Indonesia Just Banned Social Media for Under-16s — Here Is Why Scams Made It Happen
Indonesia just became the first Southeast Asian country to ban social media for children under 16 — and online scams targeting minors were a driving f...
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298 articles on scam awareness, fraud prevention, and consumer protection.
Tax Season 2026: The Scam That Kills Your Security Software
Tax Season 2026: The Scam That Kills Your Security Software...
"Your Data Was Breached" — That Message Might Be the Scam Itself
Scammers are now disguising phishing attacks as data breach alerts — the warning message itself may be designed to steal your information....
INTERPOL Launches Operation Shadow Storm — The Most Ambitious Assault on Global Scam Centres Yet
INTERPOL has launched Operation Shadow Storm, a UK-funded international task force that marks a fundamental shift in how the world fights scam compoun...
Apple ID Phishing Nearly Got WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg — And He Recorded the Whole Thing
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg was targeted by an elaborate Apple ID phishing attack that combined MFA fatigue bombing, a real Apple support case...
The March 2026 Global Scam Purge: How Law Enforcement Hit Every Layer of the Cybercrime Stack at Once
In a single week, law enforcement hit the scam industry's servers, proxy networks, and human operations simultaneously. INTERPOL's Synergia III, the S...
SocksEscort Dismantled: Inside the 16-Year Criminal Proxy Network That Infected 369,000 Routers
DOJ and Europol have dismantled SocksEscort, a criminal proxy network that ran for 16 years, infected 369,000 routers across 163 countries, and served...
Inside a Network of 20,000+ Fake Shops: How Scammers Built an E-Commerce Empire to Steal Your Data
Malwarebytes has mapped a sprawling network of 20,000+ fake e-commerce domains running on just 36 IP addresses. With fake shop scams up 790%, here's h...
Inside INTERPOL's Biggest Cyber Takedown of 2026: What 45,000 Malicious IPs Reveal About Modern Scam Infrastructure
INTERPOL's Operation Synergia III dismantled 45,000 malicious servers across 72 countries, arrested 94 suspects, and exposed the industrial scale of g...
She Lost Her Home, Car, and Dog: Tennessee Grandmother Jailed 6 Months After AI Facial Recognition Got It Wrong
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police used AI facial recognition to falsely identify her as a bank fraud suspect. She'd neve...
The Fake 'Google Coin' Scam Uses a Counterfeit Gemini AI Chatbot to Steal Your Crypto — Here's How to Spot It
Scammers built a fake Google Coin investment site complete with an AI chatbot pretending to be Gemini. It promises 7x returns, answers questions in re...
White House Executive Order Declares War on Cybercrime and Scam Networks
President Trump signs sweeping executive order targeting transnational criminal organizations behind cyber scams, ransomware, and fraud schemes that c...