Tag: Scammers
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Scammers impersonate cops, use arrest threats to extort victims
Scammers are posing as police officers and federal agents, threatening arrest unless victims pay up, the FBI warns. The FBI’s Internet …
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Scammers leave AI fingerprints all over fake antivirus renewal page
AI appears to be helping scammers with little web development skill build convincing fake antivirus-renewal pages, Malwarebytes found. The …
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Scammers have figured out the best time to text you
The suspicious calls, texts, and DMs you got recently aren’t a coincidence, according to Malwarebytes. Scammers have worked out which …
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Scammers are getting smarter about where they target you
Scammers are becoming more strategic about where they target people. Nine in ten toll scams—the fake unpaid-toll messages that threaten …
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Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China
Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling …
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Scammers are using fake crypto AML checkers to drain your wallet
Scammers are creating fake crypto wallet-checking sites that promise to tell you whether a wallet is linked to suspicious activity. …
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Scammers target OnlyFans users with deepfakes
OnlyFans creators are used to posting adult videos of themselves online, but what happens if someone takes control of their images and uses …
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AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating …
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Warning: Scammers are using FaceTime to empty bank accounts
Apple is urging users to treat any suspicious FaceTime call or message as untrusted, especially if it involves payments, refunds, password …
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Scammers are using AI to sell impossible flowers
We’ve had problems with deepfake celebrity scams, non-consensual deepfake sexual material, and deepfake politicians. Now we have to deal …
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The Romance Scammer Who Made a Small Fortune Posing as a WWE Superstar
edition of WIRED Book Club, we’ve chosen Carlos Barragán’s The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance …
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