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Father loses job over 9-year-old spending $118,000 on Minecraft YouTube ads using his company's credit card — 'I’m going to be working until I’m like 94,' refuses to set up GoFundMe or put up crypto coin to help repay massive bill (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-19 | by Jowi Morales | get Amazon Kids parental controls device → | tags: minecraft, youtube ads, credit card fraud

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Why is Meta’s Threads being flooded with eerily identical investment advice? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-18 | tags: threads, meta, investment scam

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Mastercard Joins Visa in Letting AI Bots Do Your Shopping (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-17 | get Amazon Echo Show 8 smart display → | tags: mastercard, visa, ai bots

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Music distributors agree to new anti-fraud measures (engadget.com)

2026-09-14 | by Sarah Fielding | tags: ifpi, streaming fraud, know your customer

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Fraud sealed the fate of controversial zoologist Paul Kammerer — 100 years on, his ideas deserve revisiting (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-14 | by Telford | tags: paul kammerer, academic fraud, nature article

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Threat Actor Generates 1M Personalized Fraud Emails in 3 Days (darkreading.com)

2026-09-11 | by Nate Nelson | get Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC security key → | tags: microsoft, phishing campaign, servicenow

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I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-11 | get Hacking Growth Sean Ellis book → | tags: google ads, dayzle, android

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I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-11 | tags: google ads, dayzle, install fraud

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The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-10 | by Thomas Macaulay | get Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert book → | tags: indxcoin, cryptocurrency fraud, solar geoengineering

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DoppelCart fraud network uses 119,000 fake shops to steal credit cards (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-09-08 | tags: doppelcart, nebty, fake e-shops

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China’s leading tech company is facing a racketeering trial in New York (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-08 | tags: huawei technologies, racketeering trial, trade secrets

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German scammer dupes two different buyers into spending thousands on hollow RTX 5090 GPUs — stripped-out cards netted fraudster $5,000 despite being worthless (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-08 | by Zhiye Liu | get MSI GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card → | tags: rtx 5090, nvidia, palit

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U.S. Steps Up Civil Cyber-Fraud Cases (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-04 | get Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC → | tags: openai, civil cyber-fraud, pentagon

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Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling (slashdot.org)

2026-09-03 | tags: google, polymarket, insider trading

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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database (wired.com)

2026-09-02 | by David Gilbert | tags: ice, homeland security, voter database

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Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes 'unfit' Booking.com, says consumer group (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-09-02 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | get Lonely Planet Great Britain travel guide book → | tags: booking.com, 10 downing street, ai fraud detection

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Here’s How Trump Plans to Steal the Midterm Elections, According to a Whistleblower (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-01 | tags: trump, midterm elections, whistleblower

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Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-31 | get Time Timer 60 minute visual timer → | tags: ariely, wertenbroch, psychological science

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4 devious email scams hitting inboxes right now, and how to spot them (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-31 | get Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC security key → | tags: email scams, corporate it, two-factor authentication

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A new stamp on cyberfraud prevention (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-25 | by Adam Conner-Simons | get Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC security key → | tags: maxmind, geoip, ip-address

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Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-24 | get Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC → | tags: glassbox, browser tracking, anti-fraud

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Tech CEO’s Ridiculous Excuse Falls Apart in Court, Sentenced to Prison (futurism.com)

2026-08-23 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: caastle, christine hunsicker, fraud

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Back-to-back Amazon CPU scam delivers empty Ryzen 5 9600X boxes in 72 hours — $ 10,000-a-month business customer captures fraud on camera (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-22 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: amazon, ryzen 5 9600x, pc plug

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This rags-to-riches property tycoon has just been sentenced by a Chinese court to life in prison (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: evergrande, hui ka yan, financial fraud

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If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: anthropic, autonomous ai, liability

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Hackers arrested over €30M bank fraud exploiting service provider flaw (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: commerzbank, bka, software vulnerability

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Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-13 | by Aisha Malik | tags: wondermind, selena gomez, securities fraud

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US government to allow private companies to carry out cyberattacks on its behalf (engadget.com)

2026-08-13 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: cybersecurity, homeland security, computer fraud

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Ukraine shuts down 94 fraudulent call centers, seize millions in cash (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: ukraine security service, call centers, bank accounts

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Hackers breach govt webmail while running parallel crypto fraud (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: jewelbug, webmail, cybercrime