Date / Time |
Story |
Monday April 15, 2024 @08:50PM |
Alleged Cryptojacking Scheme Consumed $3.5 Million of Stolen Computing To Make Just $1 Million |
Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:34PM |
A 'Law Firm' of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats As an SEO Scam |
Thursday March 28, 2024 @08:22PM |
Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps |
Monday December 11, 2023 @02:18AM |
That Call Center Tech Scammer Could Be a Human Trafficking Victim |
Tuesday November 14, 2023 @12:20PM |
The $2,000 Phones That Let Anyone Make Robocalls |
Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:59AM |
How a 'Refund Fraud' Gang Stole $700,000 From Amazon |
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @11:53AM |
Sysadmin, Spouse Admit To Part in 'Massive' Pirated Avaya Licenses Scam |
Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:41PM |
People Hire Phone Bots To Torture Telemarketers |
Friday June 23, 2023 @10:31PM |
US Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence For YouTube Content ID Scammer |
Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:11AM |
Crypto Catastrophe Strikes Some Atomic Wallet Users, Over $35 Million Thought Stolen |
Monday April 03, 2023 @04:53PM |
Novel Social Engineering Attacks Soar 135% Amid Uptake of Generative AI |
Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:30PM |
FCC Orders Phone Companies To Block Scam Text Messages |
Monday February 27, 2023 @10:49AM |
LinkedIn Scammers Step Up Sophistication of Online Attacks |
Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:52PM |
'Pig-Butchering' Scam Apps Sneak Into Apple's App Store and Google Play |
Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:22PM |
Keto Luxe Gummies Review - Is Brand worth Buying or Total Scam |
Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:59PM |
Brian Hall Gig Harbor Blog: Get Restoration Scam updates |
Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:17AM |
Debit Card Scam Recovery |
Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:28PM |
Five tips to avoid falling for a 'rug pulling' scam when buying an NFT |
Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:08PM |
Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars |
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:13AM |
Fraud, Scam Cases Increasing on P2P Payment Service Zelle, Senate Report Finds |
Friday September 23, 2022 @06:56PM |
Microsoft Edge Found Serving Malicious Tech Support Scam Ads |
Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:41PM |
23-Year-Old 'Crypto King' Has Luxury Cars Seized After $35 Million of Investor Money Vanishes |
Friday August 19, 2022 @04:34PM |
PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal |
Friday August 05, 2022 @01:24PM |
How a Crypto Developer Faked a DeFi Ecosystem |
Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:41PM |
'Meme Stock' AMTD Digital Just Surpassed Goldman Sachs With a 22,000% Gain |
Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:48PM |
Forsage Crypto Executives Charged With Running $300 Million Ponzi Scheme |
Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:43PM |
Apple and Google Come Under Scrutiny For Scammy Crypto Apps |
Tuesday July 26, 2022 @01:34PM |
Titanium Blockchain CEO Pleads Guilty To $21 Million Crypto Fundraising Scam |
Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:00PM |
Tech YouTubers Are Stepping Up a War Against Indian Scam Call Centers |
Friday April 22, 2022 @02:03PM |
Seized Silk Road Bitcoin To Clear Ross Ulbricht's $183M Debt |
Friday February 04, 2022 @05:22PM |
Traders Are Selling Themselves Their Own NFTs To Drive Up Prices |
Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:40PM |
Social Media Scammers Stole At Least $770 Million In 2021 |
Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:43PM |
Cybercriminals Laundered $8.6 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency in 2021 |
Monday January 24, 2022 @06:51PM |
40 People Arrested For Alleged Twitch Money Laundering Scheme |
Friday January 21, 2022 @06:04PM |
Ozzy Osbourne's NFT Project Shared a Scam Link, and Followers Lost Thousands of Dollars |
Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:34PM |
Scammers Put Fake QR Codes On Parking Meters To Intercept Parkers' Payments |
Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:31PM |
Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Jr. Sued for Alleged Crypto Scam |
Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:19AM |
'Play-to-Earn' and Bullshit Jobs |
Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:40PM |
Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150,000 Stolen From Users In NFT Scam |
Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:39PM |
Binance Says It's Trying To Hunt Down the Squid Game Crypto Token Scammers |
Monday November 01, 2021 @05:15PM |
Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million |
Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:34PM |
An Unprecedented Wave of Online Bank Fraud Is Hitting Britain |
Monday October 11, 2021 @11:16AM |
Facebook To Act on Illegal Sale of Amazon Rainforest |
Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:54PM |
Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed |
Monday October 04, 2021 @09:53PM |
Apple Finally Lets You Report App Store Scams |
Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:45PM |
US Judge Sentences Crypto Hedge Fund Scammer To Over Seven Years In Prison |
Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:40PM |
