Date / Time |
Story |
Friday June 23, 2023 @10:31PM |
US Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence For YouTube Content ID Scammer |
Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:11AM |
Crypto Catastrophe Strikes Some Atomic Wallet Users, Over $35 Million Thought Stolen |
Monday April 03, 2023 @04:53PM |
Novel Social Engineering Attacks Soar 135% Amid Uptake of Generative AI |
Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:30PM |
FCC Orders Phone Companies To Block Scam Text Messages |
Friday September 23, 2022 @06:56PM |
Microsoft Edge Found Serving Malicious Tech Support Scam Ads |
Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:41PM |
23-Year-Old 'Crypto King' Has Luxury Cars Seized After $35 Million of Investor Money Vanishes |
Friday August 19, 2022 @04:34PM |
PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal |
Friday February 04, 2022 @05:22PM |
Traders Are Selling Themselves Their Own NFTs To Drive Up Prices |
Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:40PM |
Social Media Scammers Stole At Least $770 Million In 2021 |
Monday January 24, 2022 @06:51PM |
40 People Arrested For Alleged Twitch Money Laundering Scheme |
Friday January 21, 2022 @06:04PM |
Ozzy Osbourne's NFT Project Shared a Scam Link, and Followers Lost Thousands of Dollars |
Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:34PM |
Scammers Put Fake QR Codes On Parking Meters To Intercept Parkers' Payments |
Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:40PM |
Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150,000 Stolen From Users In NFT Scam |
Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:39PM |
Binance Says It's Trying To Hunt Down the Squid Game Crypto Token Scammers |
Monday November 01, 2021 @05:15PM |
Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million |
Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:34PM |
An Unprecedented Wave of Online Bank Fraud Is Hitting Britain |
Monday October 04, 2021 @09:53PM |
Apple Finally Lets You Report App Store Scams |
Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:45PM |
US Judge Sentences Crypto Hedge Fund Scammer To Over Seven Years In Prison |
Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:28PM |
Scammer Service Will Ban Anyone From Instagram For $60 |
Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:23PM |
YouTube Channel 'Tech Support Scams' Taken Offline By Tech Support Scam |
Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:34PM |
WallStreetBets Forum Members Targeted in Telegram Cryptocurrency Scam |
Monday March 22, 2021 @05:20PM |
Using AI To 'Clap Back' At Phone Scammers |
Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:54PM |
Trump's Campaign Website Hacked By Cryptocurrency Scammers |
Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:31PM |
Ripple Sues YouTube Over Cryptocurrency Scam Videos |
Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:51PM |
Facebook Sues Namecheap For Letting Scammers Register Lookalike Domains |
Tuesday November 12, 2019 @09:48PM |
Dutch Court Orders Facebook To Ban Celebrity Crypto Scam Ads |
Friday September 20, 2019 @09:25PM |
Two Arrested In $10 Million Tech Support Scam That Preyed On the Elderly |
Tuesday September 10, 2019 @09:48PM |
281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested In Massive Global Sweep |
Friday August 02, 2019 @05:12PM |
GermanWiper Ransomware Hits Germany Hard, Destroys Files, Asks For Ransom |
Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:20PM |
YouTube Strikes Now Being Used As Scammers' Extortion Tool |
Thursday December 13, 2018 @06:02PM |
Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam |
Monday December 10, 2018 @09:14PM |
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams |
Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:05PM |
After Microsoft Complaints, Indian Police Arrest Tech Support Scammers At 26 Call Centers |
Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:37PM |
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever |
Tuesday September 25, 2018 @08:07PM |
Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers |
Friday September 14, 2018 @04:47PM |
Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report |
Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:09PM |
Facebook Now Deletes Posts That Financially Endanger, Trick People |
Monday August 06, 2018 @08:02PM |
Researchers Discover Large Twitter Botnet Pushing Ethereum Scam |
Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:26PM |
24 People Have Now Been Sentenced In India-Based Phone-Scam Case |
Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:04AM |
German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million |
Tuesday December 05, 2017 @07:44PM |
Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering |
Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:08PM |
Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam |
Monday July 03, 2017 @04:48PM |
China Suspects Its 'Car-Eating,' Traffic-Straddling Bus Is a Total Scam |
Friday June 23, 2017 @04:10PM |
'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' |
Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:23PM |
FCC Proposes $120 Million Fine On Florida Robocall Scammer |
