{"id":137017,"date":"2026-06-30T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=137017"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:08:13","slug":"this-just-in-cheats-scammers-and-thieves-use-technology-to-further-their-nefarious-ends-and-since-the-first-deepfakes-started-appearing-a-few-years-ago-anyone-with-a-modicum-of-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=137017","title":{"rendered":"This just in! Cheats, scammers, and thieves use technology to further their nefarious ends! \n\n&#8230;and: since the first deepfakes started appearing a few years ago, anyone with a modicum of common sense knew this was coming \n\nIt will only get worse \/ more prevalent, too :\/ \n\nIt is https:\/\/t.co\/y49fGPEFeQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This just in! Cheats, scammers, and thieves use technology to further their nefarious ends! <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and: since the first deepfakes started appearing a few years ago, anyone with a modicum of common sense knew this was coming <\/p>\n<p>It will only get worse \/ more prevalent, too :\/ <\/p>\n<p>It is https:\/\/t.co\/y49fGPEFeQ<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2071927863037612526\">Jun 30, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>June 30, 2026 at 08:04AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in! Cheats, scammers, and thieves use technology to further their nefarious ends! &#8230;and: since the first deepfakes started appearing a few years ago, anyone with a modicum of common sense knew this was coming It will only get worse \/ more prevalent, too :\/ It is https:\/\/t.co\/y49fGPEFeQ &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers) Jun 30, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=137017\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This just in! Cheats, scammers, and thieves use technology to further their nefarious ends! <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and: since the first deepfakes started appearing a few years ago, anyone with a modicum of common sense knew this was coming <\/p>\n<p>It will only get worse \/ more prevalent, too :\/ <\/p>\n<p>It is https:\/\/t.co\/y49fGPEFeQ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-137017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137018,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137017\/revisions\/137018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137017"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=137017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}