Slashdot Items Tagged "scam"

Date / Time Story
Monday April 15, 2024 @08:50PM Alleged Cryptojacking Scheme Consumed $3.5 Million of Stolen Computing To Make Just $1 Million
Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:34PM A 'Law Firm' of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats As an SEO Scam
Thursday March 28, 2024 @08:22PM Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps
Monday December 11, 2023 @02:18AM That Call Center Tech Scammer Could Be a Human Trafficking Victim
Tuesday November 14, 2023 @12:20PM The $2,000 Phones That Let Anyone Make Robocalls
Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:59AM How a 'Refund Fraud' Gang Stole $700,000 From Amazon
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @11:53AM Sysadmin, Spouse Admit To Part in 'Massive' Pirated Avaya Licenses Scam
Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:41PM People Hire Phone Bots To Torture Telemarketers
Friday June 23, 2023 @10:31PM US Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence For YouTube Content ID Scammer
Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:11AM Crypto Catastrophe Strikes Some Atomic Wallet Users, Over $35 Million Thought Stolen
Monday April 03, 2023 @04:53PM Novel Social Engineering Attacks Soar 135% Amid Uptake of Generative AI
Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:30PM FCC Orders Phone Companies To Block Scam Text Messages
Monday February 27, 2023 @10:49AM LinkedIn Scammers Step Up Sophistication of Online Attacks
Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:52PM 'Pig-Butchering' Scam Apps Sneak Into Apple's App Store and Google Play
Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:22PM Keto Luxe Gummies Review - Is Brand worth Buying or Total Scam
Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:59PM Brian Hall Gig Harbor Blog: Get Restoration Scam updates
Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:17AM Debit Card Scam Recovery
Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:28PM Five tips to avoid falling for a 'rug pulling' scam when buying an NFT
Wednesday December 07, 2022 @02:08PM Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:13AM Fraud, Scam Cases Increasing on P2P Payment Service Zelle, Senate Report Finds
Friday September 23, 2022 @06:56PM Microsoft Edge Found Serving Malicious Tech Support Scam Ads
Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:41PM 23-Year-Old 'Crypto King' Has Luxury Cars Seized After $35 Million of Investor Money Vanishes
Friday August 19, 2022 @04:34PM PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal
Friday August 05, 2022 @01:24PM How a Crypto Developer Faked a DeFi Ecosystem
Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:41PM 'Meme Stock' AMTD Digital Just Surpassed Goldman Sachs With a 22,000% Gain
Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:48PM Forsage Crypto Executives Charged With Running $300 Million Ponzi Scheme
Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:43PM Apple and Google Come Under Scrutiny For Scammy Crypto Apps
Tuesday July 26, 2022 @01:34PM Titanium Blockchain CEO Pleads Guilty To $21 Million Crypto Fundraising Scam
Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:00PM Tech YouTubers Are Stepping Up a War Against Indian Scam Call Centers
Friday April 22, 2022 @02:03PM Seized Silk Road Bitcoin To Clear Ross Ulbricht's $183M Debt
Friday February 04, 2022 @05:22PM Traders Are Selling Themselves Their Own NFTs To Drive Up Prices
Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:40PM Social Media Scammers Stole At Least $770 Million In 2021
Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:43PM Cybercriminals Laundered $8.6 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency in 2021
Monday January 24, 2022 @06:51PM 40 People Arrested For Alleged Twitch Money Laundering Scheme
Friday January 21, 2022 @06:04PM Ozzy Osbourne's NFT Project Shared a Scam Link, and Followers Lost Thousands of Dollars
Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:34PM Scammers Put Fake QR Codes On Parking Meters To Intercept Parkers' Payments
Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:31PM Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Jr. Sued for Alleged Crypto Scam
Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:19AM 'Play-to-Earn' and Bullshit Jobs
Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:40PM Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150,000 Stolen From Users In NFT Scam
Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:39PM Binance Says It's Trying To Hunt Down the Squid Game Crypto Token Scammers
Monday November 01, 2021 @05:15PM Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million
Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:34PM An Unprecedented Wave of Online Bank Fraud Is Hitting Britain
Monday October 11, 2021 @11:16AM Facebook To Act on Illegal Sale of Amazon Rainforest
Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:54PM Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed
Monday October 04, 2021 @09:53PM Apple Finally Lets You Report App Store Scams
Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:45PM US Judge Sentences Crypto Hedge Fund Scammer To Over Seven Years In Prison
Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:40PM Theranos Burned Through $2M a Week as Investors Were Given Rosy Projections
Monday August 16, 2021 @03:01PM How International Scam Artists Pulled off an Epic Theft of Covid Benefits
Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:28PM Scammer Service Will Ban Anyone From Instagram For $60
Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:23PM YouTube Channel 'Tech Support Scams' Taken Offline By Tech Support Scam
Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:34PM WallStreetBets Forum Members Targeted in Telegram Cryptocurrency Scam
Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:46AM Apple's $64 Billion-a-Year App Store Isn't Catching the Most Egregious Scams
Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:11PM Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
Monday March 22, 2021 @05:20PM Using AI To 'Clap Back' At Phone Scammers
Monday March 22, 2021 @11:00AM A Security App's Fake Reviews Give Us a Window Into 'App Store Optimization'
Tuesday February 16, 2021 @05:38PM Losses To Romance Scams Reached a Record $304 Million in 2020
Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:06PM Fake Amazon Reviews 'Being Sold in Bulk' Online
Monday February 08, 2021 @04:07PM Developer Exposes Multiple Scam Apps on the App Store, Some Bringing in Millions of Dollars in Revenue
Friday January 29, 2021 @12:00PM Who's Making All Those Scam Calls?
Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:00PM Amazon Still Hasn't Fixed Its Problem With Bait-and-Switch Reviews
Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:54PM Trump's Campaign Website Hacked By Cryptocurrency Scammers
Thursday April 23, 2020 @03:33PM When in Doubt: Hang Up, Look Up, and Call Back
Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:31PM Ripple Sues YouTube Over Cryptocurrency Scam Videos
Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:49PM Cash App Scammers Are Using Coronavirus To Exploit People
Monday March 30, 2020 @12:58PM Hacker Hijacks Microsoft YouTube Accounts To Broadcast Crypto Ponzi Scam
Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:51PM Facebook Sues Namecheap For Letting Scammers Register Lookalike Domains
Friday February 07, 2020 @02:08PM Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam
Tuesday November 12, 2019 @09:48PM Dutch Court Orders Facebook To Ban Celebrity Crypto Scam Ads
Friday November 08, 2019 @12:14PM Ambrosia, the Young Blood Transfusion Startup, Is Quietly Back in Business
Friday September 20, 2019 @09:25PM Two Arrested In $10 Million Tech Support Scam That Preyed On the Elderly
Tuesday September 10, 2019 @09:48PM 281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested In Massive Global Sweep
Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:51PM Justice Department Indicts 80 Individuals, Most in Nigeria, in a Massive Business Email Scam Bust
Friday August 02, 2019 @05:12PM GermanWiper Ransomware Hits Germany Hard, Destroys Files, Asks For Ransom
Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:16PM How Over 25 People Got Scammed Into Working at a Nonexistent Game Company
Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:53PM Investigating Some Subscription Scam iOS Apps
Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:46PM Millions of Business Listings on Google Maps Are Fake -- and Google Profits
Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:35PM FTC Fines Four Operations Responsible For Billions of Illegal Robocalls
Friday March 01, 2019 @04:34PM Facebook Admits 18% of Research Spyware Users Were Teens -- Not Less Than 5% It Claimed Earlier This Year
Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:46PM Former Hacking Team Members Are Now Spying on the Blockchain for Coinbase
Tuesday February 12, 2019 @02:57PM 'You've Won $72 Million and a Mercedes Benz': Phone Scammer Gets 6 Years in Prison After He Made the Mistake of Calling William Webster, Ex-FBI and CIA Director
Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:20PM YouTube Strikes Now Being Used As Scammers' Extortion Tool
Sunday January 06, 2019 @04:56PM Google Drive Has a Serious Spam Problem, But Google Says a Fix is Coming
Thursday December 13, 2018 @06:02PM Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam
Monday December 10, 2018 @09:14PM Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams
Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:46PM Samsung Caught (Again) Using DSLR Photo To Advertise Smartphone Camera
Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:46PM Prison Inmates Catfished $560,000 Out of Military Service Members in Sextortion Scam, NCIS Says
Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:05PM After Microsoft Complaints, Indian Police Arrest Tech Support Scammers At 26 Call Centers
Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:30PM Twitter is Struggling To Contain the Bitcoin Scam Outbreak
Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:24PM Google Chrome Will Soon Warn Users About Web Pages With Unclear Mobile Billing Services
Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:37PM Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever
Tuesday September 25, 2018 @08:07PM Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers
Friday September 14, 2018 @04:47PM Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report
Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:09PM Facebook Now Deletes Posts That Financially Endanger, Trick People
Monday August 06, 2018 @08:02PM Researchers Discover Large Twitter Botnet Pushing Ethereum Scam
Tuesday July 24, 2018 @08:26PM 24 People Have Now Been Sentenced In India-Based Phone-Scam Case
Monday June 11, 2018 @04:16PM FBI Recovers $14M From Bogus Business Account Wire Transfers
Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:16PM Robocallers Win Even if You Don't Answer
Monday May 07, 2018 @09:40AM Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever
Monday May 07, 2018 @08:48AM Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging
Friday May 04, 2018 @02:44PM Google Broke Up a Vietnamese Con Scheme After an Employee Was Scammed Buying a Bluetooth Headset
Thursday April 26, 2018 @02:42PM Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Scam Facebook Users Out of Their Cash
Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:04AM German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million
