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The FTC says scammers are now deepfaking government agents to hit fraud victims twice
Losing money to a scam is supposed to be the worst of it, but federal regulators are warning that for a growing number of ...
Scammer Payback on MSN
Watch what happens after a 76-year-old woman withdraws $20,000 for scammers
A 76-year-old woman withdrew $20,000 after being manipulated by professional scammers. What followed was a frantic race ...
Scammers operate everywhere—job recruitment sites, across social media, on dating apps and in your text messages. Arguably the most hurtful and damaging of these scams is romance scams, where the ...
An elderly Michigan woman walked into a coin shop ready to put $385,000 into gold after scammers convinced her that the money ...
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.
Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, a crime wave projected to get worse as the U.S. population ages and technology like AI makes it ...
The scammers are contacting victims by phone, text or email demanding immediate payment for phony warrants, jury duty summons or civil fines.
WHTM Harrisburg on MSN
York County Sheriff’s Office warns others about scammers using deputies’ names
YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — The York County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents after getting an influx of calls about scammers. The office said it has received more than 13 phone calls between ...
Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new tool, Scam Alert, to thwart con artists on WhatsApp. The optional feature, currently in beta testing, will run an on-device machine learning ...
"I don't use Facebook. I don't even have an email. How could scammers possibly know anything about me?" That's the question I hear from people over 60 all the time. If you assume that by staying off ...
Finance professionals, doctors and lawyers recount being taken in by tricks like the jury-duty swindle that stole $25,000 from a Florida woman.
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