Scammers using AI-generated ads on social media, making it harder to spot fakes

Experts warn scammers are increasingly using AI to generate ads on social media, which is making it harder to spot a fake.

Craigslist car report scam targets vehicle sellers

Fake buyers demand specific vehicle reports from unknown sites to steal credit card information from car sellers, but warning ...
ConsumerAffairs

5 Black Friday scams that can ruin any 'deal' (and how to avoid them)

Black Friday brings a spike in scams: ghost deal sites, fake delivery texts, bogus “store closing” ads, counterfeit ...

RestoPros of South Kansas City Expands Damage Restoration Services to Better Serve Customers

OVERLAND PARK, KS – November 06, 2025 – PRESSADVANTAGE – RestoPros of South Kansas City has expanded its comprehensive damage ...
The Hill

SNAP scams incoming, expert warns. Here’s what to watch out for

(NEXSTAR) – The fast-approaching SNAP benefit freeze could leave millions of Americans vulnerable to scammers, officials and experts are warning. More than 40 million people, many of them children, ...
Foreign Policy

China Can’t Keep Its Hands Clean in Myanmar’s Scam Cities

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The Hill

Congress finally has a blueprint to stop China’s online scams

Last year, Americans lost over $10 billion dollars to sophisticated online scamming operations run out of Southeast Asia. Last week, the Department of Justice seized $15 billion in Bitcoin from the ...
The New York Times

A Partial List of Sites and Apps Affected by Outages

Major services were having issues, including WhatsApp, the official website for the British government and the payment app Venmo. By Joel Petterson Hundreds of websites and apps were reporting outages ...
Grist

The strategy behind Trump’s climate catchphrase, the ‘Green New Scam’

The phrase that has come to define the Trump administration’s message on climate change was born in Durham, New Hampshire, on December 16, 2023. Flanked by flannel-clad supporters holding “Live free ...
Detroit Free Press

Crooks claim ATM or debit card is compromised then engage in elaborate scheme to steal it

Debit cards ranked as the top payment method for both attempted fraud and actual dollar losses in 2024. Consumers increasingly must realize that con artists are often impersonating banks, government ...
Democrat and Chronicle

The most common scams targeting seniors in NY: See the list

Thousands of older adults in Western New York are the target of deceptive scammers attempting to wiggle their way into their bank accounts. A national poll of elders found three in four adults ages 50 ...
Bleeping Computer

U.S. sanctions cyber scammers who stole billions from Americans

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned several large networks of cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia, which stole over $10 billion from Americans last year. These operations, mainly ...