How Cory Doctorow got scammed (and why AI will make it worse)
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An instant fake ID factory - An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use “neural networks” to generate realistic looking photos of fake IDs for just $15
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Florida official letter: "Misrepresenting" gender on drivers licenses is fraud, changes now banned
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The Open Hand Foundation, founded in part by Jirard Khalil (The Completionist) has been keeping and storing donations for ten years
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British trader Sanjay Shah has landed in Denmark after being extradited from the United Arab Emirates over tax fraud charges worth £1.46bn
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Kenneth Chesebro (former Donald Trump lawyer) may testify in Nevada and Arizona election fraud cases
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GiveDirectly loses $900,000 in DRC mobile cash fraud
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US Supreme Court case Securities and Exchange Commission v Jarkesy threatens the role of adminstrative law judges
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This dev conference organizer seems addicted to making up women
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US lawyers insist Nikola founder shouldn't face prison time for fraud — unlike Elizabeth Holmes
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Payments app Zelle begins refunds for imposter scams after Washington pressure
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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did
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Crypto Twitter found Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud
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The great Zelle pool scam - All I wanted was a status symbol. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in the downside of payment apps.
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There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit
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Twitter’s future is a return to Elon Musk’s past
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Spaceship of fools: Behind every conspiracy theory lies a golden opportunity for companies and hucksters to make money. UFOs are no exception.
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The trillion-dollar grift: Inside the greatest scam of all time
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Over $200 billion potentially stolen from COVID-19 relief programs in US
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Independent journalist uncovers a ring dedicated to publishing low quality articles and increasing publishing credits
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RICO lawsuit targets Credit Suisse
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The great grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted
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Investigation: Who’s telling the truth about Disco Elysium?
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The ugly truth behind “We buy ugly houses”
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In addition to fake music, artificial intelligence has created a big new problem for Spotify – fake listeners
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Once praised for its generous social safety net, Denmark now collects troves of data on welfare claimants
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How Gautam Adani lost more than $50 billion in a week
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Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies
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Donald Trump's company sentenced to pay $1.61 million penalty for tax fraud
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Sam Bankman-Fried: FTX founder arrested in Bahamas
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Tesla: Our ‘failure’ to make actual self-driving cars ‘is not fraud’
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At least $1 billion of client funds missing at failed crypto firm FTX, sources say
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s US bank fraud charges to be dismissed
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Elizabeth Holmes gets more than eleven years for Theranos scam
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Science has a nasty Photoshopping problem
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I built an artificial intelligence that not only calls scammers to waste their time, but can steal their account information to help get them shut down (and it's working)
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Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy
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US Securities and Exchange Commission charges eleven people in alleged $300 million crypto Ponzi scheme
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Mexican scam loan apps will edit your face onto X-rated photos and send them to your family
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Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud
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Tin Chin and Mo Lin were inseparable at the Brooklyn homeless shelter. But one of the men wasn’t who he seemed to be.
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‘Zombie papers’ just won’t die. Retracted papers by notorious fraudster still cited years later.
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Federal Trade Commission sues Walmart for facilitating money transfer fraud that fleeced US customers out of hundreds of millions
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The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
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It's not just the Internal Revenue Service—the US government wants your selfies
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Bitcoin pyramid schemes wreak havoc on Brazil’s ‘New Egypt’
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The fraud supply chain
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Why is retro gaming so expensive? | Xplay
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
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Exposing fraud and deception in the retro video game market
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