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 <li><strong>Ripple CTO David Schwartz boasts that he does not fall for phishing scams.</strong></li> 
 <li><strong>Schwartz’s comments came in response to an X user who had been victimized by a phishing scam.</strong></li> 
 <li><strong>Reacting to the tweet, Schwartz asserted that such scams are common and can happen to anyone except him.</strong></li> 
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<p>Ripple CTO David Schwartz recently boasted in an X post that he doesn’t fall victim to phishing scams. Scams have become ubiquitous on social media and increasingly sophisticated, but Schwartz says he is “too smart to fall for this kind of thing.”</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">It can happen to anyone. Well, except me. I'm too smart to fall for this kind of thing. <a href="https://t.co/ZXDqCHIwvI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/ZXDqCHIwvI</a></p>— David "JoelKatz" Schwartz (@JoelKatz) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelKatz/status/1754544169916235974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">February 5, 2024</a>
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<p>Schwartz’s tweet came in response to an X user, Cory Doctorow, who described a recent phishing scam that stole his assets. The X user’s thread began “I wuz robbed.”</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">I wuz robbed. <br><br>More specifically, I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened. And *then* he tried to do it again, a week later!<br><br>1/ <a href="https://t.co/xtlHVFufqG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pic.twitter.com/xtlHV…</a></p>
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Ripple CTO Boasts He’s “Too Smart” to Fall For Phishing Scams

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