Romance scammers often present themselves in an excellent light as they try to build trust with you. They’ll tell you they’re searching for the right partner but need money for flights, visas, etc. Unfortunately, the success rate of romance scams is pretty high. Scammers will talk to yo...
These marketplaces are supposed to provide online customers with trusted vendors, not allow scammers to run rampant. Shopify and Facebook are both just as liable for allowing this BS to happen.I will be fighting to get my dad's money back. And if it means taking the fight to t...
Account takeover is slightly different than the other types of scams because instead of creating a fake Facebook account in the first place, it involves scammers taking over a genuine account. Scammers can send suspicious links to you through DMs and as soon as you click on them, you could...
In a September press release, the police stated that at least S$107,000 had been scammed between January and August of this year. In these cases, scammers imitating their Facebook and Instagram friends or followers contacted the victims. The scammers ask victims for their phone numbers and p...
Facebook users are reporting that they are getting locked out of their own accounts for reporting scammers, imposters, and fake accounts. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto If you received a suspicious Facebook message from your dead granny looking to tell you about a great new financial ...
Scammers are using AI-generated voice clones to trick Illinois residents to cheat them out of a lot of money.
Fraudsters target major platforms to commit scams: Social media, technology platforms, and telecoms are frequently exploited by scammers, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of pounds for UK consumers. Over half of scams involve Meta platforms: In 2023,Metaplat...
been hired for a promising new position when instead they have given personal information via a fake application or money to scammers for “training” or “equipment.” In another variation, a person may be “overpaid” with a fake check and asked to transfer the difference to another account...
– a surprising revelation, given that the younger generation is, on the whole, more digitally savvy. This, however, appears to be the cause of their overconfidence and false sense of security – these groups are the most likely to lose money after continuing an interaction with scammers. ...
It appears that Shopify is just a scammer platform hosting and enabling other scammers. I order my product and never heard from them. I was direct to check the progress of my order on Shopify, but just had garbage answer saying it was shipped and asking me to say it was already ...