Published 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: 2025-05-08 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: 2025-05-22 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: 2025-06-02 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: 2025-06-19 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: 2025-06-22 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: 2025-07-12 18:17:27
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: 2025-07-11 23:09:22
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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