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Here's how a group of YouTubers pranked a scam call centre in India that makes $18 million per year

Here’s where Mark Rober comes in. Rober is a former NASA engineer and YouTuber who posts videos …

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How scam call centers work, according to a 'scambaiter'

Jim Browning is a software engineer and an expert on scam call centers. His YouTube channel baits s…

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From Will Smith slapping Chris Rock to a scam call center being pranked, here are the top 10 videos of 2022

YouTube has shared the list of the top 10 YouTube videos of 2022. The list covers several videos, i…

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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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Mexican cartels have stolen over $300 million from American seniors in elaborate timeshare property scams

Older Americans are falling victim to massive timeshare fraud at the hands of Mexican cartels, the …

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Fake call centers in India tricked over 50,000 people across 15 countries, FBI joins investigation

The fraud was reported at the Gurugram police commissioner’s office where teams from Singapore…

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A programmer came up with a hilarious way to shut down dangerous Windows scammers

He built the bot army after a telemarketer called his house and used nasty language with his s…

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Banks and the federal government point fingers as Americans lose billions to online scams

Banks and the federal government are debating the best way to address rampant online scams, which h…

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Around 76 locations were raided in India as part of a crackdown on phony tech support scam calls

Microsoft and Amazon are teaming up with law enforcement and India's Central Bureau of Investigatio…

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If you're getting hounded by calls about a car warranty, you're not alone: Robocalls are spiking for the first time since before the pandemic

While there isn't a simple solution to ending robocalls altogether, there are a few tricks that cou…

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Robocallers are preying on the elderly with fake Medicare calls. It's a no-brainer to stop it, but nobody has.

Scammers are spoofing the Medicare hotline 1-800-MEDICARE to swindle seniors and commit Medicare fr…

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The FCC just fined an international network of robocallers nearly $300 million for making 5 billion calls in a three month span

The commission said the fraudsters made 5 billion auto warranty-related scam calls in three months.

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Job switchers beware: Some high-paying, remote jobs are scams

The Better Business Bureau warned that scammers are posting fake jobs at top-tier companies like Am…

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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…

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A North Carolina woman was arrested after trying to scam churches out of money by claiming her relative recently died

Crystal Gail Ingram, 43, was charged with two counts of attempting to obtain property by false pret…

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Indian-American couple arrested for laundering over USD 400,000 on behalf of phone scammers

Washington, Jul 15 () An Indian-American couple has been arrested by the federal agents for alleged…

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A new anti-robocall law pummels spam callers with fines and pressures phone companies to stop robocalls in their tracks - but it won't end them just yet

Americans get billions of robocalls every month, and cheap software makes them an easy tool for sca…

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Here's how a guy from Gurugram used pop-up ads and a call centre to defraud unsuspecting Americans for up to $3 million

A 29-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to three years in a US federal prison on charges o…