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Romance scam in USA: soldier at Fort Bragg sentenced for running the scam
A federal judge sentenced an Army member to prison for running a romance scam in which he impersona…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Grieving women warn of TikTok scam involving sending loved ones' ashes to a fake artist who uses the remains for extortion
Three women from different states are looking for answers after a scammer allegedly used the remain…
Jordan Hart
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FAIL: Cruise Line Ad Appears Next To USA Today Story On Couple Dying In Fall From Ship
Evidently, programmatic buying — the practice of serving web ads via automatic platforms — has some…
Judith Grey
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Soldiers Allegedly Gamed A National Guard Program For Tens of Millions of Dollars
An Army audit found that 1,200 recruiters had received payments that were potentially fraudulent, a…
Jeremy Bender
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Indians get the maximum spam calls according to Truecaller
Truecaller has shared a list of 2017’s top spam-plagued countries and your guess is right with Indi…
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'Small Town Shallow Pockets': Here Are The Crude Names Data Companies Use To Describe The Poor
"...precedent underscores the value of such products to unscrupulous businesses that seek to take a…
Rob Wile
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Social media posts and online ads claiming to sell COVID-19 vaccines are lying. Here's how to protect yourself from getting scammed.
From a smuggling ring in China to a purported biotech exec in Washington State, bad actors are hawk…
Annabelle Williams
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People are being victimized by a terrifying new email scam where attackers claim they stole your password and hacked your webcam while you were watching porn - here's how to protect yourself
"It is likely that this improved sextortion attempt is at least semi-automated: My guess is that th…
Kif Leswing
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Rohit Sharma set to take over from Babar Azam at top in ODI Batter Rankings
India's experienced skipper Rohit Sharma closes in on Babar Azam at the top of the ODI rankings for…
ANI
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Olive Garden's 'Never Ending' Pasta Promotion Backfires After Site Crashes
"This 1,000 available is a load of garbage," Facebook user Jarrett Case wrote on the page. "Due to …
Hayley Peterson
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Leaked Tesla email reveals the company is warning workers about scammers who might try to trick them with links claiming to have information about the coronavirus
Earlier this year, the coronavirus forced Tesla to briefly close its factory in Shanghai and its st…
Mark Matousek
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2 New York residents were charged in connection to a $27 million investment fraud scheme, which included duping investors into paying a $93,000 each to attend a 2017 Trump fundraiser
Sherry Xue Li and Lianbo Wang were charged with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspira…
Lauren Frias
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Even this expert on hackers got tricked into clicking a scam email
Benenson, a professor at The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg who leads the "Human Factors in Secur…
Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Pau…
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Scammers are conning Trump supporters out of thousands with 'Trump Bucks' they claim can be exchanged for real cash
Some fraudsters are using AI-generated videos of Trump and figures like Elon Musk promoting the pro…
Aaron McDade
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Is Coinbase safe? How to use the popular crypto-trading platform safely and securely
Is the crypto-trading platform Coinbase safe? There's some degree of risk, but you can take these s…
Sam Becker
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Trump once said crypto was a scam. Disclosures show he now owns more than $1M of it.
Trump's financial disclosure reveals over $1 million in Ethereum, marking a shift from his previous…
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
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The SEC is cracking down on investment advisers that falsely claim to use AI
The SEC settled with two firms, Delphia and Global Predictions, who it had charged with making fals…
Aruni Soni
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More than 90 anti-trafficking organizations are denouncing QAnon in an open letter
Anti-trafficking organizations say QAnon's claims are harming the actual work they do to prevent se…
Kelly McLaughlin
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50 nonprofit and campaign professionals urge Democratic fundraising company to crack down on 'prolific political scammers' and 'deceptive political emails'
The group sent the letter to EveryAction, a Democratic fundraising company that was recently acquir…
Bryan Metzger
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From arguing federal judges should be Christian to being involved in a scam shut down by the FTC, here's a full timeline of acting AG Matthew Whitaker's controversial past
Whitaker was not a widely-known figure before last week, but since his appointment as acting AG, so…