Smart Home Hijacking: How Criminals Are Using Your Doorbell and Smart Lock Against You
Your smart doorbell, security camera, and connected thermostat were supposed to make your home safer — but a growing wave of criminals has turned thes...
Scam Alerts & Articles
298 articles on scam awareness, fraud prevention, and consumer protection.
Smooshing: The New Name for the SIM Swap Scam Draining Bank Accounts
A scam with a harmless-sounding name — 'smooshing' — is silently hijacking phone numbers and wiping out bank accounts across the country. In 2024 alon...
AI Wrote the Scam That Fooled You. Now It's Being Trained to Stop the Next One.
Artificial intelligence has become the most powerful tool available to scammers — cutting the cost of convincing fraud to near zero and enabling singl...
Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report: $17 Billion Lost to Scams, Impersonation Fraud Up 1,400%, AI Makes Each Attack 4.5x More Profitable
Chainalysis has released its 2026 Crypto Crime Report scam chapter, and the headline figures are stark: cryptocurrency scams generated more than $17 b...
INTERPOL: Global Financial Fraud Hit $442 Billion in 2025 — AI Is Making It 4.5 Times More Profitable
INTERPOL's 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment puts the scale of the problem in stark terms: fraud cost the world an estimated $442 billion ...
A Perfect Storm: How AI Transformed the Economics of the Global Scam Industry
Time Magazine's April 2026 investigation into AI and global fraud describes what researchers are calling a 'perfect storm' — a convergence of cheap AI...
Connecticut Lost $16 Million to AI Scams in 2025 — And the State AG Is Pointing Fingers at Meta
Connecticut residents filed 152 AI-related fraud complaints with the FBI in 2025, reporting $16.1 million in losses — and a new analysis shows the pat...
The FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report Is Out — Americans Lost $20.9 Billion and the Numbers Get Worse Every Year
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its 2025 Annual Report, revealing that Americans filed more than one million cybercrime complai...
Operation Atlantic: UK, US, and Canada Freeze $12 Million and Identify 20,000 Crypto Fraud Victims in Joint Crackdown
A joint operation between the UK's National Crime Agency, the US Secret Service, and Canadian law enforcement has frozen more than $12 million in stol...
DOJ, Treasury, and State Dept Move Simultaneously: 503 Crypto Sites Seized, Cambodian Senator Sanctioned, $10M Burma Reward Issued
In the most coordinated single-day action against Southeast Asian fraud infrastructure to date, the DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force, OFAC, and the Stat...
Imposter Scams Stole $3.5 Billion in 2025 — FTC Says It's the #1 Scam for the Ninth Straight Year
The Federal Trade Commission's May 2026 report confirms that imposter scams remain the most reported fraud category in the United States for the ninth...
Fraud Losses Are Stabilizing — But AI Is Quietly Destroying the Trust That Makes Business Possible
New data from April 2026 reveals a troubling paradox: while aggregate fraud losses appear to be stabilizing in some sectors, AI-driven threats are ero...