Retailers fight back against gift card scams with education, technology
An uphill battle
Hertz gets caught charging multiple Tesla renters for not returning the EVs with a full tank of gas
The company claims it was a "systems error"
Google Search will soon incorporate AI-generated summaries everywhere, but flaws to that plan immediately emerge
"AI Overviews" means to offer detailed search results with context, despite hallucinations and stolen content
FTX customers could get back all the money they lost in the scam
The actual investors, however, may not be the real beneficiaries
Warren Buffett compares AI dangers to nuclear weapons, again, says tech will be great for scammers
"We may wish we'd never seen that genie"
German police hail takedown of Europe's "largest" call center scam network in operation Pandora
Ringleaders traded their headsets for handcuffs
Courts sentence scammer to 6 years for operating a billion-dollar Cisco counterfeiting ring
In a nutshell: A judge has sentenced the CEO of 19 fraudulent tech firms to six years in prison on conspiracy and fraud charges. The Florida man headed up a scam that sold counterfeit Cisco networking equipment. Authorities estimate the criminal enterprise sold more than a billion dollars worth of gear.
Scammers are selling fake RTX 4090 graphics cards without GPU and memory chips
The used graphics card market is a hotbed of scammers
Match CEO's message to romance scam victims: "Things happen in life"
Showing the kind of compassion CEOs are famed for
Bad actors are tempting T-Mobile employees with cash rewards to perform SIM swaps
Numbers said to be sourced from a T-Mobile employee directory
Google sues alleged crypto scammers who uploaded fraudulent apps to the Play Store
An unprecedent move by Google
Counterfeiters caught in multimillion-dollar iPhone repair scheme
They face 20 years behind bards
AMD Ryzen 7 5700 Review: A Scammy CPU?
In testing the Ryzen 7 5700, we feel we've stumbled upon a product that is borderline scammy, or is at best anti-consumer. But maybe we're overreacting, so let's take a look and see what you think.
Over 170 million fake reviews were removed from Maps and Search thanks to Google's new algorithm
Google launched a lawsuit against a scammer last year
There's a possibility FTX customers get repaid in full after all
The soaring price of Bitcoin has fattened FTX's bottom line considerably
FCC aims to outlaw AI voices in robocalls after fake Biden message
"AI-generated voice cloning and images are already sowing confusion"
Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 with an RTX 4080 GPU and fried components
The mash-up card was part of a pallet deal
Global police effort sees 3,500 arrests, $300 million seized in online crime crackdown
The cybercrimes range from NFT rug-pulls to romance scams and deepfakes
Be careful who's selling you that high-end AMD Radeon GPU, especially on Amazon
Board partner Sapphire reports fraudulent RX 7000 listings
Microsoft and Amazon tip India's law enforcement on tech support call center fraudsters
The tech support scammers convinced customers to pay for PC "fixes"
Two Florida scammers stole more than $1 million from Uber Eats
A well-oiled scheme based on fake accounts, stolen information and prepaid cards
Shady dirt-cheap $3 SATA SSD benchmarks prove its worth exactly $2.99
Frustrated tester calls it a "piece of turd" not worth a flush
Social media scammers have stolen at least $650 million from victims this year
More than half came from investment scams