ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — It happens so often that scammers call and pull off some elaborate scheme that preys on the most vulnerable people. There is a YouTuber who is turning the tables. ...

A satellite image of KK Park, a suspected hub of online scamming operations to the south of Myawaddy, Myanmar, Oct. 2025. Credit: The Diplomat via Google Maps Southeast Asia’s online scam empire is ...

Every year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency tasked with protecting the public from deceptive or unfair business practices, receives millions of fraud reports from consumers. To help ...

Your phone rings. It's your son's voice. Panicked. He says he's been in a car accident. He hurt someone. He's about to be arrested. He needs $15,000 wired before the end of the day, and please, don't ...

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Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others. Researchers from four ...

From AI-powered scam detection to data removal and remote access blocking, here are the best tools to help protect your identity, money, and more. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, ...

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Everyone who uses email has at some point been sent a malicious phishing email attempting to scam them out of money. Some have even engaged with an attacker unwittingly, perhaps falling prey to social ...

A scam text showed up today that would make many parents stop cold. The message said: “Hi mom, text me here on my work phone. Dropped my actual phone in the sink earlier and it’s completely ...

AI is threatening to replace human workers in some fields, and rightfully, many people are furious that they’re going to be replaced by lines of code. Count scumbag scam artists among them, as a ...

The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, ...