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Scammers saying insane things

What happens if you completely break a scammer’s script? Instead of following their instructions, I started asking them random personal questions. Favorite car, dream job, workout routine—nothing was ...
Two bills are currently making their way through Frankfort that look to prevent a scam that has cost Kentuckians millions of ...
Public awareness campaigns for consumer fraud have long painted older adults as the primary victims of scams. But recent data flips the script, showing that younger adults actually report losing money ...
Insurers say cases of scammers manipulating people into staging crashes and filing bogus claims are under-reported ...
Let me tell you how I came within steps of becoming a victim in an elaborate social engineering scheme designed to exploit something so routine and apparently harmless as a Microsoft Teams call ...
OpenAI says scammers are using ChatGPT to commit romance fraud and fake law-firm personas. Here’s how to spot red flags and verify fast.
This starts like a classic refund scam: fake invoices, remote access, and a “refund form” designed to confuse you. Then the script flips—suddenly the scammer is the one under pressure, being told to ...
A search for love shouldn’t cost you your life savings — but for a growing number of Americans, it does. That’s what happened ...
A sprawling online scam industry worth an estimated tens of billions of dollars a year is being powered by trafficked workers subjected to torture, sexual abuse and forced labour inside heavily ...
Scammers used a fake Gemini AI chatbot to promote a bogus Google Coin presale, signaling a rise in AI-driven crypto impersonation fraud.
“In a million years, I never thought that somebody who lost a dog would be subject to people scamming them or trying to get money from them," said Laura Steiner.
If a "government" letter asks for your bank details or a quick UPI transfer to "clear" your stocks, it's not a notice-it's a heist.