Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 2/18/23

Scammers are using fake receipts to target users of payment apps in South America, America's overclassification crisis, How two reporters secretly recorded "Jorge," AI's hacking threat

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Scammers are creating fake receipts — and a digital shoplifting boom

José Luis Peñarredonda and Daniela Dib in Rest of World reveal how scammers in South America are using makeshift apps to craft widespread fake receipts to target users of payment apps, exploiting the rise of these apps among the unbanked and marking a new era of digital shoplifting.

The prevalence of these sorts of scams is also related to the ease with which fake receipts and SMSes can be created. App stores unaffiliated with Google Play and Apple’s App Store — both of which tend to enforce policies that detect and ban malicious apps m…