Most scam texts are easy to spot, but this one feels different. At first glance, the message looks polished and uses official branding that signals credibility. It also includes technical details that ...
Scam emails are getting better at looking official. This one claims to be an urgent warning from Microsoft about your email account. It looks serious. It feels time sensitive. And that is exactly the ...
AI has helped these scams blossom. But the tax code now offers little relief for those who have lost money to a romance scam—unless it turns into an investment scam. Valentine’s Day has typically been ...
The Paris prosecutor’s office said a network involving museum employees and tour guides had been operating for a decade. By Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting from Paris When officials at the Louvre in ...
These days, rather than showing you the traditional list of links when you run a search query, Google is intent on throwing up AI Overviews instead: synthesized summaries of information scraped off ...
The median reported loss for romance scams was $2,218 in the third quarter of 2025. Romance scammers will frame their pitch one way for a 25-year-old woman and another for a 55-year-old divorced male, ...
A new social engineering campaign is abusing fake CAPTCHA verification pages to trick Windows users into launching StealC information-stealing malware. The attack relies on compromised websites that ...
To misquote Benjamin Franklin, nothing is certain in this world except for death, taxes and scammers. Unfortunately, with tax filing season now in full swing, the fraudsters are also out in force, ...
For years, consumers have been getting text messages stating a major delivery carrier needs them to "update delivery preferences" on a package by clicking a link. The problem? The texts are scams, and ...
In 2024, Ivan co-founded EOS Collective, a non-profit organisation dedicated to investigating the dynamics of the online scam industry and the criminal networks behind it, and supporting survivors of ...
Amazon Prime customers are the latest group of consumers to be targeted by scammers, cybersecurity experts say. According to a Feb. 4 X post from Guardio Security, hackers are impersonating Amazon's ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Here's a quick rental scam tip. Recent data from the Federal Trade Commission shows renters have lost millions of dollars to schemes. Since 2020, nearly 65,000 rental scams and $65 ...