IRS Warns of New 'Smishing' Scam Targeting American Taxpayers
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning of a new "smishing" scam targeting Americans who are due to receive money as ...
Watch Out for This 'Chrome Update' Scam
A new malware scam is targeting WordPress websites. When you visit one of these affected websites, you're told to install a ...
Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams
It is accused of being a city built on scams, home to a lucrative yet deadly nexus of fraud, money-laundering and human ...
Even world leaders receive scam calls. Just ask Thailand’s prime minister
We are all vulnerable to the rapid spread of phone scams – including, it seems, world leaders. Thailand’s prime minister has revealed she got a call from an AI system, demanding money in the voice of ...
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Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes
F OR THE criminally minded, the allure of cryptocurrencies is easy to grasp. Decentralised online ledgers called blockchains ...
Crypto Hacker’s $65 Million Scam Ends in Indictment
The change in administration certainly means that a different approach to enforcement in the crypto space is coming, but it ...
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U.S. Shuts Down Another N. Korean IT Worker Scam, Indicting 5
The DOJ, which has move aggressively over the past year to find and shut down North Korea's numerous IT worker scams, indicts two U.S. citizens and three others for running a six-year operation the ...
For five years you couldn’t get a person on the phone at Cash App. Here come the scammers
With no actual live phone support at Cash App, scammers created fake phone support numbers to trick people. Ingenious.
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‘The virus had mutated’: How Karnataka cops are tackling the state’s cybercrime pandemic
While this might present a gloomy picture, Karnataka has been proactive in tackling cybercrimes. It was the first state in the country to launch the Cyber Crime Incident Report, which considerably ...