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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scams are nothing new—fraud has existed as long as human greed, but what changes are the tools. Scammers thrive on exploiting vulnerable, uninformed users, and they adapt to whatever technologies or trends dominate the moment. In 2025, that means AI, cryptocurrencies and stolen personal data are their weapons of choice. And, as always, the duty, fear and hope of their targets provide openings. Today, duty often means follo

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Fear not, dreary laborer. There will always be back-breaking jobs you can do when your office ones get taken over by obsequious AI models. For one reason or another, plumbing is the profession that AI figures keep coming back to when they assure us that there’ll still be leftovers after a AI jobs apocalypse. A new piece in the Financial Times explores how plumbing has become the “career t