Scammers in Manhattan and Brooklyn have stolen over $76,000 directly from people’s cell phones that people willingly hand over. The scam, which has affected dozens in the New York era, ...
You can tell media literacy is low nowadays by how many people are willing to follow rich people to islands to participate in their unregulated scientific experiments. It’s like people ...
A French woman was scammed out of $850,000 by someone on social media posing as Brad Pitt in a romantic scheme that lasted for more than a year. The 53-year-old ...
Rod Ashby lost his home, then his wife, then nearly $40,000. The North Carolina man’s ordeal started in September when Hurricane Helene hit. The floodwaters swept away the home Rod ...
Five people in Texas have been charged with certifying over 200 unqualified teachers. Prosecutors say that the scheme began in May 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
On Instagram, the British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver detailed a mysterious cheese robbery that pocketed nearly $400,000 worth of cheese from Neal’s Yard Dairy, an artisanal cheese seller in London—a ...
Even when fans manage to beat the odds and snag tickets on Ticketmaster, there’s no guarantee that they’ll get to keep them. NBC’s Bay Area station reported that, after fans ...
Elisabeth Finch has made quite the name for herself, both as a TV writer for shows like Grey’s Anatomy, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries, and as—well—a cancer scammer. Peacock’s ...
Scammers are exploiting grief by promoting fake funeral livestreams that steal credit card information from mourners. That’s according to a new report by the cybercrime outlet Krebs On Security. After a ...
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Such is the case with the recent social media scam, in which fake dentists claim to offer low-cost veneers. ...
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