Michigan and other states are slapping tougher penalties on gift card scammers. Why you don't want to answer innocuous texts ...

A marketing professor who studies voice and persuasion says a familiar voice lowers our defenses. Here’s the simple fix she ...

Spokeo reports that scams affect all age groups, with younger adults more frequently reporting losses, while older adults ...

Scammers are using multiple methods to exploit people into giving up money or personal information ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

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 ...

In 2024, Americans reported losing $470 million to scams that started with texts, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Text scams are also becoming harder to detect with AI. Knowing what to look ...

On Christmas Eve 2025, a group of Russian police officers on the outskirts of Moscow noticed a young man sitting in a parked car near a police station on the outskirts. Several officers approached the ...

Minnesota is banning crypto ATMs after scammers reportedly used the machines to drain nearly $1 million from residents over the past few years. The machines, also called cryptocurrency kiosks, let ...

US THAT TOP THREE WAYS SCAMMERS MAY COME AFTER YOU. YOU KNOW, THERE’S A WELL-KNOWN SAYING IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS, THE BEST OFFENSE IS A GOOD DEFENSE. WELL, THAT ALSO APPLIES IN THE SCAM WORLD. AND ...

Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims. For the last two years, the Australian ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Business Email Compromise (BEC) is an escalating scam where fraudsters impersonate ...

In the new National Geographic documentary "Super Scam Me," investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller shows how easy it is ...