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Have you seen this video posted by Jim Browning? He spots a deepfake scammer using a single sentence. In this video, he exposes deepfake video scammer with a simple test. Realizing that he is dealing with a scammer he asks the scammer to put 3-fingers in front of his face. The scammer resists, knowing that …
The text arrived on a Tuesday morning from a Wisconsin number I did not recognize. “Hey, Frank, it’s Diana,” it read. “I found your number while organizing my contacts today. I just wanted to send you a message and see how you’ve been lately.” I replied. I knew it was a scam. I was just …
Imagine opening a bank account for a small fee and then turning it over to a complete stranger to move money through it? Well, thats become a big social trend in India as scams soar. Cybercriminals in India are turning ordinary bank accounts into massive pipelines for their stolen cash. And the scale might shock …
Ana Dalila Vega told Secret Service agents she could not meet with them on Thursday or Friday. She said her car was stuck in the shop. She hoped to have it back from the mechanics by the following week. What Vega failed to mention, according to the recently released indictment, was that she had already …
Yurii Nazarenko was 22 years old when he started selling fake passports online for $15 each back in 2020. By the time the FBI caught up with him, his notorious website OnlyFake had produced at least 10,000 fake identification documents and pulled in $1.2 million in cryptocurrency. On February 26, Nazarenko pleaded guilty in a …
The leader of a major bust-out fraud ring has been revealed. And it’s a doozy. Deinier Dominguez was at the center of every deal. As the finance manager at Bomnin Chevrolet and later HGreg Nissan in Miami, he would sit across from buyers, run their credit, and push loan apps to lenders. But on February …
A hacker had zero coding skills. He didn’t know how to compile code. He didn’t even know how to launch an attack. But that didn’t stop him from launching a massive attack against more than 600 corporate firewalls across 55 countries in just 39 days. Once in the systems he hacked, he downloaded all of …
Konstantin Bulatov, the Chief Technology Officer of OCR Studio, has, he says, uncovered a novel use of artificial intelligence that is breaking KYC checks worldwide. He says the new scheme uses AI bots to mass-produce fake “selfie with ID” images and fire them at KYC verification systems by the thousands. The article, which you can …
A cybercriminal recorded a threatening video from his bed while visibly drunk. He read the message word-for-word from his phone screen. The video was sloppy and probably unconvincing, but the script itself sounded great, complete with deadlines, pressure tactics, and professional language that the low-skilled drunk attacker clearly could not have written on his own. …
The advertisement on Telegram offers something unique. For those who want to work independently without models for videos, contact me,” it says, promising Asian and European female models available in English, Russian, and Turkish. But this isn’t a casting call for a commercial. It is a recruitment ad for the pig butchering scam industry, posted …
Portraits of Gandhi hung next to a police station backdrop emblazoned with the Central Bureau of Investigation logo. It was a convincing room designed for video calls. But this wasn’t a government office. It was just one of several mock law enforcement stations inside “My Casino,” a massive scam compound in Cambodia that had become …
Somewhere in Google Land, there’s an alternate universe of fraud and scams that you have never heard of before. It’s a world where every fraud scheme you can think of happens. From Donkey scams to clown-smiling scams to snowman scams they are all there and more. The only problem is, it’s not real because Google’s …
When Moltbook launched on January 28, 2026, it was a really strange idea. That idea was to build a social network where only AI agents could post, and humans could only watch. It was a smash success – within days, that platform had 1.5 million registered AI agents. But security researchers at Wiz found that …
The CFPB has been used and abused by credit washers for so long, and they are not going to take it anymore. This week they announced several sweeping changes designed to prevent credit washing scammers from filing frivolous complaints. The changes will include: 1) forcing consumers to verify their identity before filing a complaint, 2) …
A farmer in Kentucky wired $45,500 to a dealership that didn’t exist. A woman in Pennsylvania lost $45,000 buying a Lexus she found on CARFAX. Law enforcement agencies across the nation are now issuing urgent warnings as more and more victims are sending wire transfers for tractors, classic cars and heavy equipment that they will …
When David Smith was arrested, he had five safes in his Stamford, Connecticut apartment. Inside was $733,000 in cash. Police found that money in January 2023 after they responded to a domestic violence call there. They found more than 100 stolen credit cards, two fake IDs, and several cell phones. He had been robbing DoorDash …
Deepfakes are bad. Very bad. But something else is brewing, and its not looking good. A new study from Inscribe, a document fraud detection company, found that AI-generated fraudulent documents increased nearly 500% between April and December of 2025. The finding confirms what fraud investigators have feared – the technology that powers chatbots, voice clones …
Jim thought the pencil sketch he received from a woman he was dating online was proof that she really loved him. The black-and-white drawing showed the two of them together, with her resting her head on his shoulder. It arrived on his WhatsApp messages along with her holding a sign that said, “I Love You …
When Thai Soldiers broke down the doors of an abandoned building near the Cambodian border last week, they found something surprising – a fully decorated police station with the official seal of Shanghai’s Public Security Bureau and a marble reception desk that had the word “POLICE” plastered on the front. This was not a real …
Alex Rivlin thought he was pretty tech-savvy. The Las Vegas real estate developer had used AI for years and had come to trust it. But when he needed a shuttle number for his Royal Caribbean cruise last August, he did what millions of people do every day: he asked Google’s AI for the customer service …