Published on: 2025-07-03 18:01:00
When we write about fraud or identity theft at CNET, we normally advise victims to contact the Federal Trade Commission or the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center to share their experience. Even if you didn't lose money or give up any personal identifiable information -- like your Social Security number -- in a conversation with a cybercriminal, you should still report the scam. Only 38% of fraud reports received by the FTC in 2024 involved monetary losses. Fraud reports help the FTC and FBI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 15:01:00
When we write about fraud or identity theft at CNET, we regularly advise victims to contact the Federal Trade Commission or the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center to share their experience. However, suppose you didn't lose money or give up any personal identifiable information, like your Social Security number. In that case, you might not think it's necessary to take this step -- but you should. Only 38% of fraud reports received by the FTC in 2024 involved monetary losses. Fraud reports he
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 11:15:00
When we write about identity theft or fraud at CNET, we often advise victims to contact the Federal Trade Commission or the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center to report their experience. However, suppose you didn't lose money or give up any personal identifiable information, like your Social Security number. In that case, you might not think it's necessary to take this step -- but you should. Only 38% of fraud reports received by the FTC in 2024 involved monetary losses. Fraud reports help
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 12:49:46
Ireland has pitched a law to force tech companies to vet ads before publishing them, according to reporting by Financial Times . This is part of a larger push by the EU Commission to make tech entities responsible for financial fraud that occurs on their platforms. It also comes as President Trump has begun pushing the EU to scale back regulation of big American tech companies . While a proposal by the EU Commission would indeed put companies on the hook for financial fraud, Ireland’s plan hope
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 04:03:02
The Trump administration filed an emergency application on Friday asking the Supreme Court to restore DOGE's access to Social Security Administration records. A lower-court order that prohibited DOGE's access is causing "irreparable harm to the executive branch" and thwarting DOGE's attempts to "eliminate waste and fraud," US Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in the appeal. "The government cannot eliminate waste and fraud if district courts bar the very agency personnel with expertise and the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 19:29:00
In brief: It seems one profession that really loves generative AI is that of the cybercriminal. Microsoft warns that the technology has evolved to the point where creating an online scam can now take minutes rather than days or weeks and requires little technical knowledge. In its latest edition of the Cyber Signals report, Microsoft writes that AI has started to lower the technical bar for fraud and cybercrime actors looking for their own productivity tools. The range of cyber scams AI can be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 00:29:00
In brief: It seems one profession that really loves generative AI is that of the cybercriminal. Microsoft warns that the technology has evolved to the point where creating an online scam can now take minutes rather than days or weeks and requires little technical knowledge. In its latest edition of the Cyber Signals report, Microsoft writes that AI has started to lower the technical bar for fraud and cybercrime actors looking for their own productivity tools. The range of cyber scams AI can be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 12:00:00
A large-scale ad fraud operation called 'Scallywag' is monetizing pirating and URL shortening sites through specially crafted WordPress plugins that generate billions of daily fraudulent requests. Scallywag was uncovered by bot and fraud detection firm HUMAN, which mapped a network of 407 domains supporting the operation that peaked at 1.4 billion fraudulent ad requests per day. HUMAN's efforts to block and report Scallywag traffic have resulted in its shrinking by 95%, although the threat act
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-02 23:00:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More More than 40% of corporate fraud is now AI-driven, designed to mimic real users, bypass traditional defenses and scale at speeds that overwhelm even the best-equipped SOCs. In 2024, nearly 90% of enterprises were targeted, and half of them lost $10 million or more. Bots emulate human behavior and create entire emulation frameworks, synthetic identities, and behavioral
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-07 08:05:48
Maple syrup, often called Canada’s “liquid gold,” has long been a target for fraudulent activities, such as the dilution or substitution with other syrups, due to its high demand. Amid threats from the United States of increased tariffs and the imposition of a baseline tariff of 10% on all imports that aren’t compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, increased maple syrup fraud is a possibility. Food fraud, or economically motivated adulteration, is the deliberate misrepresenta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-09 00:10:21
Elon Musk’s war on fraud and abuse has impacted the Social Security Administration’s ability to distribute payments, according to a new report. In particular, frequent outages of the agency’s website in recent weeks have been linked to its expansion of fraud checks earlier in the claims process. From the Washington Post: The network crashes appear to be caused by an expansion initiated by the Trump team of an existing contract with a credit-reporting agency that tracks names, addresses and othe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-10 09:00:00
