10 stories tagged scams, newest first.
614 points by oidar | 623 comments
TechSpot article on a Pennsylvania woman jailed and facing up to six years in prison over a fraudulent Cash App account opened in her name by scammers.
56 points by samclemens | 8 comments
A reported essay in The Dial by Snigdha Poonam investigating AI-assisted scams targeting authors, such as fake book clubs, publishers, and agents.
122 points by ArielSimon | 40 comments
Medium article describing how hackers manipulate AI assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini into directing users to scam sites.
891 points by iamflimflam1 | 384 comments
A blog post on atomic14 asking why Google continues to serve scam or malicious ads despite reports.
1109 points by cdrnsf | 490 comments
Blog post by Kirk McElhearn arguing that ads served by Taboola in Apple News are so often scams that he now assumes all of them are.
480 points by 1659447091 | 370 comments
BBC Eye investigation reporting that children with cancer were scammed out of millions of pounds raised through fundraising for their treatment.
829 points by DavidDodda | 427 comments
A blog post by David Dodda recounting how a fake job interview attempted to get him to run malicious code on his machine.
350 points by timsh | 143 comments
Blog post investigating thousands of GitHub repositories posing as game mods and software cracks that distribute data-stealing malware.
372 points by wglb | 257 comments
Wired article about Grant Smith, who infiltrated the Smishing Triad USPS text scam operation after his wife was duped, and exposed it to US authorities.
417 points by bsdz | 297 comments
CNN news article about a Hong Kong finance worker who paid out $25 million after a video call with scammers using a deepfake of the company's CFO.