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Why You Should Never Let A Stranger Borrow Your Phone
I was at CVS last night and a man came up to me and asked for help. I asked him what kind of help, and he said someone stole his phone outside, and could I use my phone to look up his phone number in the “find my phone” app so he could track it…
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How a Software Engineer Lost $1.6 Million to the Internet’s Cruelest Crypto Scam
Steve Belcher is not the kind of person you would expect to fall for an internet scam. He is 52 years old, a software engineer living in Denver, and technically literate enough to understand the underlying mechanics of blockchain. He isn’t senile, and he isn’t naive. But in November, Belcher watched his entire life savings—$1.6…
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How a Simple Text Message Triggered a $1 Million Scam
It started, as these things now almost always do, with a wrong number. A stranger texted Amos Jiang in August. The message was meant for someone else. That should have been the end of it. Instead, it became the beginning of a months-long digital relationship that would eventually drain more than one million dollars from…
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Pig Butchering Scammers Are Using Every Entry Point Possible
It started with a notification on my phone. Not a text, not a WhatsApp message from a wrong number, but a ping from Nextdoor—the app designed for finding lost cats and complaining about leaf blowers. The message was from a user named “Sloane L.” It was polite, specific, and seemingly harmless.
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“My dad is being pig butchering scammed and it’s breaking the family”
I think my father has been caught in a pig-butchering scam for almost two years now. It has taken over his entire inner world. All he talks about anymore is crypto, “breaking out of the system,” and free-energy conspiracies. He wants to make a lot of money, but only if it comes through some hidden…
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How a “Wrong Number” Text Cost a Widower His Life Savings
Larry Sorenson thought he’d found something close to happiness again. After losing his wife of 35 years to cancer, he spent his days in a quiet Brentwood neighborhood, surrounded by reminders of the life they built together — the tile they chose, the pool they designed, the garden they imagined. He still talks about her…
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