Theranos Burned Through $2M a Week as Investors Were Given Rosy Projections |
Monday August 16, 2021 @03:01PM |
How International Scam Artists Pulled off an Epic Theft of Covid Benefits |
Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:28PM |
Scammer Service Will Ban Anyone From Instagram For $60 |
Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:23PM |
YouTube Channel 'Tech Support Scams' Taken Offline By Tech Support Scam |
Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:34PM |
WallStreetBets Forum Members Targeted in Telegram Cryptocurrency Scam |
Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:46AM |
Apple's $64 Billion-a-Year App Store Isn't Catching the Most Egregious Scams |
Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:11PM |
Wix and Their Dirty Tricks |
Monday March 22, 2021 @05:20PM |
Using AI To 'Clap Back' At Phone Scammers |
Monday March 22, 2021 @11:00AM |
A Security App's Fake Reviews Give Us a Window Into 'App Store Optimization' |
Tuesday February 16, 2021 @05:38PM |
Losses To Romance Scams Reached a Record $304 Million in 2020 |
Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:06PM |
Fake Amazon Reviews 'Being Sold in Bulk' Online |
Monday February 08, 2021 @04:07PM |
Developer Exposes Multiple Scam Apps on the App Store, Some Bringing in Millions of Dollars in Revenue |
Friday January 29, 2021 @12:00PM |
Who's Making All Those Scam Calls? |
Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:00PM |
Amazon Still Hasn't Fixed Its Problem With Bait-and-Switch Reviews |
Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:54PM |
Trump's Campaign Website Hacked By Cryptocurrency Scammers |
Thursday April 23, 2020 @03:33PM |
When in Doubt: Hang Up, Look Up, and Call Back |
Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:31PM |
Ripple Sues YouTube Over Cryptocurrency Scam Videos |
Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:49PM |
Cash App Scammers Are Using Coronavirus To Exploit People |
Monday March 30, 2020 @12:58PM |
Hacker Hijacks Microsoft YouTube Accounts To Broadcast Crypto Ponzi Scam |
Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:51PM |
Facebook Sues Namecheap For Letting Scammers Register Lookalike Domains |
Friday February 07, 2020 @02:08PM |
Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam |
Tuesday November 12, 2019 @09:48PM |
Dutch Court Orders Facebook To Ban Celebrity Crypto Scam Ads |
Friday November 08, 2019 @12:14PM |
Ambrosia, the Young Blood Transfusion Startup, Is Quietly Back in Business |
Friday September 20, 2019 @09:25PM |
Two Arrested In $10 Million Tech Support Scam That Preyed On the Elderly |
Tuesday September 10, 2019 @09:48PM |
281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested In Massive Global Sweep |
Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:51PM |
Justice Department Indicts 80 Individuals, Most in Nigeria, in a Massive Business Email Scam Bust |
Friday August 02, 2019 @05:12PM |
GermanWiper Ransomware Hits Germany Hard, Destroys Files, Asks For Ransom |
Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:16PM |
How Over 25 People Got Scammed Into Working at a Nonexistent Game Company |
Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:53PM |
Investigating Some Subscription Scam iOS Apps |
Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:46PM |
Millions of Business Listings on Google Maps Are Fake -- and Google Profits |
Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:35PM |
FTC Fines Four Operations Responsible For Billions of Illegal Robocalls |
Friday March 01, 2019 @04:34PM |
Facebook Admits 18% of Research Spyware Users Were Teens -- Not Less Than 5% It Claimed Earlier This Year |
Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:46PM |
Former Hacking Team Members Are Now Spying on the Blockchain for Coinbase |
Tuesday February 12, 2019 @02:57PM |
'You've Won $72 Million and a Mercedes Benz': Phone Scammer Gets 6 Years in Prison After He Made the Mistake of Calling William Webster, Ex-FBI and CIA Director |
Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:20PM |
YouTube Strikes Now Being Used As Scammers' Extortion Tool |
Sunday January 06, 2019 @04:56PM |
Google Drive Has a Serious Spam Problem, But Google Says a Fix is Coming |
Thursday December 13, 2018 @06:02PM |
Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam |
Monday December 10, 2018 @09:14PM |
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams |
Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:46PM |
Samsung Caught (Again) Using DSLR Photo To Advertise Smartphone Camera |
Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:46PM |
Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says |
Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:05PM |
After Microsoft Complaints, Indian Police Arrest Tech Support Scammers At 26 Call Centers |
Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:30PM |
Twitter is Struggling To Contain the Bitcoin Scam Outbreak |
Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:24PM |
Google Chrome Will Soon Warn Users About Web Pages With Unclear Mobile Billing Services |
Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:37PM |
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever |
Tuesday September 25, 2018 @08:07PM |
Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers |
Friday September 14, 2018 @04:47PM |
Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report |
Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:09PM |
Facebook Now Deletes Posts That Financially Endanger, Trick People |
Monday August 06, 2018 @08:02PM |
