Published on: 2025-04-20 03:19:47
The FBI warns that scammers impersonating FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) employees offer to "help" fraud victims recover money lost to other scammers. Over the last two years, between December 2023 and February 2025, the FBI said it has received over 100 reports of fraudsters using this tactic. "Complainants report initial contact from the scammers can vary. Some individuals received an email or a phone call, while others were approached via social media or forums," the law enforcem
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 03:58:12
Aitor Diago/Getty Images A sophisticated phishing scam is taking advantage of Google security flaws to convince people that the malicious emails and website are legitimate. In a series of X posts spotted by Android Authority, developer Nick Johnson explained how he was targeted by a phishing attack that exploits flaws in Google's own infrastructure. In his first post, Johnson includes a screenshot of the scam email claiming that Google had been served a subpoena requiring it to produce a copy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 07:16:27
Google blocked 5.1 billion ads and suspended more than 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, according to its 2024 Ads Safety Report released this week. The company says the increasing enforcement activity is caused by the growing threat of AI-generated content, impersonation scams, and abuse of its ad platform. In particular, Google highlighted the use of generative AI tools to create deepfake video impersonations of celebrities and public figures to promote scams, which in the BleepingCo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 13:34:00
Happy tax day to those celebrating a refund. But whether you are or not, today is the last day to get your income taxes filed, and experts say procrastinators need to be careful they don't get scammed in the process. Rushing through this annual chore could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. Ahead of today's deadline, the FBI warned
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 04:00:00
The gold bar scam sounds like a swindle no one could possibly fall for but it happens. The scam involves victims, usually senior citizens, sinking their life savings into gold, silver or other precious metals to safeguard their assets after being convinced by a con artist. If scammers gain your trust, advice like investing in gold -- a precious metal that's typically a sound investment in times of economic uncertainty -- can sound like a good idea. Only once gold bars are given to the scammer f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 03:00:00
If a government agency calls and tells you to pay a time or you'll face jail time, it can be frightening. You might even make a reckless decision out of fear, just to make the problem disappear. Many victims have done the same, turning over their financial information to fraudsters hoping to prey on their distress. The Federal Trade Commission is warning people about imposter scams, in which a fraudster pretends to be from a government agency like the FTC to steal your bank account information
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 19:40:37
Jack Wallen/ZDNET Google Pixel Watch users are getting a new feature that could prevent them from making a life-changing mistake. Last fall, Google introduced a Pixel feature that listens in on your phone calls to protect you from scams. Now that same protection is coming to your wrist. Also: I clicked on four sneaky online scams on purpose - to show you how they work In a post on the Pixel Watch help community, Google announced that Scam Detection is coming to the Pixel Watch, and it is ava
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 03:00:08
Anyone else feel like half the time their phone rings these days it's spam? Sometimes there's an alert before you even pick up, but other times it takes being in the call to know. Well, Google is now making it easier to do the latter, adding in-call scam detection to the Pixel Watch. The new AI-powered feature gives a loud beep at the start of the call and every couple minutes afterward. It will give a notification, beep and vibration in cases where a scam is very likely. You can dismiss the no
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 06:28:41
Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out a new update to the Pixel Watch 2 and Pixel Watch 3. The update brings the Pixel 9-exclusive Scam Detection feature to the smartwatches. When enabled, the feature will alert Pixel Watch users of scam calls on the go. Google is rolling out an out-of-schedule update to the Pixel Watch 2 and Pixel Watch 3, adding Scam Detection support — previously exclusive to the Pixel 9 series. If you own one of these watches and have it paired w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 23:00:00
Time is running out to get your income taxes filed, and experts warn that waiting until the last minute could cost you. Rushing through this annual chore at the last minute could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. Ahead of the annual April 15 deadline, the FBI is warning consumers that criminals are stealing taxpayer identities and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 11:56:16
Spain's police arrested six individuals behind a large-scale cryptocurrency investment scam that used AI tools to generate deepfake ads featuring popular public figures to lure people. The scam was very successful, defrauding 19 million Euros ($20.9M) from 208 victims worldwide. The police operation, codenamed "COINBLACK – WENDMINE," started two years ago following the submission of a victim's complaint. The action led to the arrests of six individuals aged between 34 and 57 in the regions of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 17:39:57
Transcript [transition dinging] [suspenseful music] [Evelyn] I was on Hinge for just a couple of months and matched with one of the profiles. Seemed like a nice guy. It escalated to him asking if I knew about cryptocurrency. He said he ran a studio on the side that did some currency exchanges. And I ended up taking all my savings, even tapping into my IRA, we're talking like $300,000. [whistling] Okay. [laughing] That's a lot of money. [Evelyn] Yeah. It still to this day, a year
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 10:39:00
Facepalm: The FBI is once again warning about an SMS phishing campaign targeting drivers and car owners. The unknown cybercriminals are trying to steal users' data and money, though avoiding the scam seems easy enough: you just have to do nothing and completely ignore the incoming text message. In April 2024, the FBI warned US citizens about an ongoing smishing (or SMS phishing) campaign spreading unsolicited requests to pay for nonexistent road tolls. Now, the bureau's Seattle division is repe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 09:37:00
rob dobi/Getty Images A widespread "smishing scam" is targeting people for their personal information under the guise of unpaid tolls. In recent months, the American public has been hit with waves of texts claiming they owe unpaid tolls or E-ZPass bills. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has logged more than 60,000 reports of the such texts, a spokesperson told NBC News. Also: These phishing attacks are now targeting Mac browsers - how to protect yourself Scammers, purporting to be f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 06:17:45
