big pey (@bigpey) “My laptop got hacked yesterday by someone claiming to be Pierre from the Cardano” — TopicDigg

My laptop got hacked yesterday by someone claiming to be Pierre from the Cardano Foundation. I have had a relationship with Pierre in the past, we've talked, we've video called. He reached out to me for a new call, asking about Atrium. I responded and setup a call for the next day. In the invite, there was a Microsoft Teams link to join. I joined, I saw Pierres face, his voice, and two other CF members in the call.(I now think this was AI) It was lagging a bit, and said my Teams software was out of date. It kicked me out and said that I needed to install the new Teams software through the Microsoft Terminal. I stupidly did this, but my laptop was dying so I shut it off immediately. I never use Teams so I thought this was normal. I messaged him and told him let's just use Google Meets, created the call, and sent the link. He said he got busy and asked me to reschedule. I have now realized that this was all fake, and a scam. Moral of the story, be careful. Trust nothing, trust no one. AI is making scamming more sophisticated, and as someone who is quite technical savvy, I just got cooked.