An unassuming ATM at the back of a gas station. An unexpected text from your bank. A data breach. What do these things have in common? They're all ways fraudsters can steal your personal identifiable data and your money. US consumers lost $12.5 billion to fraud last year, according to a new Federal Trade Commission report. Fraud can take on many forms, including scams where the victim willingly sends money under false pretenses, identity theft and unauthorized bank or credit card transactions.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-19 08:00:00
An unassuming ATM at the back of a gas station. An unexpected text from your bank. A data breach. What do these things have in common? They're all ways fraudsters can steal your personal identifiable data and your money. US consumers lost $12.5 billion to fraud last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Fraud can take on many forms, including scams where the victim willingly sends money under false pretenses, identity theft and unauthorized bank or credit card transactions. Anyone c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-22 21:49:55
Trevor Milton, the founder of bankrupt hydrogen trucking startup Nikola who was convicted of fraud, has been pardoned by President Trump, the White House confirmed to TechCrunch. Milton was convicted in October 2022 of one count of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud related to claims he made about Nikola’s progress to investors. He was sentenced to four years in prison in December 2023. He has been out on a $100 million bond while he appealed that sentence. The pardon comes just a f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-23 23:00:00
Gavesh’s journey had started, seemingly innocently, with a job ad on Facebook promising work he desperately needed. Instead, he found himself trafficked into a business commonly known as “pig butchering”—a form of fraud in which scammers form romantic or other close relationships with targets online and extract money from them. The Chinese crime syndicates behind the scams have netted billions of dollars, and they have used violence and coercion to force their workers, many of them people tra
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-03 22:27:40
In May 2024, the website of ad-tech firm Kubient touted that the company was "a perfect blend" of ad veterans and developers, "committed to solving the growing problem of fraud" in digital ads. Like many corporate sites, it also linked old blog posts from its home page, including a May 2022 post on "How to create a world free of fraud: Kubient's secret sauce." These days, Kubient's website cannot be reached, the team is no more, and CEO Paul Roberts is due to serve one year and one day in priso
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 11:04:53
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent the first six weeks of the new Trump administration turning the federal government upside down. It has moved from agency to agency, accessing sensitive data and payment systems, all on a supposed crusade to audit the government and stop fraud, waste, and abuse. DOGE has posted some of its “findings” on its website, many of which have been revealed to be errors. But two federal auditors with years of experience, who have
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-14 03:00:00
It was almost an hour into our Google Meet call. I was interviewing Kitboga, a popular YouTube scam baiter with nearly 3.7 million subscribers, known for humorously entrapping fraudsters in common scams while livestreaming. "I assume I'm talking to Evan Zimmer," he says with a mischievous glance, his eyes exposed without his trademark aviator sunglasses on. We were close to the end of our conversation when he realized that my image and audio could have been digitally altered to impersonate me t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-20 07:12:41
It was almost an hour into our Google Meet call. I was interviewing Kitboga, a popular YouTube scam baiter with nearly 3.7 million subscribers, known for humorously entrapping fraudsters in common scams while livestreaming. "I assume I'm talking to Evan Zimmer," he says with a mischievous glance, his eyes exposed without his trademark aviator sunglasses on. We were close to the end of our conversation when he realized that my image and audio could have been digitally altered to impersonate me t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-22 14:34:39
Unelected White House advisor Elon Musk has seemingly been spending the vast majority of his time ransacking the federal government and excising what he claims to be "waste" and "fraud" with the help of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Turning his back on his businesses has come at a steep cost. His EV maker Tesla, in particular, has felt the hurt this week, nosediving a whopping 15 percent on Monday (though the stock has recovered a few points in the early trading hours of Tu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-23 21:05:59
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today that Americans lost a record $12.5 billion to fraud last year, a 25% increase over the previous year. Consumers reported that investment scams resulted in the highest losses, totaling around $5.7 billion with a median loss of over $9,000 and exceeding all other fraud categories. The second largest reported loss was linked with imposter scams, amounting to $2.95 billion in 2024. Younger people have also reported losing money to fraud more often
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-15 16:16:38
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of disgraced blood-testing company Theranos, has been found guilty on three counts of wire fraud, as well as a count of conspiracy to commit fraud along with her co-founder Sunny Balwani. On November 18th, 2022, she was sentenced to 135 months, or about 11 and a half years, in prison for defrauding 10 victims out of $121 million. She is appealing the ruling. However, a judge has determined that she and Balwani owe the victims of their fraud $452 million. O
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