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College students desperate for jobs are getting scammed online by criminals posing as tech recruiters
College students looking to join the workforce are being targeted by scammers offering attractive j…
Camilo Fonseca
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Fresno officials should have noticed a phishing scam that cost taxpayers more than $600,000, jury says
Fresno lost $600,000 to a phishing scam in 2020. A grand jury now says city officials should have d…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Quishing on the rise – Be alert while scanning payment QR codes
Digital payments have grown by leaps and bounds in India over the past few years, with unified paym…
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There's a new scam targeting iPhone owners with a barrage of notifications
Some iPhone owners have received a series of notifications about resetting their Apple ID password,…
Ana Altchek
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Warren Beatty almost fell for a phishing scam by someone posing as Eddie Redmayne
"Fifty Shades of Grey" star Jamie Dornan called Beatty a "legend" for his response to the phishing …
Eve Crosbie
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I was a first-time homebuyer and got scammed out of $167,000 of my life savings
A real-estate scam cost these first-time homebuyers their six-figure downpayment. Here's what happe…
Jordan Hart
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Fed-up 23andMe users lash out at the company, accusing it of scamming them into auto-renewal
Users of the genetic testing service 23andMe allege unauthorized subscription renewals and unexpect…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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The spam and the scam: What's driving those incessant political fundraising email and text campaigns blowing up your inbox
Even the progressive and conservative groups helping with the messages admit the constant barrage c…
Madison Hall
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My dad almost paid a ransom after being told I was kidnapped — but it was all a scam
A daughter says her dad got a call saying she had been kidnapped. The scam demanded thousands in ra…
Conz Preti
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Thousands of student-loan borrowers are set to get emails from Biden that their balances are wiped out. Here's what happens next.
Nearly 153,000 student-loan borrowers are getting debt cancellation ahead of schedule, thanks to th…
Ayelet Sheffey
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The terrifying new AI scam
Scammers are using AI-generated voices of people's actual children to swindle them out of their cas…
Eve Upton-Clark
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Hackers using Telegram bot to pull off large-scale phishing scams: Report
According to security researcher Radek Jizba from ESETResearch, Telekopye is a highly sophisticated…
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Andy Cohen says he was scammed out of 'a lot of money' by fraudsters who pretended to be his bank
On a recent episode of his "Daddy Diaries" podcast, co-hosted by John Hill, Andy Cohen recounted ho…
Amanda Goh
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6 ways to get the best deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday and how to avoid scams
It's easy to get lost in a sea of Black Friday do's and don'ts — here's how to stay savvy and…
Sebastian Cahill
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ED raids Bengal Food Minister's house in alleged civic body scam
More than a dozen premises linked to Ghosh have been covered in the state including North 24 Pargan…
ANI
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A millennial who'd bought 3 houses got scammed out of $60,000 buying her fourth — and it's more common than you might think
A day before Regina Smith was set to close on the house, she got an email saying to wire her $60,00…
Jordan Pandy
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Some Disney employees were so shocked by CEO Bob Iger's return they suspected an email announcement was a scam
Bob Iger, who led Disney from 2005 to 2020, was reinstated as CEO by the Walt Disney Co. board as t…
Britney Nguyen
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7 out of 10 Indians are unable to identify AI voice call scams, and half fall for scams with monetary losses
McAfee has released a report called ‘The Artificial Imposter,’ highlighting how the rise of artific…
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What are ‘vishing scams’ that start with a Namaste and end with monetary losses
vishing is a type of phone scam where the fraudster takes advantage of human error by calling and a…
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How to avoid getting scammed out of your home or becoming a victim of land fraud
Real-estate scams increased 64% from 2020 to 2021, according to the FBI. Two people with insider kn…