254 articles on scam awareness, fraud prevention, and consumer protection.
On April 27, 2026, two major organizations — home security giant ADT and education publisher McGraw Hill — confirmed data breaches in the same week, c...
Thai police arrested a 33-year-old Indonesian man at a luxury resort in Phuket on April 26, 2026, following an FBI tip that he had flown in from Dubai...
The FTC released new data on April 27, 2026 showing Americans lost $2.1 billion to scams that started on social media in 2025 — an eightfold increase ...
'Robin, one of my students, came across an article…' If you run a website with any meaningful traffic, you've probably gotten this email. There is no ...
The Department of Education just launched a real-time identity verification system for FAFSA after preventing more than $1 billion in attempted fraud ...
Hyderabad Police's Operation Octopus 2.0 swept across nine Indian states, arresting 52 suspects in a coordinated cybercrime crackdown. The most striki...
Indonesia's National Police Cyber Crime Directorate arrested two suspects running an international marketplace for phishing scripts, credential-theft ...
A major industry report released April 24, 2026 projects that global e-commerce and digital payments fraud will more than double — from $40 billion in...
In a Canadian first, Toronto Police arrested three men on April 23, 2026 for operating an SMS blaster — a device that mimics a legitimate cell tower, ...
France's national identity document agency — ANTS (Agence Nationale des Titres Sécurisés) — confirmed on April 22, 2026 that a threat actor breached i...
On April 23, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice charged two Chinese nationals who managed Shunda Park — a forced-labor scam compound in Myanmar wher...
The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report includes a chilling new category: AI-enabled fraud. In just one year, over 22,000 Americans reported AI-powered s...