A handbook found during a police raid on a compound used by a cyberfraud gang in the Philippines offers detailed instructions ...

From there, the scammer files a new deed with the local county clerk, transferring the property to their name or an alias. Once the forged deed is filed, they can sell the home, take out a mortgage, ...

A scam called “pig butchering” gaining steam as a potent threat to Canadians almost lured this reporter — and it all started ...

Pierogi from Scammer Payback on YouTube joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about scams and scambaiting. Why do scammers ask victims to buy gift cards? What are some of the biggest ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A victim of a crypto-scammer lost an ...

A heated confrontation took place between TraxNYC owner Maksud Agadjani and an alleged scammer jeweler, Akay Diamonds.

The Newport Police Department is warning people of a scam, in which someone is sending text messages and claiming to work for ...

Scammers rely on confidence, scripts, and control. In this video, that control disappears. When confronted with the truth, ...

Police in Washington state are investigating reports that a scammer posing as popular MSNBC host Ari Melber bilked at least $20,000 out of a 73-year-old woman and even convinced her to meet up. The ...

In late November 2024, Seth Alvo of Berm Peak, a popular cycling YouTube channel with over 2.5 million subscribers, was made aware that someone had stolen his identity using LLMs like ChatGPT to ...

Brad Pitt has criticized the person who scammed a 53-year-old French woman out of $850,000 while pretending to be the Oscar-winning actor. As AI continues to improve, the number of con artists using ...

This kind of fraud is known as “pig-butchering” because the gangs say targets are led like hapless pigs to slaughter. It is ...