Blue Badge holders are being warned to watch out for scam calls and emails after a council data breach exposed disabled residents' contact details - experts say fraudsters will follow.</p>

A 24-year-old Nepali convenience-store clerk in Kobe sensed an elderly customer was being scammed and stepped in.

Thousands of fake FIFA sites are already live before the June 11 kickoff. Here's how the World Cup scam machine works, and the simple habits that keep you out of it.

Put your business on Google and the robocalls never stop? Here's why it happens, why blocking fails, and what actually works.

Authorities in Laos detained 73 foreign nationals suspected of involvement in telecom and online scam operations during two separate enforcement actions carried out in the first week of June, according to police reports. The arrests took place in Vientiane Province and Vientiane Capital. In Vientiane Province, police detained 49 foreign nationals during coordinated inspections conducted […]

Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation signal” to ensure whoever’s calling you is who they appear to be.

In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick The Yahoo Boys, journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop to fortune.

'We closely monitor the work of our international counterparts, while recognizing that each jurisdiction operates under its own legal framework,' the Competition Bureau states.

Until last month, pages within Stanford’s web ecosystem redirected towards websites selling weight loss supplements

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Customer data from more than 350 hotels around the world may have been accessed as part of realistic reservation-hijacking scams.

We’ve talked a lot about how Americans have somehow accepted the fact that our voice networks are now saturated with scammers, fraudsters, and robocallers (no, that’s not something that happens in well run, functionally regulated countries). I’ve also explained for years how the U.S. government solutions to the problems are usually ineffective because they’re endlessly […]

A new F-Secure study warns online scams hit over half of Americans in 2025, as AI-driven fraud grows more efficient and costly.

President Trump is officially dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, opting instead to create a $1.8 billion fund to further enrich himself, January 6 rioters, and virtually any right-winger who felt targeted by the Biden administration.

Trump initially attacked the IRS for allegedly allowing “a rogue, politically-motivated employee to leak private and…

Organizers said that for the most part, homeowners are not suspecting that their property is listed for sale online.

The problem wasn't that the money went somewhere; it was that the jingle strongly encouraged donors to imagine it going somewhere else.

In a rare triumph for both consumer protection law and everyone with functioning ears, a California judge has effectively told Kars4Kids that if it wants to keep blasting its psychic malware across the airwaves, it needs to stop being misleading about where…

Investigators say a 76-year-old woman was just moments away from handing over a fortune in gold before officers intervened.

The January 1936 issue of Real America magazine ran a long exposé by De Lysle Ferree Cass, general manager of the Illinois Intelligence Bureau, on a Depression-era racket — organized gangs of "charity chiselers" running phone-bank fundraisers out of Chicago and New York. — Read the rest

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Patrick Radden Keefe is interested in blockbuster stories. He once told _The New Yorker_ ’s _Critics at Large_ podcast that he wasn’t a fan of “true crime.” Instead, he often writes about fraud, gangsters, scammers, and high-powered lawyers. He’s the bad boy at the legacy magazine, the Anthony Bourdain of journalism, whom he coincidentally profiled in 2017, a year before his death. In another…

A bustling underground ecosystem is providing criminals with the tools to unlock iPhones—and wage phishing attacks against their contacts to access bank accounts and more.

The County accused the tech giant of permitting billions of scam ads to increase revenue.

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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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The hotel staffer who calls you with an urgent request for payment isn’t necessarily who they say they are.

It's not just you. Scammers, hackers, and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.

The CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Ohio urges residents to not follow any links or scan QR codes.

Researchers show scammers are using AI-manipulated footage of celebrity interviews to trick users into sharing their personal data.

Last month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced charges against five people in an unusual bribery scheme. This particular case was not about paying off law enforcement or convincing building inspectors to overlook an unsafe structure; instead, it involved bribes given to retail buyers for favorable placement of wine and […]

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The cyber capabilities of AI models have experts rattled. AI’s social skills may be just as dangerous.

One group of hackers used AI for everything from vibe coding their malware to creating fake company websites—and stole as much as $12 million in three months.

A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.

There is a long history of wild animals taking out their anger on motor vehicles. In Japan in 2024, a bear attacked a truck in defense of her offspring. As Car and Driver has reported, insurers in Australia frequently receive claims that involve kangaroo attacks on motor vehicles. In other words, the idea of a […]

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