Tag: law enforcement

SCAM ALERT: Fake Anir Dutta/Stenograph Scam

It’s come to my attention that there may be texts circulating claiming to be Stenograph President Anir Dutta.

Scammer attempting to fool CaseCATalyst/Stenograph customers by claiming to be its president, Anir Dutta.

Mr. Dutta called me not too long ago (Sunday), and this was obviously not his area code. Nobody should be fooled by this dishonesty, it’s a common gift card scam.

It’s notable that these attacks are frequent on prominent organizations. The data to commit these scams is usually scraped off of organizations’ websites, and as far as I know, not usually the result of any breach.

It’s my sincere hope that more law enforcement emphasis gets put on scam detection, investigation, and prosecution. FTC data shows consumers losing over $8 billion to scams in 2022. That’s over twice the size of our entire industry. Double the money every single court reporter made in 2022.

If you or anyone receive this scam, remember not to fall for it. Respectable people like company presidents and association board members will not randomly ask for gift cards.

Stenonymous Satire Weekends is back with a vengeance tomorrow. We’ll be poking fun at AI art.

More Graphics for the Stenographic Legion

As I went into in another post, pictures get several times more engagement than text pieces. But it’s difficult to cram what’s going on into small bites.

I’m going to try a hybrid approach and run the newspaper image below as an advertisement. Hopefully it will shock consumers into action. If you’d like to contribute to the ad campaign, feel free to use the front page of Stenonymous.com to donate.

Feel free to spread these images if you think there’s somewhere they belong. I’m only one person. I can only post so much. There are like 30,000 of you.

Cartoon commissioned by Stenonymous.com to stop corporate fraud in court reporting by the Speech-to-Text Institute
Cartoon commissioned by Stenonymous.com to warn consumers about digital court reporter training by BlueLedge. DCRs have less career mobility/flexibility.
Satire created by Stenonymous.com to explain the likely outcome of corporate fraud in court reporting, which goes unabated thanks to government’s failure to enforce existing law, including the FTC and New York Attorney General.