A satellite image of KK Park, a suspected hub of online scamming operations to the south of Myawaddy, Myanmar, Oct. 2025. Credit: The Diplomat via Google Maps Subscribe for ads-free reading Southeast ...

On September 15, investigators raided three call centers in Pune and Patiala, finding around 220 people at work. According to India’s Enforcement Directorate, the premises were being used to defraud ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Romance scams remain very popular. Every year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the ...

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others. Researchers from four ...

From AI-powered scam detection to data removal and remote access blocking, here are the best tools to help protect your identity, money, and more. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, ...

Journalist Carlos Barragán tells Reema Khrais what drives Nigeria’s “Yahoo Boys” to crime and how they profit from loneliness. Reporter Carlos Barragan spent years getting to know some of these young ...

In 2024, Americans reported losing $470 million to scams that started with texts, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Text scams are also becoming harder to detect with AI. Knowing what to look ...

As AI is adopted across industries, it’s also being taken up by scammers. Around 6% of U.S. adults, or about 15 million people, were scammed out of money last year, a new Gallup and Stop Scams ...

On Christmas Eve 2025, a group of Russian police officers on the outskirts of Moscow noticed a young man sitting in a parked car near a police station on the outskirts. Several officers approached the ...

AI is threatening to replace human workers in some fields, and rightfully, many people are furious that they’re going to be replaced by lines of code. Count scumbag scam artists among them, as a ...

Scammers are getting sneakier, so we have to be smarter. Here’s how. When you Google something, how do you tell which website you should look at first? If you’re like most people, whether you’re ...