Friday December 15, 2017 @07:57AM One of Australia's Richest Men Lost $1 Million To Email Scam
Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:21PM Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums To Rank in Search Engines
Tuesday December 05, 2017 @07:44PM Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering
Friday November 10, 2017 @11:17AM Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf
Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:43PM A Canadian University Gave $11 Million To a Scammer
Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:08PM Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam
Monday July 03, 2017 @04:48PM China Suspects Its 'Car-Eating,' Traffic-Straddling Bus Is a Total Scam
Friday June 23, 2017 @04:10PM 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit'
Friday June 23, 2017 @01:43PM Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs Get Shot Down by NASA
Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:23PM FCC Proposes $120 Million Fine On Florida Robocall Scammer
Monday June 12, 2017 @06:16PM Report Reveals In-App Purchase Scams In the App Store
Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:50PM Call Center Operator and His Cousin Steal $645,000 From UK Water Supplier
Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:31PM Gmail, Google Docs Users Hit By Massive Email Phishing Scam
Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:02AM Researchers Find 25,000 Domains Used In Tech Support Scams
Monday April 10, 2017 @06:02PM Thousands of Fake Google Maps Listings Redirect Users To Fraudulent Sites
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:44PM Phony VPN Services Are Cashing In On America's War On Privacy
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:31AM Questions Linger After ISP Blocks TeamViewer Over Fraud Fears
Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:22PM Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers
Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:56PM Sensitive Data Stored On Box.com Accounts Accessible Via Search Queries
Friday November 18, 2016 @01:15AM New Chrome Extension Automatically Negotiates With Comcast For Rate Discounts
Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:43PM Feds Charge 61 People In Indian-Based IRS Phone Scam Case
Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:56AM Revealed: How One Amazon Kindle Scam Made Millions of Dollars
Friday September 09, 2016 @12:53PM Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in US Diesel Emissions Probe
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @07:36PM One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses 40 Million Euros In Online Scam
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @05:22PM Half Of People Click Anything Sent To Them
Monday August 01, 2016 @01:13PM Reported Top Nigerian Email Scammer Arrested
Saturday July 23, 2016 @05:05AM Tinder Scam Promises Account Verification, But Actually Sells Porn
Thursday July 14, 2016 @04:49PM CleanSpace CO Sensor Runs On Freevolt RF Harvesting
Wednesday June 22, 2016 @01:09AM Interview With A Craigslist Scammer
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:05PM Indie Dev TinyBuild Lost $450K To Fraudulent Sales Facilitated By G2A
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @04:30PM 'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Sentenced To 2.5 Years In Prison For Facebook Phishing Scam
Monday June 13, 2016 @10:27AM Walgreens Cuts Ties With Blood-Test Startup Theranos
Monday May 02, 2016 @08:03AM The Future of Shopping: Trapping You in a Club You Didn't Know You Joined
Tuesday April 19, 2016 @12:12PM Popular Dark Web Market Disappears, Users Migrate In Panic
Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:18PM Government's Fake University Trap Results in 21 Visa Fraud Arrests
Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:04AM Chinese Scammers Take Mattel To the Bank, Phishing Them For $3 Million
Tuesday March 29, 2016 @03:51PM US Federal Court: This Year's Scams More Aggressive and Sophisticated Than Years Past
Saturday March 26, 2016 @01:01PM Six Charged For Hacking Lottery Terminals To Spew Only Winning Tickets
Friday March 18, 2016 @01:59AM Dozens of Russian Banks Phished By Crooks Pretending To Be FinCERT
Monday March 14, 2016 @07:50PM Typosquatters Running .om Domain Scam To Push Mac Malware
Monday March 07, 2016 @11:28AM Seagate Hit By Targeted Phishing Attacks Seeking W2 Data
Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:06AM Google Targets Fake "Download" and "Play" Buttons
Saturday January 23, 2016 @03:48PM Symantec Disavows Business Partner Caught Running a Tech Support Scam
Tuesday December 29, 2015 @09:33AM Allegations of Data Manipulation At Theranos
Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:42AM Scammy Tech Support Sites Now Serving Up Ransomware
Saturday November 21, 2015 @12:54AM FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers
Thursday November 19, 2015 @01:37PM Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets
Tuesday October 20, 2015 @09:38AM UK's Largest Online Pharmacy Sold Patients' Personal Data To Fraudsters
Tuesday September 29, 2015 @08:56AM Study: $1.8 Billion In Reshipping Fraud With Stolen Cards Each Year
Tuesday September 15, 2015 @08:52AM UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows
Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:23AM Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men
Thursday August 20, 2015 @12:39PM Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better'
Friday August 14, 2015 @08:38PM Former Employees Accuse Kaspersky Lab of Faking Malware
Tuesday May 05, 2015 @10:19AM Appeals Judge Calls Prenda an "Ingenious Crooked Extortionate Operation"
Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:01AM Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video
Monday April 20, 2015 @12:47AM Facebook Working To Weed Out Fake Likes
Friday February 20, 2015 @05:11AM Sony Offers a "Premium Sound" SD Card For a Premium Price
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:36AM Another Bitcoin Exchange Fraud
Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:01AM $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It
Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:23PM The Strange Story of the First Quantum Art Exhibition In Space
Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:00AM 65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers
Thursday December 04, 2014 @09:34AM Fraudulent Apps Found In Apple's Store
Tuesday November 25, 2014 @12:18PM Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her
Tuesday November 25, 2014 @10:06AM Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal
Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:56PM Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams?
Thursday November 06, 2014 @08:29PM Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features
Friday October 03, 2014 @06:08PM Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots
Thursday August 28, 2014 @08:33PM Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches'
Wednesday August 27, 2014 @05:45PM Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards Show Up In Germany
Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:24PM TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers
Tuesday August 12, 2014 @09:32AM Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording
Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:53AM $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now
Friday June 20, 2014 @06:39PM Make a Date With Fraud
Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:17AM Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls
Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:39PM 1.2% of Apps On Google Play Are Repackaged To Deliver Ads, Collect Info
Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:53AM Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It
Thursday May 23, 2013 @11:05AM A Cold Look at Cold Fusion Claims: Why E-Cat Looks Like a Hoax
Friday April 26, 2013 @12:09PM Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real
Friday April 19, 2013 @07:51PM Android Users Get Scammed With In-App Antivirus Ads
Tuesday April 02, 2013 @12:08PM FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls
Monday March 11, 2013 @12:40AM Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam
Sunday October 21, 2012 @03:20AM Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs
Saturday October 20, 2012 @04:48PM Visa and MasterCard Take Fight To Scammers
Thursday October 04, 2012 @03:19PM Recording of Recently Shut-Down Telemarketers In Action
Monday July 23, 2012 @07:56AM Australians Receive SMS Death Threats
Monday April 23, 2012 @12:18PM US Charges English Twins Over $1.2m 'Stock Robot' Fraud
Saturday October 29, 2011 @04:40PM 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online
Saturday September 24, 2011 @05:37PM Steam Translation Community Slaving Away
Monday August 15, 2011 @04:45AM 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars
Friday May 27, 2011 @06:55PM ATM Repairman Accused of Taking (and Faking) Cash
Saturday January 15, 2011 @12:24PM Stars Remain In Their Usual Places; People Panic
Monday November 15, 2010 @02:41PM Web-Users Fall For Fake Anti-Virus Scams
Tuesday November 09, 2010 @09:01PM Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam
Saturday October 30, 2010 @12:55PM Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet
Tuesday September 14, 2010 @09:13AM Criminals Steal House Thanks To Hacked Email
Thursday August 19, 2010 @04:36PM Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities
Tuesday July 06, 2010 @12:26PM The Unstoppable 'Tech Support' Scam
Wednesday June 16, 2010 @08:22AM 420,000 Scam E-mails Sent Every Hour In UK Alone