The Culture War Podcast with Tim Pool THEY'RE SCAMMING YOU w/ Trilogy Media, Art Kulik & Ashton Bingham
Jan 23, 2026
Art Kulik, co-founder of Trilogy Media and on-screen host of Scammed, is a veteran scam-baiter who works with law enforcement. Ashton Bingham, producer/performer with Trilogy Media, helps run sting operations and public awareness. They discuss how AI and deepfakes supercharge scams. They explain phishing, data markets, scam-baiting tactics, sting operations, forensics, international corruption, mule deterrence, and protecting families from impersonation.
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Quantity, Not Cleverness, Fuels Scams
- Scammers win by volume, not intelligence; tiny response rates scale into massive pools of victims.
- Art Kulik and Ashton Bingham emphasize quantity over quality in modern phishing and robocall campaigns.
AI Accelerates Social Engineering
- AI accelerates social engineering by producing plausible dialog, images, and deepfakes quickly.
- Ashton Bingham warns AI creates an "express lane for brainwashing" that makes victims trust fake relationships faster.
Use A Spoken Family Password
- Set a spoken family password to verify identity before transferring money or sensitive info.
- Art Kulik recommends never texting that password and using it for emergency verification.
