A man posed as a San Francisco 49ers player on dating apps and stole about $1.3 million from 26 women. The same romance scam script appears 1,224 times in our database. Here is how it works and how to spot it.
Polish police backed by the FBI and HSI arrested four people accused of running a SIM-swap gang that drained crypto accounts. How the scheme worked and how to protect yourself.
👉 What You Need to Know… How Phone Spoofing Works: Scammers’ Tricks to Impersonate and Deceive Scammers, known as “spoofers,” use sophisticated techniques to hide their phone numbers. They often...
Disclaimer: This article targets the American audience. Regulations and recommendations may differ in other countries. 👉 Key Takeaways Cortexi: A Questionable Miracle Solution Despite being advertised as a natural remedy...
👉 The key points… Beware of Fraudulent Netflix-like Text message SMS scams are on the rise, and those using Netflix are among the most common. Their modus operandi? Making you...
👉 Key Takeaways… A Successful Marketing Approach Consumer complaints about so-called miracle energy-saving devices are nothing new. Testimonials have been pouring in for years. The pattern is generally always the...
👉 The Essentials in 3 Points… Text messages that look alike Fraudulent text messages generally all have the same goal: to steal your personal information and/or your money. An Unknown...
Investment scams aren’t new. They date back to the days of traveling salesmen, and cold-calling brokers took them to new heights a few decades ago. The internet opened up a...
Setting up automatic payments for services through our credit or debit cards is a very common practice today, especially when it comes to online services such as Amazon Prime or...
Scammers are everywhere, and the scams they’re perpetrating are becoming more insidious and deceptive every. They penetrate nearly every aspect of our daily lives through social media and the smart...
You are probably familiar with the feeling of dread that comes with seeing a computer error message or experiencing a technical issue with your device. And in today’s age, it’s...
Today, when trying to match the word “scammer” to a face, the average internet user (myself included) thinks of some Nigerian scam artist hiding in the back of his cyber-café…...
Victor Lustig is a con man from the beginning of the twentieth century known for the case that inspired the book “The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower” and a short film by...
She’s called “Josie Model” or “Josie Ann Miller”. These are the most reliable pseudonyms we have on her because her photos are probably the ones that “love-scammers” prefer, even if they...
Internet. A place where scams swarm. But what should you do when you’re the victim of a scam, or discover a fraud? One of the first things should be is...
