Scams

A bloke has said he was conned out of £10,000 by a grim scammer posing as his “celebrity crush” adult star.Ben McEvansoneya, 36, said he began receiving messages from a person pretending to be Nicolette Shea, an American adult actress and…

It's revenge time for victims of scammers as a new AI-powered tool by O2 will trick the cunning con artists into thinking they are talking to an old woman. The idea is to keep them on the phone for as long as possible and away from the…

Brits are being warned to stay alert against fraudsters amid a rise in QR code scams.International Fraud Awareness Week is next week and experts have revealed five easy steps people can follow to try and prevent themselves becoming the…

The bizarre hijacking of a simple phrase by hackers has created anxiety about what other search terms could be landmines. Last week, it was revealed by Sophos that Australians typing in, “are Bengal cats legal in Australia” could be given…

The messages, potentially misleading US citizens or stoking hate towards various groups, will have been seen by many times more people than actually made a purchase.Those running the network of Facebook pages in Nigeria may simply believe…

As ZachXBT has pursued that career as a crypto vigilante, he has also kept his mask firmly in place. Online, he appears only as his avatar, a kind of platypus cartoon figure in a detective's trench coat or sometimes a hoodie. To avoid…

This announcement is not the first time a tech company has shared plans to help spot real-time deepfakes. In 2022, Intel debuted its FakeCatcher tool for deepfake detection. The FakeCatcher is designed to analyze changes in a face’s blood…

As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued a comprehensive report this week with a dire warning about the rapid growth…

A few weeks ago, a Google search for “deepfake nudes jennifer aniston” brought up at least seven high-up results that purported to have explicit, AI-generated images of the actress. Now they have vanished.Google product manager Emma Higham…

In June, on the final day of CSX—demo day—the founders were set to deliver a short pitch to a room full of investors. As the setting, a16z had chosen a flashy basement venue on the edge of Soho, normally for live music and clubbing. A…