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"Due to clever individuals that were able to manipulate ways to impersonate me and others within the app, I have asked ESCAPEX, the company that runs this app, to shut it down immediately and refund anyone who has purchased any stars over the last 90 days," he wrote.
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"Due to clever individuals that were able to manipulate ways to impersonate me and others within the app I have asked ESCAPEX, the company that runs this app to shut it down immediately and refund anyone who has purchased any stars over the last 90 days," Jeremy Renner added.
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The worry is that attackers could use the lack of DMARC to impersonate legitimate email addresses to send targeted phishing or malware in order to gain a foothold on election networks or launch attacks, steal data or delete it altogether, a move that would potentially disrupt the democratic process.
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The scene's physical comedy only heightens its subtler, sadder ironies, such as the exhaustion of having to perform under observation what you in fact are; the pained, fallen clown is so palpably the responsible and loving parent that the grimacing phony was straining to impersonate just moments before.
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In trying to recover Snowden's unencrypted mail from the company, which did not keep Snowden's cryptographic key, the Justice Department got a court order forcing the company to turn over another key instead, one that would allow officials to impersonate the company's website and intercept all interactions with its users.
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Police also discovered several incriminating things at Garcia's Indiana home, according to the Omaha World-Herald, including odd notes to himself (such as to remember to wear Band-Aids on his fingertips and park away from the home), a plan to impersonate another Anthony Garcia and an escape plan by boat.
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Much like the #AndysComing challenge, in which someone shouts "Andy's coming!" to a group of people and they drop to the ground to impersonate a scene from Disney's classic film Toy Story, the #TrumpIsComing challenge involves a group of people reacting to the looming arrival of America's president-elect, Donald Trump.
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Then a defector crosses over from the Other Side — a parallel realm reached through a basement in Berlin — and Howard is introduced to someone: a tough-guy version of himself, whom he must impersonate to stop an assassin (Sara Serraiocco) with a kill list that includes his wife (Olivia Williams).
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The ride-hailing service is under investigation by the F.B.I. and the United States attorney's office in Manhattan over a program it internally called "Hell" — not a good way to make an impression, either — that essentially allowed its software to impersonate a passenger who had used its rival service Lyft.
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Last year we revealed that hackers had been exploiting a nasty bug on a T-Mobile website to pull the personal data of customers in an attempt to gather data that they could then use to impersonate the victims and socially engineer T-Mobile support technicians into issuing new SIM cards.
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Snapchatters have so far been able to turn their head into a giant taco with the Taco Bell's Snapchat "lens" filter, add a fluffy white goatee and a red top hat to impersonate Uncle Sam in a Budweiser lens for July 4, as well as freak out friends with an X-Men look.
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"The risk that an attacker could obtain and use an individual's personal information to answer knowledge-based verification questions and impersonate that individual led the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to issue guidance in 2017 that effectively prohibits agencies from using knowledge-based verification for sensitive applications," wrote the watchdog.
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At its peak, 3ve involved about 1.7 million PCs infected with malware, an array of servers that could generate mountains of fake traffic with bots, roughly 5,000 counterfeit websites created to impersonate legitimate web publishers, and over 60,000 accounts with digital advertising companies to help fraudsters receive ad placements and get paid.
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The system means that beyond creating a master key to open any door in a hotel, they could also spoof specific "floor" and "section" keys that open only a subset of doors in a building—all the better to impersonate the sort of less-powerful keys that hotel housekeeping staff hold, for instance.
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These cases range from the trivial to the life-altering: You forget a password and have to reset it (trivial); Hackers impersonate you on social media (irritating); Someone steals your SSN and defaults on a credit card in your name (serious); An oppressive state spies on, tracks and arrests potential dissidents (life-altering).
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We as a country deserve to know what was going on, for instance, in that odd chapter in the story where the CIA may have been in Mexico City to track and apparently impersonate Lee Harvey Oswald as he talked to a KGB associate in the months leading up the presidential assassination.
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Whereas, by agreeing to do what Facebook wanted you to do, Facebook said it would help "protect you from a stranger using your photo to impersonate you"… Sure #Facebook, I'll take a milisecond to consider whether you want me to enable #facialrecognition for my own protection or your #data #tracking business model.
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But Operation Varsity Blues, the racketeering investigation that led to charges against 13 people, is one of the most audacious schemes yet: Prosecutors say proctors were bribed to fake scores, test takers were hired to impersonate students and at least one family was encouraged to falsely claim their son had a disability.
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From Yorgos Lanthimos, the director of "The Lobster," comes this tale about four people — the hospital employees known as Mont Blanc (Aris Servetalis) and Monte Rosa (Angeliki Papoulia), as well as a gymnast (Ariane Labed) and her coach (Johnny Vekris) — who impersonate dead people to help ease the grieving process of the bereaved.
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The skit also included Aidy Bryant returning to impersonate press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Kate McKinnon impersonating Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE.
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Ahead of EU Polls, Facebook Voids Accounts Targeting Moldovan Election Moldova is the latest country to be found using Facebook against its own citizens: Facebook said it dismantled scores of pages and accounts designed to look like independent opinion pages and to impersonate a local fact-checking organization ahead of Moldova's elections later this month.