African law enforcement authorities have arrested 306 suspects as part of 'Operation Red Card,' an INTERPOL-led international crackdown targeting cross-border cybercriminal networks. Between November 2024 and February 2025, authorities seized 1,842 devices allegedly used in mobile banking, investment, and messaging app scams linked to over 5,000 victims. "Ahead of the operation, countries exchanged criminal intelligence on key targets. This intelligence was enriched by INTERPOL with insights i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 22:00:00
It's officially tax season and April 15 is fast approaching. Sure, waiting until the last minute to file is tempting, especially if you owe the government money, but security experts say procrastinators should beware. Rushing last-minute through this annual chore could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. While consumers have long ne
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 18:32:57
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Google is taking down 10,000 fake business listings from Google Maps and suing a network of scammers who set them up, CBS News reports. The company’s lawsuit alleges that a man connected to a broader scam network created fake business profiles on Google Maps and sold them for profit. Google was tipped off by a Texas-based locksmith who said so
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 06:00:00
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: 2025-06-15 13:43:18
The texts first started arriving on Eric Moyer's phone in February. They warned him that if he didn't pay his FastTrak lane tolls by February 21, he could face a fine and lose his license. The Virginia Beach resident did what the majority of people do: ignore them. But there was enough hesitation to at least double-check. "I knew they were a scam immediately; however, I had to verify my intuition, of course; I accessed my E-ZPass account to ensure, plus I knew that I had not utilized a toll ro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 05:55:32
At the beginning of the year, a spate of very similar mails appeared in my spam-box. Although originating from different addresses (and sent to different recipients), they all appeared to be the opener for the same romance scam campaign. Romance fraud is increasingly common and campaigns can extort large sums from victims, who are often quite vulnerable and lonely. If you found this page because you think that you might be being targeted, speak to Crimestoppers or Action Fraud. When stories o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 06:58:00
In brief: With so much of the world now online and more people considering themselves tech-savvy, one might imagine that scammers are struggling to con people out of money. The reality is that Americans lost more to fraud than ever before in 2024 - $12.5 billion. According to the FTC, the $12.5 billion Americans lost in 2024 to scams was up 25% compared to the $10 billion losses a year earlier. Surprisingly, the actual number of people who reported being the victim of a fraud, 2.6 million, did
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 10:12:41
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: 2025-06-22 17:53:23
You’re not the only one getting voicemails about your car’s extended warranty. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), about 2.6 million people submitted reports on falling victim to fraud in 2024, totaling $12.5 billion in losses. That’s a big jump from $2.5 billion lost in 2023, when the FTC received roughly the same number of reports. The most common way that people reported losing money was when they were contacted through social media, though the FTC does not break down whic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 22:53:23
You’re not the only one getting voicemails about your car’s extended warranty. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), about 2.6 million people submitted reports on falling victim to fraud in 2024, totaling $12.5 billion in losses. That’s a big jump from $2.5 billion lost in 2023, when the FTC received roughly the same number of reports. The most common way that people reported losing money was when they were contacted through social media, though the FTC does not break down whic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 21:50:00
It's officially tax season and April 15 is fast approaching. Sure, waiting until the last minute to file is tempting, especially if you owe the government money, but security experts say procrastinators should beware. Rushing last-minute through this annual chore could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. While consumers have long ne
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 03:28:00
ZDNET A new "smishing scam" is targeting people for their personal information under the guise of unpaid tolls. Scammers, purporting to be from E-ZPass or other toll providers (like SunPass, Peach Pass, or EZDriveMA), are sending fraudulent text messages asking for toll payments and urging recipients to click a link to settle their bills. Also: Why I use virtual cards for online purchases – and you should too The messages usually threaten that if the person does not pay their balance, they w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 00:28:00
Cybercriminals have increasingly been using AI to scam their victims, often through text messages and phone calls. Now, Google is using a similar tactic to protect you from those scammers. Also: Did you get an E-ZPass text demanding payment? Don't click - it's a scam On Tuesday, Google announced two AI-powered scam detection features for calls and text messages on Android devices. The goal is to thwart more complex and sophisticated attacks, especially those that may seem harmless at first but
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 12:55:17
Cybercriminals have increasingly been using AI to scam their victims, often through text messages and phone calls. Now, Google is using a similar tactic to protect you from those scammers. Also: Did you get an E-ZPass text demanding payment? Don't click - it's a scam On Tuesday, Google announced two AI-powered scam detection features for calls and text messages on Android devices. The goal is to thwart more complex and sophisticated attacks, especially those that may seem harmless at first but
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 05:27:03
krblokhin/Getty Images A new "smishing scam" is targeting people for their personal information under the guise of unpaid tolls. Scammers, purporting to be from E-ZPass or other toll providers (like SunPass, Peach Pass, or EZDriveMA), are sending fraudulent text messages asking for toll payments and urging recipients to click a link to settle their bills. Also: Why I use virtual cards for online purchases – and you should too The messages usually threaten that if the person does not pay thei
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 13:00:13
It's officially tax season, and April 15 is fast approaching. Sure, waiting until the last minute to file is tempting, especially if you owe the government money, but security experts say procrastinators should beware. Rushing last-minute through this annual chore could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. While consumers have long n
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