Scammer

While artificial intelligence becoming sentient and taking over the world is an increasingly valid concern, the technology is already incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands. Over the weekend, the South China Morning Post (via Ars Technica) reported on a thief who drained a multinational company’s Hong Kong branch of HK$200 million ($25.6 million USD) by using clever deepfake technology to stage a fake video conference call.According to the report, an employee in the company’s finance department received a…

In a span of just three weeks in the summer of 2022, Alice Lin was swindled out of her life savings in an internet scam that began on a Chinese-language chat app. She lost more than $720,000 and sank so low that the 80-year-old two-time widow and mother of four considered taking her own life.In the same year, Artemis Yaffe was targeted by a scammer posing as an IRS agent, losing her $1.8-million nest egg and — eventually — her home. It took less than two months for her life to be upended, sending the 77-year-old widow…

Sadly, there’s a wide range of scams people have to watch out for. From fake love interests to once-in-a-lifetime business opportunities, these con artists get really creative to swindle money out of people. In fact, it was reported that $8.8 billion was lost to scams in 2022.Redditor Titahn contributed to this figure when a stranger approached him asking for 10€ for gas to visit his dying mother. Despite sensing dishonesty, he decided to lend the cash and pawned it for his phone number. Not long after, the stranger…

In the last few months, India has seen a surge in online scams and other forms of related cyber crimes. In a recent incident, a Mumbai man lost Rs. 2.65 lakh after he fell for an online scam while ordering sweets, as per a report. Last year, actress Shubhangi Atre also fell victim to a similar scam and lost Rs. 2.24 lakh. These incidents highlight the fact that nobody is safe from these cyber criminals and something as innocent as buying sweets can also trap you into losing your life's savings. At a time like this, a new…

On Friday, a federal court to five years in prison for his involvement in the . Last month, the 24-year-old, known as PlugwalkJoe online, to a host of cyber crimes, including carrying out a SIM-swapping attack that targeted a TikTok account with millions of followers. The 2020 Twitter hack saw O’Conner and his co-perpetrators obtain access to the company’s backend and subsequently the accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and more than 100 other high-profile users. O’Conner netted $794,000 in the crypto scam…

Millions of people are becoming victims of WhatsApp scams…

The cryptocurrency industry is never short of buzz, and today is just another day. Kraken creatively and successfully set a trap for a scammer, but not quite in the way one would think. Meanwhile, altcoins Ripple (XRP) and Avalanche (AVAX) are recovering after a prolonged decline. Elsewhere on the market, the up-and-coming Ape Brigade (APES) is looking to enter the market, and they just might stir it up. Kraken Shows Scammers a Mirror Kraken, the US-based CEX, has come up with a one-of-a-kind way to identify nefarious…

Earlier in January 2023, we had revealed how scammers are sending messages on WhatsApp and other social media platforms, asking people to 'like' videos on YouTube and get paid for it. And now something similar has happened with a Twitter user. However, her savage reply to the fraudster has left people in splits!  Notably, WhatsApp has become a very big medium for scammers to try and steal money from unsuspecting people in recent times. Also, at a time when joblessness is high, scammers have started taking advantage of…

A U.S. Air Force veteran was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Wednesday for carrying out a fraudulent GoFundMe scheme claiming he was raising money to fund former President Donald Trump’s border wall. Brian Kolfage, who previously worked as an associate to Trump’s former advisor and White House strategist Steve Bannon, set up a “We The People BUILT the Wall!” GoFundMe page, claiming that all donations would go to funding the wall on the U.S./Mexico border.Trump Went Through Twitter WithdrawalKolfage,who…

After unlisted content began appearing on the account following the breach, LinusTechTips has now been scrubbed from YouTube completely.Screenshot: GizmodoFamed YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked and destroyed. The gadget review channel with over 15 million subscribers was spewing Elon Musk-themed crypto scams earlier this morning, but now appears to be completely pulled from the platform.As Dextero reports, Linus Tech Tips was officially hacked as of this morning, with the new puppet master renaming the…