Betesh’s story highlights a troubling trend. Cryptocurrency kiosks, a favorite tool for scammers, were used in scams that led ...

The kiosks allow users to send cash to a digital wallet anywhere in the world. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said fraudsters in 2025 bilked Americans out of more than $333 million with ruses ...

For the last two years, the fundamental unit of generative AI development has been the "completion." You send a text prompt to a model, it sends text back, and the transaction ends. If you want to ...

Scammers are known to follow the headlines. They adapt their messaging and their pitches to what is out there in the news to make it seem more real. Just last month, the Federal Communications ...

President Donald Trump blasted Democrats over their affordability focus in a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, saying their policies brought historic inflation that he is working to bring down and continues ...

A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds. As scam compounds in ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Wednesday announced a new Scam Center Strike Force that aims to go after Chinese organized crime syndicates and scam centers in southeast Asia that ...

The latest update brings Gemini-powered photo edits in Google Messages, smarter notifications and new anti-scam tools for Pixel phones. With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and ...

Google Business Profiles has a form where you can report negative review extortion scams, the form launched a month ago. You can find access to the form in this help document and I believe you need to ...

Meta’s internal documents indicate the company projected $16 billion in revenue from ads for scams and banned goods, creating competition for legitimate advertisers. Meta projected about $16 billion ...

Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them. In a lengthy report, Reuters ...