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...
Scam Alerts & Articles
329 articles on scam awareness, fraud prevention, and consumer protection.
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...
Pushpaganda: The AI-Powered Scam That Hijacked Google Discover and Flooded 240 Million Devices With Fake Arrest Warrants
Security researchers at HUMAN Security have exposed 'Pushpaganda' — an AI-driven scam operation that poisoned Google Discover feeds with fake arrest w...
Two Indian Journalists Win the Pulitzer Prize for Exposing the Digital Arrest Scam — And Why It Matters for the Rest of the World
Indian journalists Anand RK and Suparna Sharma have won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for their graphic exposé 'trAPPed,' which documented how fraudsters us...
Florida AG Recovers Record $5.4 Million From Crypto Romance Scam — Including Money From a Man Who Never Filed a Report
Florida's Cyber Fraud Enforcement Unit has recovered a record $5.4 million in stolen cryptocurrency from a romance-to-investment scam network — the la...
Sri Lanka Arrests 37 Chinese Nationals Running Fraud Call Center in Colombo — The Scam Compound Map Is Expanding
Sri Lanka police arrested 37 Chinese nationals operating a sophisticated online fraud call center in Colombo after the suspects entered the country on...
DOJ Operation Gold Rush: $14.6 Billion Healthcare Fraud — 324 Charged Including 96 Medical Professionals
The DOJ charged 324 defendants — including 96 licensed doctors, nurses, and pharmacists — in the largest coordinated healthcare fraud enforcement acti...