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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.

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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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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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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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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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'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…

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Crypto scammers have reportedly stolen ₹1000 crore off Indian users by posing as fake exchanges

The CoinEgg scam uses fake domains and social media accounts to coax users into investing in fake e…

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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…

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The crypto market crash made it less attractive to steal cryptocurrencies

“Cryptocurrency threats decreased due to upheaval in the cryptocoin market,” the report said and…

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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…

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Scammers are exploiting Google, Amazon and Apple’s services to steal crypto

Scams around Google, Amazon and Apple’s platforms have been recorded in the last six months. Scamme…

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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…

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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…

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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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Keeping your cryptocurrency safe — 12 ways to keep hackers, scammers and fraudsters at bay

In the pursuit of securing cryptocurrency you own, safety measures can range from time-teste…

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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…

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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…