Researchers Discover Large Twitter Botnet Pushing Ethereum Scam |
Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:26PM |
24 People Have Now Been Sentenced In India-Based Phone-Scam Case |
Monday June 11, 2018 @04:16PM |
FBI Recovers $14M From Bogus Business Account Wire Transfers |
Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:16PM |
Robocallers Win Even if You Don't Answer |
Monday May 07, 2018 @09:40AM |
Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever |
Monday May 07, 2018 @08:48AM |
Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging |
Friday May 04, 2018 @02:44PM |
Google Broke Up a Vietnamese Con Scheme After an Employee Was Scammed Buying a Bluetooth Headset |
Thursday April 26, 2018 @02:42PM |
Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Scam Facebook Users Out of Their Cash |
Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:04AM |
German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million |
Friday December 15, 2017 @07:57AM |
One of Australia's Richest Men Lost $1 Million To Email Scam |
Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:21PM |
Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums To Rank in Search Engines |
Tuesday December 05, 2017 @07:44PM |
Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering |
Friday November 10, 2017 @11:17AM |
Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf |
Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:43PM |
A Canadian University Gave $11 Million To a Scammer |
Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:08PM |
Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam |
Monday July 03, 2017 @04:48PM |
China Suspects Its 'Car-Eating,' Traffic-Straddling Bus Is a Total Scam |
Friday June 23, 2017 @04:10PM |
'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' |
Friday June 23, 2017 @01:43PM |
Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs Get Shot Down by NASA |
Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:23PM |
FCC Proposes $120 Million Fine On Florida Robocall Scammer |
Monday June 12, 2017 @06:16PM |
Report Reveals In-App Purchase Scams In the App Store |
Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:50PM |
Call Center Operator and His Cousin Steal $645,000 From UK Water Supplier |
Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:31PM |
Gmail, Google Docs Users Hit By Massive Email Phishing Scam |
Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:02AM |
Researchers Find 25,000 Domains Used In Tech Support Scams |
Monday April 10, 2017 @06:02PM |
Thousands of Fake Google Maps Listings Redirect Users To Fraudulent Sites |
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:44PM |
Phony VPN Services Are Cashing In On America's War On Privacy |
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:31AM |
Questions Linger After ISP Blocks TeamViewer Over Fraud Fears |
Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:22PM |
Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers |
Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:56PM |
Sensitive Data Stored On Box.com Accounts Accessible Via Search Queries |
Friday November 18, 2016 @01:15AM |
New Chrome Extension Automatically Negotiates With Comcast For Rate Discounts |
Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:43PM |
Feds Charge 61 People In Indian-Based IRS Phone Scam Case |
Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:56AM |
Revealed: How One Amazon Kindle Scam Made Millions of Dollars |
Friday September 09, 2016 @12:53PM |
Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in US Diesel Emissions Probe |
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @07:36PM |
One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses 40 Million Euros In Online Scam |
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @05:22PM |
Half Of People Click Anything Sent To Them |
Monday August 01, 2016 @01:13PM |
Reported Top Nigerian Email Scammer Arrested |
Saturday July 23, 2016 @05:05AM |
Tinder Scam Promises Account Verification, But Actually Sells Porn |
Thursday July 14, 2016 @04:49PM |
CleanSpace CO Sensor Runs On Freevolt RF Harvesting |
Wednesday June 22, 2016 @01:09AM |
Interview With A Craigslist Scammer |
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:05PM |
Indie Dev TinyBuild Lost $450K To Fraudulent Sales Facilitated By G2A |
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @04:30PM |
'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Sentenced To 2.5 Years In Prison For Facebook Phishing Scam |
Monday June 13, 2016 @10:27AM |
Walgreens Cuts Ties With Blood-Test Startup Theranos |
Monday May 02, 2016 @08:03AM |
The Future of Shopping: Trapping You in a Club You Didn't Know You Joined |
Tuesday April 19, 2016 @12:12PM |
Popular Dark Web Market Disappears, Users Migrate In Panic |
Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:18PM |
Government's Fake University Trap Results in 21 Visa Fraud Arrests |
Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:04AM |
Chinese Scammers Take Mattel To the Bank, Phishing Them For $3 Million |
Tuesday March 29, 2016 @03:51PM |
US Federal Court: This Year's Scams More Aggressive and Sophisticated Than Years Past |
Saturday March 26, 2016 @01:01PM |
Six Charged For Hacking Lottery Terminals To Spew Only Winning Tickets |
Friday March 18, 2016 @01:59AM |
Dozens of Russian Banks Phished By Crooks Pretending To Be FinCERT |
Monday March 14, 2016 @07:50PM |
Typosquatters Running .om Domain Scam To Push Mac Malware |
Monday March 07, 2016 @11:28AM |
Seagate Hit By Targeted Phishing Attacks Seeking W2 Data |
Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:06AM |
Google Targets Fake "Download" and "Play" Buttons |
Saturday January 23, 2016 @03:48PM |
Symantec Disavows Business Partner Caught Running a Tech Support Scam |
Tuesday December 29, 2015 @09:33AM |
Allegations of Data Manipulation At Theranos |
Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:42AM |
Scammy Tech Support Sites Now Serving Up Ransomware |
Saturday November 21, 2015 @12:54AM |
FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers |
Thursday November 19, 2015 @01:37PM |
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets |
Tuesday October 20, 2015 @09:38AM |
UK's Largest Online Pharmacy Sold Patients' Personal Data To Fraudsters |
Tuesday September 29, 2015 @08:56AM |
Study: $1.8 Billion In Reshipping Fraud With Stolen Cards Each Year |
Tuesday September 15, 2015 @08:52AM |
UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows |
Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:23AM |
Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men |
Thursday August 20, 2015 @12:39PM |
Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' |
Friday August 14, 2015 @08:38PM |
Former Employees Accuse Kaspersky Lab of Faking Malware |
Tuesday May 05, 2015 @10:19AM |
Appeals Judge Calls Prenda an "Ingenious Crooked Extortionate Operation" |
Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:01AM |
Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video |
Monday April 20, 2015 @12:47AM |
Facebook Working To Weed Out Fake Likes |
Friday February 20, 2015 @05:11AM |
Sony Offers a "Premium Sound" SD Card For a Premium Price |
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:36AM |
Another Bitcoin Exchange Fraud |
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:01AM |
$10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It |
Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:23PM |
The Strange Story of the First Quantum Art Exhibition In Space |
Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:00AM |
65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers |
Thursday December 04, 2014 @09:34AM |
Fraudulent Apps Found In Apple's Store |
Tuesday November 25, 2014 @12:18PM |
Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her |
Tuesday November 25, 2014 @10:06AM |
Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal |
Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:56PM |
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? |
Thursday November 06, 2014 @08:29PM |
Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features |
Friday October 03, 2014 @06:08PM |
Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots |
Thursday August 28, 2014 @08:33PM |
Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' |
Wednesday August 27, 2014 @05:45PM |
Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards Show Up In Germany |
Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:24PM |
TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers |
Tuesday August 12, 2014 @09:32AM |
Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording |
Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:53AM |
$500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now |
Friday June 20, 2014 @06:39PM |
Make a Date With Fraud |
Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:17AM |
Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls |
Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:39PM |
1.2% of Apps On Google Play Are Repackaged To Deliver Ads, Collect Info |
Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:53AM |
Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It |
Thursday May 23, 2013 @11:05AM |
A Cold Look at Cold Fusion Claims: Why E-Cat Looks Like a Hoax |
Friday April 26, 2013 @12:09PM |
Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real |
Friday April 19, 2013 @07:51PM |
Android Users Get Scammed With In-App Antivirus Ads |
Tuesday April 02, 2013 @12:08PM |
FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls |
Monday March 11, 2013 @12:40AM |
Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam |
Sunday October 21, 2012 @03:20AM |
Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs |
Saturday October 20, 2012 @04:48PM |
Visa and MasterCard Take Fight To Scammers |
Thursday October 04, 2012 @03:19PM |
Recording of Recently Shut-Down Telemarketers In Action |
Monday July 23, 2012 @07:56AM |
Australians Receive SMS Death Threats |
Monday April 23, 2012 @12:18PM |
US Charges English Twins Over $1.2m 'Stock Robot' Fraud |
Saturday October 29, 2011 @04:40PM |
1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online |
Saturday September 24, 2011 @05:37PM |
Steam Translation Community Slaving Away |
Monday August 15, 2011 @04:45AM |
8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars |
Friday May 27, 2011 @06:55PM |
ATM Repairman Accused of Taking (and Faking) Cash |
Saturday January 15, 2011 @12:24PM |
Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic |
Monday November 15, 2010 @02:41PM |
Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams |
Tuesday November 09, 2010 @09:01PM |
Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam |
Saturday October 30, 2010 @12:55PM |
Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet |
Tuesday September 14, 2010 @09:13AM |
Criminals Steal House Thanks To Hacked Email |
Thursday August 19, 2010 @04:36PM |
Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities |
Tuesday July 06, 2010 @12:26PM |
The Unstoppable 'Tech Support' Scam |
Wednesday June 16, 2010 @08:22AM |
420,000 Scam E-mails Sent Every Hour In UK Alone |