Monday June 12, 2017 @06:16PM |
Report Reveals In-App Purchase Scams In the App Store |
Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:50PM |
Call Center Operator and His Cousin Steal $645,000 From UK Water Supplier |
Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:31PM |
Gmail, Google Docs Users Hit By Massive Email Phishing Scam |
Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:02AM |
Researchers Find 25,000 Domains Used In Tech Support Scams |
Monday April 10, 2017 @06:02PM |
Thousands of Fake Google Maps Listings Redirect Users To Fraudulent Sites |
Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:22PM |
Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers |
Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:56PM |
Sensitive Data Stored On Box.com Accounts Accessible Via Search Queries |
Friday November 18, 2016 @01:15AM |
New Chrome Extension Automatically Negotiates With Comcast For Rate Discounts |
Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:43PM |
Feds Charge 61 People In Indian-Based IRS Phone Scam Case |
Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:56AM |
Revealed: How One Amazon Kindle Scam Made Millions of Dollars |
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @07:36PM |
One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses 40 Million Euros In Online Scam |
Saturday July 23, 2016 @05:05AM |
Tinder Scam Promises Account Verification, But Actually Sells Porn |
Thursday July 14, 2016 @04:49PM |
CleanSpace CO Sensor Runs On Freevolt RF Harvesting |
Wednesday June 22, 2016 @01:09AM |
Interview With A Craigslist Scammer |
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:05PM |
Indie Dev TinyBuild Lost $450K To Fraudulent Sales Facilitated By G2A |
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @04:30PM |
'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Sentenced To 2.5 Years In Prison For Facebook Phishing Scam |
Monday May 02, 2016 @08:03AM |
The Future of Shopping: Trapping You in a Club You Didn't Know You Joined |
Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:04AM |
Chinese Scammers Take Mattel To the Bank, Phishing Them For $3 Million |
Tuesday March 29, 2016 @03:51PM |
US Federal Court: This Year's Scams More Aggressive and Sophisticated Than Years Past |
Friday March 18, 2016 @01:59AM |
Dozens of Russian Banks Phished By Crooks Pretending To Be FinCERT |
Monday March 14, 2016 @07:50PM |
Typosquatters Running .om Domain Scam To Push Mac Malware |
Monday March 07, 2016 @11:28AM |
Seagate Hit By Targeted Phishing Attacks Seeking W2 Data |
Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:06AM |
Google Targets Fake "Download" and "Play" Buttons |
Saturday January 23, 2016 @03:48PM |
Symantec Disavows Business Partner Caught Running a Tech Support Scam |
Tuesday December 29, 2015 @09:33AM |
Allegations of Data Manipulation At Theranos |
Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:42AM |
Scammy Tech Support Sites Now Serving Up Ransomware |
Saturday November 21, 2015 @12:54AM |
FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers |
Thursday November 19, 2015 @01:37PM |
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets |
Tuesday October 20, 2015 @09:38AM |
UK's Largest Online Pharmacy Sold Patients' Personal Data To Fraudsters |
Tuesday September 29, 2015 @08:56AM |
Study: $1.8 Billion In Reshipping Fraud With Stolen Cards Each Year |
Tuesday September 15, 2015 @08:52AM |
UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows |
Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:23AM |
Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men |
Thursday August 20, 2015 @12:39PM |
Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' |
Friday August 14, 2015 @08:38PM |
Former Employees Accuse Kaspersky Lab of Faking Malware |
Tuesday May 05, 2015 @10:19AM |
Appeals Judge Calls Prenda an "Ingenious Crooked Extortionate Operation" |
Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:01AM |
Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video |
Monday April 20, 2015 @12:47AM |
Facebook Working To Weed Out Fake Likes |
Friday February 20, 2015 @05:11AM |
Sony Offers a "Premium Sound" SD Card For a Premium Price |
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:36AM |
Another Bitcoin Exchange Fraud |
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:01AM |
$10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It |
Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:23PM |
The Strange Story of the First Quantum Art Exhibition In Space |
Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:00AM |
65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers |
Thursday December 04, 2014 @09:34AM |
Fraudulent Apps Found In Apple's Store |
Tuesday November 25, 2014 @12:18PM |
Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her |
Tuesday November 25, 2014 @10:06AM |
Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal |
Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:56PM |
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? |
Thursday November 06, 2014 @08:29PM |
Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features |
Friday October 03, 2014 @06:08PM |
Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots |
Thursday August 28, 2014 @08:33PM |
Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' |
Wednesday August 27, 2014 @05:45PM |
Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards Show Up In Germany |
Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:24PM |
TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers |
Tuesday August 12, 2014 @09:32AM |
Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording |
Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:53AM |
$500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now |
Friday June 20, 2014 @06:39PM |
Make a Date With Fraud |
Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:17AM |
Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls |
Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:39PM |
1.2% of Apps On Google Play Are Repackaged To Deliver Ads, Collect Info |
Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:53AM |
Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It |
Thursday May 23, 2013 @11:05AM |
A Cold Look at Cold Fusion Claims: Why E-Cat Looks Like a Hoax |
Friday April 26, 2013 @12:09PM |
Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real |
Friday April 19, 2013 @07:51PM |
Android Users Get Scammed With In-App Antivirus Ads |
Tuesday April 02, 2013 @12:08PM |
FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls |
Monday March 11, 2013 @12:40AM |
Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam |
Sunday October 21, 2012 @03:20AM |
Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs |
Saturday October 20, 2012 @04:48PM |
Visa and MasterCard Take Fight To Scammers |
Thursday October 04, 2012 @03:19PM |
Recording of Recently Shut-Down Telemarketers In Action |
Monday July 23, 2012 @07:56AM |
Australians Receive SMS Death Threats |
Monday April 23, 2012 @12:18PM |
US Charges English Twins Over $1.2m 'Stock Robot' Fraud |
Saturday October 29, 2011 @04:40PM |
1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online |
Saturday September 24, 2011 @05:37PM |
Steam Translation Community Slaving Away |
Monday August 15, 2011 @04:45AM |
8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars |
Friday May 27, 2011 @06:55PM |
ATM Repairman Accused of Taking (and Faking) Cash |
Saturday January 15, 2011 @12:24PM |
Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic |
Monday November 15, 2010 @02:41PM |
Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams |
Tuesday November 09, 2010 @09:01PM |
Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam |
Saturday October 30, 2010 @12:55PM |
Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet |
Tuesday September 14, 2010 @09:13AM |
Criminals Steal House Thanks To Hacked Email |
Thursday August 19, 2010 @04:36PM |
Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities |
Tuesday July 06, 2010 @12:26PM |
The Unstoppable 'Tech Support' Scam |
Wednesday June 16, 2010 @08:22AM |
420,000 Scam E-mails Sent Every Hour In UK Alone |
Sunday June 13, 2010 @11:19AM |
Australian Buyers Say They Were Told "No iPad Without Accessories" |
Saturday May 08, 2010 @04:00PM |
Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? |
Thursday April 15, 2010 @02:11AM |
Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome |
Wednesday April 07, 2010 @02:44PM |
Print-On-Demand Publisher VDM Infects Amazon |
Sunday March 21, 2010 @07:14AM |
US Law Firms Targeted By Cyberscams |
Sunday March 14, 2010 @01:06PM |
Classmates.com Settles Lawsuit Over Phony Friends |
Friday February 05, 2010 @02:35PM |
GameStop, Other Retailers Subpoenaed Over Credit Card Information Sharing |
Tuesday January 05, 2010 @09:35AM |
Best Buy $39.95 "Optimization" At Best a Waste of Money |
Tuesday December 08, 2009 @07:43PM |
FTC, Google Go After Scammers |
Tuesday December 08, 2009 @12:17PM |
Dev Booted From App Store For Inflated Reviews |
Saturday November 28, 2009 @05:38PM |
Calling Video Professor a Scam |
Wednesday November 25, 2009 @11:27AM |
Bing Cashback Can Cost You Money |
Friday October 23, 2009 @05:18PM |
Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites |
Friday September 18, 2009 @10:07AM |
Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers" |
Tuesday October 21, 2008 @02:41PM |
Company Announces $30,000 Prize For Solving iPhone Game |
Sunday October 12, 2008 @08:29PM |
Huge Credit Fraud Ring Sends Europeans' Data To Pakistan |
Sunday September 28, 2008 @12:24AM |
Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% |
Friday August 31, 2007 @07:54AM |
'Flying Saucers' to Go On Sale Soon |
Thursday July 26, 2007 @08:13AM |
$150 Linux Laptop for the Masses |
Monday November 27, 2006 @08:59AM |
256GB Geometrically Encoded Paper Storage Device |
Thursday November 02, 2006 @04:19PM |
Sony Warns of PS3 Scams |
Monday October 23, 2006 @10:57AM |
ChatterBlocker — Block Distracting Speech at Work |
Monday June 05, 2006 @07:45PM |
Predicting Malware |
Tuesday May 23, 2006 @03:24PM |
Ticketmaster to Start Online Ticket Auction |
Wednesday May 10, 2006 @12:36PM |
Vonage going IPO |
Sunday April 30, 2006 @12:08PM |
Stallman Selling Autographs |
Thursday April 06, 2006 @09:15PM |
When Ads Go Wandering |
Friday March 03, 2006 @06:58AM |
$9 Billion Loophole for Synthetic Fuel |