The gentle voice of an elderly woman named Edna is heard over the phone. "I'm going to call Ticketmaster and see if we can get us some tickets to a Taylor Swift concert, OK?" she says. "Will you call ...

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 ...

Kitboga is the alias of a Twitch and YouTube streamer who focuses on scam baiting - wasting the time of con artists who are trying to steal money from people. He and a few others have now turned to ...

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 ...

Captchas, right? Sure, they're ostensibly for security, but it's annoying having to decipher a series of squiggles just to post a comment or read an article. They could always be worse, though: what ...

Irgendwann im Sommer des Jahres 2022 fiel ich ohne Vorwarnung in das Kaninchenloch, das sich Scam Baiting nennt. Es fing ganz harmlos an: Ich suchte auf Youtube für einen Kollegen nach dem Trailer zum ...