Romania Scams 2026: From Hackerville to Europe's #1 Cybercrime Export Capital
Romania built the world's most technically proficient cybercrime underground from a single mountain town — Râmnicu Vâlcea, nicknamed Hackerville by th...
Scam Alerts & Articles
298 articles on scam awareness, fraud prevention, and consumer protection.
North Korea Stole $575 Million in Crypto in Two Weeks — and Gets In Through Your Zoom Invite
North Korea's Lazarus Group and its sub-units hit two major cryptocurrency platforms in April 2026 — KelpDAO for $290 million and Drift Protocol for $...
Cambodia Shuts 91 Casinos, Deports 13,000 Foreigners, and Passes Life Imprisonment Laws as 'Scambodia' Crackdown Escalates
Cambodia's government shut down 91 casinos operating as cyber scam fronts on April 26, 2026 — the latest escalation in a crackdown that has seen 250+ ...
ShinyHunters Hits ADT and McGraw Hill in One Week: 23 Million Records Stolen via Vishing and Salesforce
On April 27, 2026, two major organizations — home security giant ADT and education publisher McGraw Hill — confirmed data breaches in the same week, c...
FBI Tracks Romance Scam Kingpin From Dubai to a Phuket Resort — $10 Million Stolen, Extradition to the US
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...
Facebook Is America's Biggest Scam Platform: FTC Report Reveals $2.1 Billion Lost to Social Media Fraud in 2025
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 ...
The Homeschool Mom Email: How Link-Building Scams Target Education and Awareness Sites
'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 ...
Ghost Students and FAFSA Fraud: How Identity Thieves Are Stealing Federal Student Aid in 2026
The Department of Education just launched a real-time identity verification system for FAFSA after preventing more than $1 billion in attempted fraud ...
Operation Octopus 2.0: Hyderabad Police Arrest 52 Across Nine States — Including 32 Bank Officials Who Sold Mule Accounts
Hyderabad Police's Operation Octopus 2.0 swept across nine Indian states, arresting 52 suspects in a coordinated cybercrime crackdown. The most striki...
Indonesia Busts the Phishing Kit Superstore: 2,440 Buyers, 34,000 Victims, and the Telegram Bot That Ran It All
Indonesia's National Police Cyber Crime Directorate arrested two suspects running an international marketplace for phishing scripts, credential-theft ...
Fraud Is About to Get Catastrophically Worse: A New Report Projects $100 Billion in Global Losses by 2029
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...
Canada's First SMS Blaster Bust: How a Device in a Car Hijacked Tens of Thousands of Toronto Phones — and Blocked 911
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, ...