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These "SMS blasters" can trick your phone into connecting to them, bombarding anyone in the vicinity with scam texts.

Scammers Are Now Driving Around With Fake Cell Towers That Blast 100,000 Texts Per Hour

By Frank Landymore

An elderly woman in Japan sent thousands of dollars to a trickster who claimed to be an astronaut trapped in space.

Woman Sends Money to “Stranded Astronaut” So He Can “Buy Oxygen”

By Frank Landymore

A journalist decided to go down the rabbit hole when he received a job scam text message — and the places it led him were wild.

What Actually Happens If You Sign Up for One of Those Scammy “Online Jobs” Is Pretty Fascinating

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "Hawk Tuah" girl recently graced the stage at an influencer convention, and it went about as well as her scammy crypto project.

Hawk Tuah Girl Live Event Devolves Into Chaos After Crypto Disaster

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "Hawk Tuah" girl is on a redemption tour in the wake of her disastrous crypto project that lost hundreds of millions in minutes.

Hawk Tuah Girl Says She’s Horrified by What Happened With Her Crypto Launch

By Noor Al-Sibai

The website for WECB, Emerson College's student radio station, was stolen — and quickly transformed into a parasitic AI zombie site.

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Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College’s Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using generative AI, a growing trend of live-video fakes fueled by AI is targeting the young and old alike.

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Lonely Boomers Are Doomed Now That Scammers Are Using AI Filters to Make Themselves Look Like Beautiful Women

Someone Hacked Paul Krugman’s Twitter and Made an Entire Fake Website for the New York Times to Shill a “New York Times Coin” Scam Coin

Someone Hacked Paul Krugman’s Twitter and Made an Entire Fake Website for the New York Times to Shill a “New York Times Coin” Scam Coin

When it comes to scamming online retailers and getting free stuff, wealthy Gen Z and Millennials are way ahead of the game.

Rich Kids Are Using a Clever Trick to Get Stuff From Amazon for Free

By Noor Al-Sibai

A so-called relationship therapist quoted in tons of articles and blogs appears, per a new investigation, to be completely made up.

Someone Invented a Fake Therapist and Got “Her” Quoted in Tons of News Articles

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new audio chatbot that takes the persona of a confused grandmother, fine-tuned to do nothing except make phone scammers angry.

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Phone Provider Deploys “State-of-the-Art AI Granny” to Waste Scammers’ Time

By Ashley Bardhan

A group of digital sleuths have accused YouTuber Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson of getting crypto-rich from several scams.

MrBeast Accused of Massive Crypto Fraud

By Noor Al-Sibai

Criminals claimed to be a property owner and used AI to trick a title company into buying the land they were trying to sell.

Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Figure Out Trick to Steal Houses Using AI

By Frank Landymore

Authorities are reporting an uptick in "sextortion" scams — but you probably don't have to worry about your browser history being leaked.

Here’s What to Do If Hackers Threaten to Release Your Porn History

By Noor Al-Sibai

A violent scammer has been charged with extortion by federal authorities after unmasking himself on the "No Jumper" podcast.

Man Goes on No Jumper, Brags About Various Crimes, Gets Charged by Feds

By Noor Al-Sibai

A scammer attempting to trick Ferrari executives using deepfake tech was thwarted by a stalwart safety measure: the security question.

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Ferrari Exec Suspects Call From CEO Is Deepfaked, Asks Question Only He Would Know the Answer To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré