Charles Henderson

Charles Henderson is the Coalfire cybersecurity expert quoted in AI makes it easier to code websites — including ones that scam consumers. He argues that AI does not create a new kind of scam so much as make existing web impersonation cheaper, faster, and easier to scale.

His contribution is the episode’s clearest AI-Enabled Scam Industrialization frame. Before AI, convincing fake retail sites required more specialized skill or hired help; with AI coding agents, scammers can generate many official-looking websites with fewer prompts and less labor.

Connections

• Coalfire - his organization in the source.
• AI-Assisted Website Scams and AI-Enabled Scam Industrialization - central concepts he supports.
• Fake Retail Website Impersonation - retail-specific scam surface.
• Marketplace Tech - show context.