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Scammers are stealing homes from under their owners' noses. AI is making it scarily easy.
Scammers have seized properties from Elvis Presley's Graceland to modestly priced vacant lots. AI t…
Jordan Pandy,Katie Balevic
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Americans are losing more money to crypto scams than ever
Americans lost $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2023, a 45% increase, the FBI said.
Kenneth Niemeyer
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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
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Google says crypto fraudsters are making it look bad
Google filed a lawsuit against two scammers it says tricked the company into accepting fraudulent a…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Fake ChatGPT tokens are flooding the market as crypto scammers take advantage of the AI craze
Blockchain security company PeckShield alerted crypto investors that at least one issuer has create…
Carla Mozée
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An engineering giant behind Apple's HQ and the Sydney Opera House lost $25 million when scammers tricked an employee with a deepfake of a senior exec
Scammers used deepfakes to scam an employee in the Hong Kong office earlier this year, costing UK-b…
Alexandra Bacon
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Bitcoin trader loses almost $70 million after sending crypto to wrong online account address
A bitcoin trader lost nearly $70 million after criminals tricked them into sending crypto to a fake…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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London's massive public transport body is cracking down on crypto ads after meme token floki inu's campaign flooded the city's travel system
London's transport authority is tightening its rules on crypto ads after a campaign for an unregula…
Camomile Shumba
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A Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developer
Authorities in Hong Kong put out a warning that a group claiming Elon Musk developed its crypto-tra…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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North Korean scammers are posing as American job candidates to infiltrate crypto startups
"They're basically reading off of a piece of paper, and you can literally see their eyes — li…
Katie Canales
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'Pig-butchering' scams have netted criminals $75 billion in stolen crypto, study says
Pig-butchering scams involve sending a wrong-number text and then building trust with a victim, who…
Yuheng Zhan
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Binance says it's trying to hunt down the Squid Game crypto token scammers
Binance, one of the largest crypto exchanges, has set up a team to try and track down the Squid Gam…
Camomile Shumba
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Scammers are using crypto ATMs and impersonating everyone from law enforcement to utility workers to steal money, the FTC warns
"Nobody from the government, law enforcement, utility company, or prize promoter will ever tell you…
Carla Mozée
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Crypto scammers are masquerading as lovers on dating apps like Hinge and conning victims out of their entire life savings
FTC data shows romance scams involving bogus crypto investments hit a record-high in 2021, totaling…
Hannah Towey
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Squid Game cryptocurrency trading at $0, scammers make $2.1 million
The SQUID crypto coin was trading at $0.003203, reports CoinMarketCap. The developers behin…
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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…