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An alleged law firm has been caught sending out link-back requests — and it appears that the "firm" and its "lawyers" do not exist.

Artificial Intelligence

Someone’s Sending Out Legal Threats From Fake, AI-Generated “Lawyers”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A mad genius has clicked through those "my pussy in bio" links spamming X-formerly-Twitter — and found something as dark as it is mundane.

Investigation Finds What Really Happens If You Actually Click Those ░P░U░S░S░Y░I░N░B░I░O░ Links

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Nebraskan scammer found a gas pump software glitch that allowed her to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of free gas.

Woman Discovers Trick to Get $27,000 in Free Gas

By Noor Al-Sibai

With the advent of AI, scammers have gotten smarter, and are now spoofing voices to demand ransom for loved ones held "hostage."

Artificial Intelligence

Bone-Chilling AI Scam Fakes Your Loved Ones’ Voices to Demand Hostage Ransom

By Noor Al-Sibai

A "Willy Wonka Experience" in Glasgow descended into chaos after furious parents called the cops, telling organizers they had been duped.

Artificial Intelligence

Police Called After AI-Generated “Willy Wonka Experience” Is a Sad Mess in Real Life

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme appears, much like the promises his firm made to investors, to be completely fake.

CEO of $1.3 Billion Crypto Firm Appears to Be Entirely Fake

By Noor Al-Sibai

Many of those "wrong number" scam texts are being sent by people human trafficked in horrific work camps in Southeast Asia.

Those Scam Texts You’re Getting Are Sent By Victims of Human Trafficking

By Noor Al-Sibai

A crypto company is working with the feds after an investigation revealed that millions of dollars worth of its coins were being used for human trafficking.

Crypto Company Says Oops, Its Coin Was Being Used in a Human Trafficking Scam

By Noor Al-Sibai

Consultant Roger Anderson has created a voice, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4, that can waste and frustrate telemarketers and scammers.

Artificial Intelligence

Finally, a Good Use for AI: Wasting Scam Callers’ Time Forever

By Victor Tangermann

A senior invested his entire life savings into crypto — only to discover that the site he used was completely fake.

Man Alarmed to Discover Entire Crypto Site Was Fake, Stealing His Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

A scammer in China has managed to cheat a man out of his money by cloning his friend's voice and face with the use of AI-powered apps.

Artificial Intelligence

Scammer Tricks Man With Face and Voice Swap of His Friend, Cops Say

By Victor Tangermann

It's been a year since Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was let out of prison early — and he's already planning another one.

Billy McFarland Threatens to Hold Another Fyre Festival

By Noor Al-Sibai

The FBI is alleging that Perryman knowingly created and sold "dummy," plastic medical implants to medical systems and chronic pain patients for $16k each.

Former Biotech CEO Arrested for Implanting Phony Medical Devices in Patients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Logan Paul Says His NFT Game Isn’t a Scam, He Just Hired Scammers to Build It and They Did Some Scamming

Logan Paul Says His NFT Game Isn’t a Scam, He Just Hired Scammers to Build It and They Did Some Scamming

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new report, cryptocurrency company EminiFX collected a quarter of a billion dollars from investors before being exposed as a Ponzi scheme.

Shockingly, Crypto Project That Promised 5% Returns Per Week Turned Out to Be a Ponzi Scheme

By Victor Tangermann

Web3 sure is going great — just ask Molly White, the researcher whose crypto scam-busting skills have felled con artists left and right.

Awesome Woman Destroys “Predatory” Crypto Scams by Shaming Them to Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hollywood actor Seth Green fell for a common phishing scam, with hacker getting away with one of his NFTs, which was meant to star in his upcoming show.

Someone Stole the Ape NFT That Was Supposed to Star in a New TV Show

By Victor Tangermann

After spending $12,000 on Floyd Mayweather-endorsed NFTs that are now worthless, one Florida man is having major buyer's remorse.

Florida Man Horrified When NFTs He Bought Because Floyd Mayweather Told Him to Crater in Value

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Texas woman told Bloomberg her Tinder boyfriend scammed $8 million of her inheritence in crypto. She's suing him and the exchanges.

Woman Scammed for $8 Million in Crypto, Sues Exchanges

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bitcoin.org, which is the first Google search result for "bitcoin," got hacked and led visitors to an apparent giveaway scam, CoinDesk reports.

Bitcoin.org, Which Taught Users Not to Get Scammed, Gets Hacked and Replaced With Scam

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTube channel called Tech Support Scams dedicated to rooting out scammers and unmasking them, fell victim to a tech support scammer.

YouTube Channel That Hunts Scammers Falls for Scam, Deletes Itself

By Victor Tangermann

This week, scammers have started emailing hoax bomb threats to schools and hospitals, demanding bitcoin payments in exchange for not setting off explosives.

Scammers Sent Hoax Bomb Threats Worldwide Demanding Bitcoin

By Victor Tangermann

Rise of the Robocallers: Here’s How We’ll Avoid a Future of Scammers

Rise of the Robocallers: Here’s How We’ll Avoid a Future of Scammers

By Victor Tangermann