Category: Scams
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How Romance Scams Start: The Subtle Hooks That Reel You In
One day, you get a text from an unknown number. It doesn’t seem overtly suspicious. Maybe it’s a wrong number. Maybe it’s someone you forgot to save in your contacts. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s the opening move in a long, calculated con. Romance scams don’t start with an elaborate sob story or a desperate…
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AI Scammers Just Pulled Off a $25 Million Heist Using Deepfake Video Calls
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi thriller: A finance worker at a multinational company gets a video call from the chief financial officer. The request? A confidential, high-stakes money transfer. Other colleagues are on the call, nodding along, seemingly in the know. Everything checks out. So, the employee wires over $25 million.
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Fraudsters Posing as WWE’s Alexa Bliss Scams Elderly Man Out of $1 Million
For years, Alfred Mancinelli believed he was in a relationship with WWE star Alexa Bliss. The 79-year-old grandfather, a retired electronic technician from New York, spoke about her with admiration, sent her affectionate messages, and—most devastatingly—wired her nearly $1 million.
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The One Rule That Could Save You From Getting Scammed
At this point, you’d think it would be common knowledge: if you didn’t make the call, don’t hand over your personal or financial information. Yet, every single day, people still get scammed out of their savings because someone on the other end of the line sounded official, urgent, or just plain convincing.
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Fake IRS Texts Are Back — Here’s How to Spot the Scam
If you woke up this morning to a text from the IRS promising you a $1,400 stimulus check, you might want to take a second look. Because, spoiler alert: it’s not from the IRS. It’s from a scammer who wants your personal information.
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How Victims of Online Fraud Get Hit Twice—By Scammers and the IRS
There’s a cruel irony in the aftermath of being scammed. First, someone deceives you into giving up your hard-earned savings. Then, as you’re trying to piece together what remains of your financial life, the government comes knocking. Not to help—but to collect taxes on money you never even really had.
