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Here’s how to stay safe from Chinese scammers releasing malicious Diwali-themed campaigns targeting Indians
If you have received social media links to websites that offer or promise free Diwali gifts, then t…
COVID-19 scammers kept posing as Microsoft to defraud people — so Microsoft got a court's permission to secretly seize their websites and shut them down
Scammers reportedly used malicious websites to send millions of emails that posed as legitimate Mic…
Aaron Holmes
How to keep scammers from infiltrating your text messages and making a fortune
Scammers can exploit vulnerabilities in the phone system to blast dangerous links to your phone. He…
Walt Hickey
How scammers use deepfakes of celebs to steal millions from fans
Scammers in Australia are using deepfakes of Steve Irwin's son and other celebrities to trick fans…
Kenneth Niemeyer
How scammers used 'social engineering' to steal over $1 million from an Idaho town of less than 4,000 people
Gooding, Idaho lost more than $1 million after scammers used "social engineering" to trick an emplo…
Kenneth Niemeyer
AI-savvy scammer uses deepfake video to steal ₹40,000 via WhatsApp
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become mainstream since the launch of ChatGPT, with awareness abou…
Meet the new AI grandmother that can scam the scammers on your behalf
"Scambaiting" is when the target of a scam knowingly plays along to waste the scammer's time. Now t…
Kenneth Niemeyer
If your bank texts you to warn you of a fraudulent charge, that's likely a scammer, FTC warns
Scammers are creating such realistic bank fraud warning texts, that they've milked unwitting consum…
Julie Bort
How a woman lost nearly $150,000 to a romance scammer who gaslit her
Linda Young told the BBC that she had fallen under the scammer's "spell" and that the experience wa…
Rebecca Rommen
A student loan scam operation was reportedly exposed after the scammer was arrested on cyberstalking charges
When arresting a man on cyberstalking charges, the FBI discovered a years-long student loan scam op…
Lauren Frias
Love is in the air, but so are scammers: Protect yourself from valentines day dating app frauds
Valentine's Day is a time for love and romance, but it can also be a time for scammers to take adva…
A Des Moines man fell victim to a money-laundering scam. Now he's facing charges after police say the scammers tricked him into becoming the scammer himself.
Police say scammers convinced the man they were government officials conducting a cybercrime invest…
Katie Hawkinson
Scammers sending WA messages to top tier employees' pretending to be their CEO: CloudSEK report
CloudSEK analysts found a spear phishing campaign targeting multiple corporations wherein a spec…
A 90-year-old Hong Kong woman was robbed of $32 million after scammers pretended to be Chinese law enforcement and accused her of money laundering, police say
Police said the scammers called the woman pretending to be Chinese officials who claimed she needed…
Kelly McLaughlin
Cash App scammers are impersonating Jeffree Starr and David Dobrik in order to fake cash giveaways and defraud people
When YouTubers announced recent cash giveaways, scammers targeted fans using fake Cash App accounts…
Aaron Holmes
Scammers used fake emails and a cloned website to trick health authorities into spending millions on face masks that didn't exist
The episode illustrates how scammers are cashing in on government agencies' desperation and need fo…
Aaron Holmes
Look out for fake donation links for Afghanistan and Haiti relief
After world disasters like the earthquake in Haiti and the Afghan refugee crisis, scammers flood th…
Heather Schlitz
There's A Reason Nigerian Scammers Are So Obvious In Their Emails
Therefore, it's in the scammers' best interest to minimize the number of false positives who cost t…
A Wells Fargo customer lost $68,000 after being tricked into making a wire transfer by a scammer, report says
Marc Beardsley told ABC7 he didn't realize a scammer got into his account and transferred $70,000 f…