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Beware Of 'Pig Butchering' Online Romance Schemes In NY: Attorney General
Daily Voice· 2 days agoAlso referred to as “pig butchering” schemes, the perpetrators of such crimes will work to gain...
Tampa man goes viral for story of scam caller impersonating Hillsborough deputy
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWhat fooled Joey Rosati was something he never expected a scammer to say: Go to the sheriff’s office. The call came while he was at Costco, and by the end of it, he was minutes ...
Beware of scammers pretending to be deputies
Colorado Springs Gazette· 7 days agoIf you get a call from the Teller County Sheriff’s Office asking you to pay money over the phone, you’re almost certainly talking to a scammer. “We’re...
Mastercard's AI system is helping banks keep fraudsters in check — and it could save millions of...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSince 1966, Mastercard has been a provider of payment-card services to the world's biggest banks and...
The most common Facebook Marketplace scams and how to avoid them
Digital Journal· 4 hours agoFacebook Marketplace lets users buy and sell second-hand items, with over a billion shoppers every...
People Magazine is making crime fashionable
Boing Boing· 1 day agoThere is really no story, and it should be of zero public interest to know which stylist a known grifter worked with to put together her pre-court look....
Scammers take advantage of kindness by asking to borrow phones, sending fake cash to apps
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 4 days agoToo many scams, after all, are built around the notion that many of us want to play nice and believe...
How scammers used 'social engineering' to steal over $1 million from an Idaho town of less than...
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That new gift card you just bought could have a $0 balance
NBC 2 Fort Myers· 1 day agoBrian Sullivan’s "small nightmare" – as he calls it – first began six months ago. “Uh, this isn't...
Victim of VIN cloning scam paid $40K for stolen car
WFTV via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBut Maril was hit head-on by a fraudster. The scam is called VIN cloning, and it can cost you cash and your car. Vin cloning is when a scammer steals the...
