Published on: 2025-06-15 08:56:31
The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called “pig butchering” crypto scams that have led to $200 million in losses for Americans victims. On Thursday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the sanctions, saying FUNNULL is “linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI.” The press release said that the $200 million in losses results in an average l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 19:06:00
Scammers gotta be scamming. Getty Images Whether it's scam text messages, fake ads, unsolicited social media messages, or just plain old phishing emails, the methods used by cybercriminals to hook their targets are getting more sophisticated and believable. That's the upshot of a report released Wednesday by Google ahead of its Safety Engineering Center's inaugural Scams Summit. The research pointed to recent Federal Trade Commission data showing that reported fraud losses jumped 25% to $12.5
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 00:06:53
Scammers gotta be scamming. Getty Images Whether it's scam text messages, fake ads, unsolicited social media messages, or just plain old phishing emails, the methods used by cybercriminals to hook their targets are getting more sophisticated and believable. That's the upshot of a report released Wednesday by Google ahead of its Safety Engineering Center's inaugural Scams Summit. The research pointed to recent Federal Trade Commission data showing that reported fraud losses jumped 25% to $12.5
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 07:00:04
It's getting increasingly harder for the average person to avoid online scams. New technologies, including those powered by artificial intelligence, are helping cybercriminals boost both the sophistication and quantity of their scams. And more people are losing more money to them. According to the Federal Trade Commission, American consumers lost a reported $12.5 billion to fraud last year, with much of that fraud starting online, marking a 25% increase from 2023. And experts say scammers aren
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 12:00:00
Digital scammers have never been so successful. Last year Americans lost $16.6 billion to online crimes, with almost 200,000 people reporting scams like phishing and spoofing to the FBI. More than $470 million was stolen in scams that started with a text message last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission. And as the biggest mobile operating system maker in the world, Google has been scrambling to do something, building out tools to warn consumers about potential scams. Ahead of Google
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 12:00:00
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google is rolling out several new features to protect Android users from falling victim to phone call scams. Now, Android will automatically block users from sideloading an app for the first time from a web browser, messaging app, or other service while on a call with an unknown contact. Google will also stop users from giving an app accessibility
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 04:23:23
These days, when Nicole Yelland receives a meeting request from someone she doesn’t already know, she conducts a multistep background check before deciding whether to accept. Yelland, who works in public relations for a Detroit-based nonprofit, says she’ll run the person’s information through Spokeo, a personal data aggregator that she pays a monthly subscription fee to use. If the contact claims to speak Spanish, Yelland says, she will casually test their ability to understand and translate tri
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 04:00:57
Google says the model will allow it to catch scams it hasn't seen before. Google just announced an upgrade to Chrome’s Enhanced Protection feature. On desktop, the browser now uses Gemini Nano to protect users against remote tech support scams. According to Google, the on-device large language model allows Chrome to protect people against scams the company hasn’t seen before. “[Gemini Nano] is perfect for this use because of its ability to distill the varied, complex nature of websites, helpin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 04:00:00
Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome. The tech giant will begin using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model (LLM), on desktop to protect users against online scams. It’s also launching new AI-powered warnings for Chrome on Android to help users be aware of spammy notifications. According to Google, Chrome’s Enhanced Protection mode of Safe Browsing on Chrome offers the highest level of protection, providing twice the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 20:09:05
ZDNET Scammers are always looking to exploit the tools and technologies we use to steal our personal information, money, or both. That's why companies like Google must defend us from hackers, security threats, and other hazards. It is also why we must take responsibility for our own security. In a blog post published Thursday, Google explains how it thwarts online scams across key products and how we can protect ourselves. Google's scam detection system With the largest share of the search e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 11:00:00
Anton Petrus/Getty Images A government agency reaching out can be stressful in the best of times, let alone if they're demanding money under the threat of jail time. A situation like that might cause people to make a rash decision. And many victims have by 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
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-09 16:00:00
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Cryptocurrency is notoriously volatile. Digital asset value can swing wildly in a matter of days or hours, making them both a thrilling and high-risk investment. The latest example is Bitcoin value eclipsing more than $100,000 for the first time in December. That was followed by a sharp decline in price driven by the unknown impact of US tariffs. In addition to market volatility, there's another dangerous side of crypto investing: crypto scams. Investors lost $
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-24 04:16:27
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: 2025-09-07 00:00:00
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: 2025-09-21 14:39:57
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: 2025-10-02 03:17:45
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: 2025-10-19 03:58:00
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: 2025-10-22 14:53:23
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: 2025-10-22 19:53:23
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: 2025-11-13 12:17:27
Threat actors are exploiting major Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) competitions, like IEM Katowice 2025 and PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, to defraud gamers and steal their Steam accounts and cryptocurrency. Although CS2 first launched 13 years ago, it still maintains a massive community of plays and an active professional competition landscape with multi-million rewards. Characteristically, earlier this month, CS2 achieved a new peak player count of over 1.7 million concurrent players on Steam. CS2 streamjack
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 14:09:22
Online scams are as old as the internet, but the rise of crypto has given con artists a valuable new tool — digital coins that can be transferred instantly, without oversight from banks legally obligated to monitor transactions for malfeasance. In 2023, crypto fraud cost American investors an estimated $4.8 billion, according to the F.B.I. The scams are so common that law-enforcement authorities have taken to calling them by a pithy name: Pig butchering, a rough translation of an expression wide
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