As many as there are stars in the sky

from here and here

 Billions and billions of scam calls served by a single telecom company? I hope they have to pay an astronomical fine, but it makes me wonder what the mind-boggling total across all telecom companies is.

No stolen info for you

from here and here

I know it's basically a game of whack-a-mole, but every whack makes more work for the bad guys and frankly they deserve it.

The high cost of getting schooled

from here and here

I hope this school administrator learned her lesson and will listen to warnings in the future.

Maybe the real friends were the scammers we met along the way

found on Something To Laugh At

I'd just as soon not hear from anyone if this was the case.

Tell me something only the real you would know

from here and here

Well this is disturbing. You increasingly can't trust phone calls from loved ones in financial distress because scammers are mimicking their voices with AI. Imagine having to authenticate your child or grandchild on the worst day of their life.

Scam Messaging Service

from here and here

Opting out of having a cell phone isn't easy. There are lots of things I can't do, lots of sites I can't use, lots of accounts I can't restore, etc. But you know what? there are more ways to get scammed over SMS than there are people I want to talk to, so no thank you. I wonder if the same thought has crossed the mind of this person who recently got scammed by a phony Canada Post text.

Turning a $44B social media site into FakeAV

from here and here

Fraudulently reporting sites as malware seems like the kind of scam that should be obviously illegal. I'm not sure how the consequences of his actions haven't caught up to him yet.

Ground Control to Scammer Tom

from here and here

Believe it or not, this was a real scam with a victim and everything. I'm not going to judge or blame the victim, but the scammer certainly found a creative way to take advantage of people.

Kitboga : I Made an AI Bot to STEAL from SCAMMERS (and it's working)

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It's one thing to sit there on the phone trying to ruin a scammer's day all by yourself, but what if you could train a computer to do it for you? Well, it would certainly free up your time and you could ruin multiple scammers' days at once. I'm definitely in favour of scaling up scammers' hardship through automation and I hope this gets even better.

Losing $750k to a fake Elon Musk

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I didn't realize scammers were using deep faked videos now. In fact, I've heard it said that scammers don't need to use deep fake because cheap fake still works surprisingly well. So I guess this should be a wake-up call - just because scammers don't need to do something, doesn't mean they won't do it.

Beware the knights of Scamalot

from here and here

The Queen is dead and that's just the kind of thing criminals love to latch on to in order to trick people into clicking on things. Don't fall for it. If you really want details, do a search and get them from reputable news sources that hopefully won't be serving any malware.

I don't know what the scammers expected

from here and here

I'm not sure how much time and energy the scammers wasted by hacking AV-Test.org's twitter account, but I am sure it was wasted time and energy. You won't find suckers that way. 

Senior loses $60,000 in computer virus banking fraud scam

Watch on YouTube

It's one thing to tell people to be careful online, but how can they really know what to look out for? That's why examples are important, and as bad as this is for Katharina Muir, at least her experience can serve as a warning to others and give them a more concrete example to look out for.

It's a good thing politicians would never try to spam or scam us

from here and here

Leave it to the "Don't be evil" company to continue to find new ways to be evil. And yes, I know that politicians would in fact try to spam and scam us. The former president and grifter-in-chief already has scammed people by email under the ruse of fighting the election results.

As of writing, there's still time to voice your concerns to the FEC (by email it seems - ao@fec.gov)

And that's your first lesson

found on Izismile

Don't expect a refund since you learned the material even without a physical book in your hands.

Rug Pull rug

Product Page

I was trying to think of a use case for this rug celebrating cryptocurrency scams and then it hit me - you use it to decorate your office or cubical in case you happen to work with a crypto bro who's always trying to convert you. It will either offer an opportunity to educate them or it will keep them away.

What it's like to get scammed

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The red flags are easier to see in hindsight. What you need to do is figure out how to see them in the moment.

Plain text is the best text

from my inbox

Lots of people and organizations have difficulty doing email properly, and scammers are no exception. Everyone is so focused on the HTML portion of the email they forget about the plain text version and you often find things you weren't supposed to see; whether it be the true URL (as seen above it's entirely wrong and totally suspicious) that is often disguised in the HTML email, or what appears to have been a place-holder for a URL in what I can only imagine was some kind of scam template. 

Nice of them to give it such a helpful label.

It takes a special kind of scumbag...

from here and here

As bad as it is to hack the living, it somehow seems worse to hack the dead.

The Dude does not abide by your scams

found on Izismile

I feel the same way about calls concerning my non-existent Visa card.