The 'Free AI Tool' That Charges You Forever: How Subscription Traps Got a Dangerous Upgrade
Subscription traps have found a powerful new disguise: free AI tools. In 2026, a surge of apps and websites lure consumers with promises of no-cost AI...
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329 articles on scam awareness, fraud prevention, and consumer protection.
Quishing Is Exploding: QR Code Phishing Attacks Jumped 146% in Just 90 Days
Microsoft analyzed 8.3 billion phishing threats in just three months and found QR code phishing — known as quishing — surged 146% in Q1 2026, with att...
The $1 Billion Medicare Scam Hidden Inside a Software Platform: The HealthSplash Conviction
A Florida jury just convicted Brett Blackman, the founder of healthcare software company HealthSplash, for orchestrating a 'cold, calculated' $1 billi...
They Were Already Scammed Once — Then the 'Recovery Experts' Called
After losing money to a scammer, the last thing anyone expects is to be scammed again by someone offering to get the money back. But recovery scams ar...
AI Is Helping Criminals Fake Car Crashes and File False Insurance Claims — Here's How Bad It's Gotten
Criminals no longer need to actually crash their cars to file insurance claims — they just need a smartphone and a generative AI tool. AI-fabricated a...
Inside the DOJ's New National Fraud Enforcement Division — and What It Means for Scam Victims
On April 7, 2026, the Department of Justice stood up an entirely new division with one mandate: hunt down fraud. The National Fraud Enforcement Divisi...
Synthetic Identity Fraud: How Criminals Are Using Your Child's Social Security Number Right Now
Synthetic identity fraud is unlike any scam you've encountered before — there's no immediate victim to notice it, no alert from a stolen credit card, ...
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...
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 ...