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So the thing to say is that you are trying to cut down on in-person voter fraud, a scenario in which I show up at a polling place where I am not eligible to vote and impersonate a different person who has either not voted yet or who is on the rolls improperly.
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In this vision of a future filled with computers pretending to be people, you might need a device like the Anti-AI AI. Designed as a fun proof-of-concept by Australian firm DT, the device uses essentially the same algorithms that impersonate human voices to detect if you're being spoken to by a computer.
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Consider, for example, that two-way conversation between a three-legged coyote and a barkeeper, or the several sequences that require the ensemble to impersonate cactuses, or the scene in which everybody has to assume the ready, willing and able postures appropriate to being ravaged by the sexually omnivorous evil spirit of the play's title.
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Perry never shows Crawford on the set, and never has Dunaway impersonate any of Crawford's emblematic performances; rather, Dunaway, portraying the star in her private life, captures Crawford's oblivious brutality and relentless intensity, her passionate yet controlled and rock-hard presence that's as terrifying when it's maintained as it is explosive when it breaks.
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Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you ... THE BIG STORIES: --TIGHTENING THE RULES: The FBI is imposing new restrictions making it more difficult for investigators to impersonate journalists, following scrutiny over a 2007 episode in which the bureau posed as a reporter to track a suspected criminal.
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Mr. Northam initially confirmed he was one of the two men and then reversed himself on Saturday at a news conference where he said he was not actually in the picture, although he had, on another occasion, worn blackface to impersonate Michael Jackson at a dance contest where he performed the singer's famed moonwalk.
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The more I had to roll, the more I was willing to try more and more impulsive stuff — I felt the party watching me, watching as I laughed when I succeeded at something stupid, watching as I started to do funny voices when I had to impersonate a guard, and I didn't feel scared at all.
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RELATED: Pence-Kobach voting commission alarms states with info request He also pushed back at the President's oft-repeated claim that 3 million to 5 million people may have voted illegally in the 2016 election, suggesting that it is more likely that a person would be struck by lightening than that they would impersonate another person at the polls.
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Here is a list of Ashley Madison's top 20 cities, according to company's report: Ashley Madison was the subject of an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission in 2015 for a data breach that exposed more than 36 million customers' private information and discovered the site using computer programs to impersonate women and engage men subscribers.
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This, obviously, makes it much harder for someone to impersonate another voter, although it can also make it much harder for someone to vote if they don't have the time or resources to obtain a proper ID. But states' voting restrictions can also take other steps that don't seem to target fraud so much as make voting more difficult.
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But the film prefers to focus on their amazing rise, which here includes a classic oddball friendship — Garrett is cool, rational and sober; Morris is garrulous, freewheeling and cynical — and an amusing makeover montage in which the working-class Steiner is taught how impersonate an upper-class white man, receiving tutorials in golf, etiquette, Scotch-drinking and remedial algebra.
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Yet Busch, himself a feminine avalanche — and a reluctant "drag legend" — doesn't really impersonate Ruth Chatterton, Miriam Hopkins, Helen Hayes and the other stars who played harlots, murderesses and mothers forced to give up their children in movies like "Madame X" (1929), "Sarah and Son" (1930), "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" (1931) and "Frisco Jenny" (1932).
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Once your router is hacked, it lets criminals execute these further attacks: * identify other vulnerable devices in the network * read your gadget configurations * map your internal network * harvest usernames and passwords * impersonate administrators * modify firmware * modify operating systems * change configurations * spy on your traffic and redirect it through Russian-controlled servers Here are some ways to keep them at bay.
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By getting someone who works at an FMI or a partner company to click on a corrupt link through a "phishing" attack (an attempt to get hold of sensitive information by masquerading as someone trustworthy), or stealing their credentials when they use public Wi-Fi, hackers can impersonate them and install malware to watch over employees' shoulders and see how the institution's system functions.
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More from Craig Silverman of BuzzFeed News on the scale of the fraud: At its peak, 3ve involved about 1.7 million PCs infected with malware, an array of servers that could generate mountains of fake traffic with bots, roughly 5,000 counterfeit websites created to impersonate legitimate web publishers, and over 60,000 accounts with digital advertising companies to help fraudsters receive ad placements and get paid.
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"You control face recognition," the message reads, popping up in your News Feed and explaining that the platform now has three main goals for the tech: surfacing photos of you that you haven't been tagged in, flagging situations where someone you don't seem to know uses a photo of you in their profile (perhaps to impersonate or troll you), and improving the photo-browsing experience for people with visual impairments.
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You further agree that you will not (i) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage Sponsor or any third party; (ii) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; (iii) post advertisements or solicitations of business; or (iv) impersonate another person.
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For instance, by sequencing her stills in the order they appear in the movie, Ms. Curran reveals how Hitchcock used color like a Wagnerian leitmotif, shifting from an early reliance on red, the hue associated with Scottie Ferguson (the character played by James Stewart), to the greens that define the Kim Novak figure, a shop girl named Judy who has been employed by a murderous plotter to impersonate his wife, Madeleine.
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What I learned from Flynn is that if it was Northam in the photo (and even if it was not, as he says now), he should have publicly admitted and confronted any of his racist or racially offensive actions or beliefs of the past -- including wearing blackface to impersonate a black singer -- when he first began running for public office and asked for forgiveness and the ability to prove himself then.
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