When I say scammers are using the hantavirus, I don't mean they're engineering devious biological weapon attacks (although I'm sure they would if they could.) It feels like it's barely been any time at all since a hantavirus outbreak left a Dutch cruise ship stranded and quarantined. — Read the rest
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is still looking for a Pennsylvania woman who faked a terminal cancer diagnosis to swindle friends and family out of thousands of dollars.
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You know how it is. You're just sitting on the couch relaxing when you suddenly get a text from a prison out of the blue, warning you that your daughter has been detained and needs your help. In a second, you go from an ordinary day to starring in _Taken_ …
…Before you realize you don't actually have a daughter. — Read the rest
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A coordinated effort to target international cryptocurrency scammers resulted in about 276 people being arrested, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced April 29.
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404 Media has obtained a copy of ‘Haotian AI’, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster's face into anyone else's on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence break out amid the military-style immigration sweeps across the country. Then she read about legal residents being arrested at immigration court and wondered when federal agents would set their sights on her […]
The most chill way to catch a crook.
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Luckily there’s an easy way to tell if you’re dealing with a legitimate law enforcement officer or a con artist. Bike riding has been largely unregulated in Japan for several decades, but big changes came at the start of this month with the introduction of the blue ticket (“aoikippu” in Japanese) system. This new legal […]
Welcome to The #questionable-edits OSM Iceberg!
Over the past 5 months I have been collating some of the strangest, funniest and most excruciating examples of vandalism, mistakes and creative mapping. This Iceberg takes its name from the #questionable-edits channel on the OSM World Discord where we share the weird, wild and wonderful things we’ve seen while mapping. It should be…
Fake police officer targets possibly the worst person, phone transcript isn’t so great either. In this article, we’ve got two things to talk about. Both of them are pretty dumb, but we’ll start with the one that’s illegal. On March 16, the Iwate Prefectural Police released an audio recording of a conversation that took place […]
It’s no secret that Google really doesn’t like it that people are installing Android applications from any other source than the Play Store. Last year they proposed locking everyone into …read more
Several call centers in India were raided after an investigation found that hundreds of Maryland residents were scammed out of more than $48 million.
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