How Three Banking Goliaths Ignored an Octogenarian’s $700K Scam-And Got Away With It!
It all started with a mischievous digital gremlin-a pop-up on her computer warning her that her bank accounts were about to be hacked faster than you can say “cybercriminals at work.” Naturally, she followed the instructions given, or rather, the instructions whispered confidently by her new best friends-those charming hackers-and withdrew hundreds of thousands of dollars from her accounts at Merrill, UBS, and TD. Then, in a move that would make even the most seasoned scam artist proud, she sent all that loot off to a Texas gold dealer, presumably a character straight out of a western novel. 🤠
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![A diffusion-based system extracts multi-level features from traffic imagery by progressively introducing noise, then leveraging a U-Net architecture to denoise and identify optimal feature layers-a process refined through [latex]K[/latex]-means clustering for efficient fine-tuning-and ultimately fusing adjacent network layer features to represent both detailed and abstract traffic patterns.](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.21144v1/x2.png)
