Working for global banks and telcos, Apate’s 200,000 AI characters pretend to fall victim to 600,000 scam calls each month — ...

A text from a mechanic or car dealership can seem perfectly ordinary: “Your vehicle is due for service,” “Your appointment is tomorrow,” or “This is Mark from the dealership. Can you confirm your VIN?

Losses to romance baiting, or pig butchering, scams increased 40% year-on-year (YoY) in 2024 to comprise a third of total crypto fraud revenue, according to Chainalysis. A day before Valentine’s Day, ...

Nobody likes spam messages, but some of them contain rather fascinating scams. Case in point, [Ben Tasker] recently got a few romance scam emails that made him decide to take a poke at the scam behind ...

Hello, is this Marta?” The man on the phone had an accent that was hard to place, but his English was clear and direct. He introduced himself as Nick. As you might expect of someone in her 80s, Marta ...

In some cases, the emotional and psychological harm from the attack was so great that it has led to people taking their own life. Interpol is now advocating for different terminology to describe these ...

SYDNEY, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O), opens new tab said it has taken down some 8,000 so-called "celeb bait" scam ads from Facebook and Instagram as part of a new effort with Australian banks to ...

Everybody has their own way of dealing with phone scammers. I tried different tactics. When someone tried to sell me an extended car warranty I played "the dumbest man in the world." When they asked ...

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks is warning about a fake social media post claiming baiting and feeders will be allowed on public hunting lands. "It has come to our ...

Whether we'd like to admit it or not, we fall for scams sometimes. Maybe not we Pandas particularly, but we as a society. According to a report by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and Feedzai, scammers ...