314 articles on scam awareness, fraud prevention, and consumer protection.
Americans have lost more than $388 million to scams that end at a cryptocurrency ATM, and 86% of those losses came from victims aged 60 and older. The...
Cambodia says its year-long crackdown has shut more than 250 scam centres and freed some 200,000 workers from 35 countries. But new reporting from NPR...
Israel is one of the world's densest cybersecurity talent pools — and one of its most instructive fraud stories. The country that exported a $5–10 bil...
The FTC has sued the Genesis Tech enterprise — 15 corporations and eight individuals behind fitness apps, PDF editors, an ADHD self-help course, and a...
In a June 18 Public Service Announcement, the FBI warns that criminals are using 'traffic distribution systems' (TDS) — the same routing tech used in ...
Taiwan loses around US$2 billion a year to scams, with weekly losses routinely topping NT$1.7 billion — driven by fake investment ads featuring deepfa...
Cambodia has become the global epicenter of industrial-scale scam compounds — an underground fraud economy estimated as high as $19 billion a year, eq...
Six days after the FBI launched its Most Wanted Fraudsters list, it had its first arrest. Said Abdullahi Ereg, 47, a former Minneapolis grocery owner,...
On June 9, the FBI's Boston Division helped take down 'First VPN' — a so-called bulletproof VPN that since around 2014 ran roughly 32 exit-node server...
South Africa's overall financial-crime losses fell to R2.7 billion in 2024 — but digital banking fraud went the other way, surging 86% to nearly R1.9 ...
On June 3, the DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force announced the results of 'Disruption Week' — a first-of-its-kind operation with Apple, Coinbase, Google,...
Brazil built Pix, arguably the world's best instant-payment system — and organized crime built a fraud economy on top of it. Pix-specific fraud hit an...