Working for global banks and telcos, Apate’s 200,000 AI characters pretend to fall victim to 600,000 scam calls each month — ...

Losses to romance baiting, or pig butchering, scams increased 40% year-on-year (YoY) in 2024 to comprise a third of total crypto fraud revenue, according to Chainalysis. A day before Valentine’s Day, ...

Hello, is this Marta?” The man on the phone had an accent that was hard to place, but his English was clear and direct. He introduced himself as Nick. As you might expect of someone in her 80s, Marta ...

Everybody has their own way of dealing with phone scammers. I tried different tactics. When someone tried to sell me an extended car warranty I played "the dumbest man in the world." When they asked ...

Interpol calls on the cybersecurity community, law enforcement, and the media to stop using the term "Pig Butchering" when referring to online relationship and investment scams, as it unnecessarily ...

There may be no better target for a prank than a scammer. That’s exactly what Rosie Okomura does. Known online as IRL Rosie, she’s part of a growing group of creators who spend their time calling ...

Whether we'd like to admit it or not, we fall for scams sometimes. Maybe not we Pandas particularly, but we as a society. According to a report by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and Feedzai, scammers ...

Several cryptocurrency companies have come together to prevent nearly $50m stolen via “romance baiting” (pig butchering) scammers reaching its intended destination. Blockchain analytics firm ...