A rapidly growing scam dubbed the "Phantom Hacker" is targeting users of Apple, Android and other platforms, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns. The scheme exploits trust in banks and ...

In 2024, we featured a viral TikTok that compared the cost of living between the US and Australia, prompting the idea that "America is a scam." While many people were shocked by the numbers ...

He was picked up at the airport in Bangkok and taken to a scam centre in Myanmar’s Myawaddy town, a notorious cyber fraud hub which also houses criminal syndicates. Wang has since been rescued ...

According to data from security firm Blockaid, at least 75 scam tokens were created as of Jan. 27, representing a threefold jump from the previous day. This mirrors the spike in fake tokens ...

Southeast Asia - especially border areas between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia - has become a hub for telecom and other online fraud since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the United ...

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