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Scammers Sent Hoax Bomb Threats Worldwide Demanding Bitcoin
Bomb Threats Ransomware that demands cryptocurrency payments in exchange for releasing infected computers is an old phenomenon. Now that practice has a dark new twist. This week, scammers have started...
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YouTube Channel That Hunts Scammers Falls for Scam, Deletes Itself
Con Plan The hunter becomes the hunted. A YouTube channel called Tech Support Scams, dedicated to trolling and unmasking scammers, fell victim to a tech support scammer — who convinced creator Jim...
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Bitcoin.org, Which Taught Users Not to Get Scammed, Gets Hacked and Replaced...
Giveaway Scam Bitcoin scams are getting more brazen than ever. Bitcoin.org, which is the first Google search result for "bitcoin," got hacked and led visitors to an apparent giveaway scam, CoinDesk...
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Woman Scammed for $8 Million in Crypto, Sues Exchanges
Total Nightmare A young woman in Texas must feel like she's living in a horror movie. The 25-year-old Divya Gadasalli told Bloomberg last week that a man she met on Tinder had stolen $8 million...
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Florida Man Horrified When NFTs He Bought Because Floyd Mayweather Told Him...
KO! After spending $12,000 on Floyd Mayweather-endorsed NFTs that are now worthless, one Florida man is having major buyer's remorse. Tyler, a 35-year-old Miami man, told NBC News that he's now...
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Someone Stole the Ape NFT That Was Supposed to Star in a New TV Show
Hollywood actor Seth Green, who recently launched his own collection of NFTs, has run into a bit of a conundrum. The "Family Guy" star says he fell for a common phishing scam in early May, with a...
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Awesome Woman Destroys "Predatory" Crypto Scams by Shaming Them to Death
Crypto Cop Web3 sure is going great — just ask Molly White, a researcher who's putting the worst of crypto on blast for the whole world to see. In a new interview with the Washington Post, White, an...
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Shockingly, Crypto Project That Promised 5% Returns Per Week Turned Out to Be...
Back in May, the FBI took EminiFX founder Eddy Alexandre into custody after accusing him of fraud. In June, the Justice Department and Commodity Futures Trading Commission accused his cryptocurrency...
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Logan Paul Says His NFT Game Isn't a Scam, He Just Hired Scammers to Build It...
Internet personality Logan Paul isn't just trading blows in the boxing ring. Now he's now scrapping to defend his NFT game CryptoZoo — and we can barely put down the popcorn. YouTuber Stephen...
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Former Biotech CEO Arrested for Implanting Phony Medical Devices in Patients
New bad guy alert: according to an FBI indictment, Florida woman Laura Perryman, the former CEO of a health-tech company called Stimwave, was arrested on Thursday "in connection with a scheme to create...
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Billy McFarland Threatens to Hold Another Fyre Festival
The Roof Is on Fyre It's been a year since Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was let out of prison early after defrauding investors. But now, he's already planning to hold another one — and this...
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Scammer Tricks Man With Face and Voice Swap of His Friend, Cops Say
Skin Walker Cops say a scammer in northern China has managed to cheat a man out of his money, Reuters reports, by masquerading as his friend with the use of AI-powered face-swapping and voice-cloning...
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Man Alarmed to Discover Entire Crypto Site Was Fake, Stealing His Money
All Russian to Me A senior citizen whose restaurant equipment business took a hit from the COVID-19 pandemic invested his entire life savings into cryptocurrency — only to discover that the site he...
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Finally, a Good Use for AI: Wasting Scam Callers' Time Forever
Flipping the Script Artificial intelligence can do a lot of things. It can make hairdresser appointments, on your behalf or even write hustle bro posts for you on LinkedIn. It can even be used over the...
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Crypto Company Says Oops, Its Coin Was Being Used in a Human Trafficking Scam
Deep Dive A crypto company is working with the feds after an investigation revealed that millions of dollars worth of its coins were being used for human trafficking. In a press release, the people...
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Those Scam Texts You’re Getting Are Sent By Victims of Human Trafficking
At this point, the texts have become commonplace — someone asking for a veterinarian, and when you tell them they have the wrong number, the sender apologizes before introducing themselves and trying...
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CEO of $1.3 Billion Crypto Firm Appears to Be Entirely Fake
The CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme appears, much like the promises his firm made, to be completely fake. As The Guardian reports, Steven Reece Lewis was put forth with all kinds of bona fides in 2021...
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Police Called After AI-Generated "Willy Wonka Experience" Is a Sad Mess in...
An event described as a "Willy Wonka Experience" in Scotland descended into chaos after furious parents called the cops, telling organizers they'd been duped. The organizer behind the event, a company...
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Bone-Chilling AI Scam Fakes Your Loved Ones’ Voices to Demand Hostage Ransom
Hostage Situation Scammers have already been using the advent of AI to get smarter and more unhinged — including spoofing voices to demand ransom for loved ones held "hostage." Take this chilling...
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Woman Discovers Trick to Get $27,000 in Free Gas
Gas Her Up A Nebraskan scammer found a gas pump software glitch that allowed her to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of free gas — until the owners caught onto her, that is. As Lincoln's 1011 Now...
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