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Earlier this year, a fake astronaut conned an old woman into sending him a ton of money in order to get back home from the ISS — and catfished her to boot.

Space Phishing

New scam just dropped!

Scammer Fools Woman Into Thinking They're an Astronaut Who Needs a Ticket Home

Dating app Filter Off has come up with a genius solution to ward off scammers and scambots: by locking them in a room with a bunch of its own scambots.

Taste of Medicine

They gave scammers a taste of their own medicine.

Genius Dating App Hooks Up Scammers Only With Bots and Other Scammers

Mark D'Amico, one of several New Jersey grifters who conned thousands of good samaritans out of over $400k, has been sentenced to five years in jail.

Things That Happen in New Jersey

The whole thing was entirely made up.

Dirtbag Behind Homeless Man GoFundMe Scam Sentenced to Prison

A cryptocurrency called SQUID, inspired by Netflix's most popular TV show of all time, "Squid Game," rocketed into existence last week and then disappeared.

Wanna Play a Game?

"I guess this will serve as a valuable lesson for me to not just jump into meme coins."

Chaos Ensues as "Squid Game" Crypto Crashes 99.9999 Percent

Musk took to Twitter on Wednesday to make fun of common cryptocurrency scams.

Sc4mm3d

"If I send you 2 Doge, will you promise to send me 1 Doge?"

Elon Musk Mocks Dogecoin Crypto Scams

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

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