TikTok’s scam sleuth wants to show you how companies are cheating

By Allison Morrow, CNN

New York (CNN) — We live in the golden age of grift. Most of us can’t go a day without at least one scammy text about an unpaid toll or a call from an unknown number with a shockingly human-like AI voice on the other side.

The scale of the scam onslaught feels like it’s part of some Faustian bargain we all entered into: In exchange for the miracle of, like, access to all the world’s knowledge and people in our pockets, all the world’s knowledge and people similarly have access to us, including the hustlers and the con artists. But way more hustlers, con artists and grifters than any other generation of human beings on Earth has ever had to comprehend before, let alone fend off.

Thankfully, all the scam spam doesn’t seem to have killed anyone’s appetite for the gri