The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function
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What is a scam that people should know about?
There are, sadly, far too many people and companies out there more than willing to take advantage of people. Fortunately, awareness is usually a good defense. What are some scams that we should...
There are, sadly, far too many people and companies out there more than willing to take advantage of people. Fortunately, awareness is usually a good defense. What are some scams that we should all know about so that we don't fall for them?
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Twitch is suing the trolls who flooded Artifact streams with porn and gore
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How greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
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Bitfinex covered $850 million loss using Tether funds, NY prosecutors allege
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Secrecy, self-dealing, and greed at the NRA
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Popular apps in Google's Play Store are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud
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Ad fraud scheme drained users' batteries and data by running hidden video ads in Android apps
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Paul Manafort sentenced to forty-seven months in US prison for tax and bank fraud
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Mystery as Quadriga crypto-cash goes missing
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Farmers markets lies exposed
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How an investigation of fake US Federal Communications Commission comments snared a prominent DC media firm
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In North Carolina, investigators find ballot ‘scheme’ in House race
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Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money to increase revenue
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State official went roaming around Vermont to test cell coverage claims
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The world’s oldest woman was 122 when she died. A researcher believes that her daughter assumed her identity in the 1930s to avoid inheritance taxes.
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Keyboardio was deceived and defrauded for over a year by the account manager handling their manufacturing in China
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Bernie Madoff's victims are close to getting their $19 billion back
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Card skimming malware removed from Infowars online store
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Czech PM's future hangs in balance after son's kidnap claims
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Apps installed on millions of Android phones tracked user behavior to execute a multimillion dollar ad fraud scheme
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New York Attorney General launches probe into MoviePass parent company for allegedly misleading investors
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The CumEx Files - A cross-border investigation - How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55 billion
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How a fraudster got $12 million out of a Canadian university: They just asked for it
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Where in the world is Denmark’s $2 billion?
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Voice phishing scams are getting more clever
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How an international hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million
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Researcher at the center of an epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him
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Tesla CEO Musk accused in lawsuit of defrauding shareholders
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How an ex-cop rigged McDonald’s Monopoly game and stole millions
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How an ex-cop rigged McDonald’s Monopoly game and stole millions
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Plant your flag, mark your territory - "If you don’t plant your flag online, fraudsters and identity thieves may do it for you"
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Frank Abagnale: "Catch Me If You Can" | Talks at Google
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Nearly 1,200 Chinese companies caught falsifying financials in 2018
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Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister, charged with fraud
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A sobering look at fake online reviews
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Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu — A tale of ancient philosophers, alien abductions, murder-for-hire and how the world’s largest pearl came to be the centerpiece of an 80-year-old hoax
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Man allegedly used change of address form to move UPS headquarters to his apartment
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TIDAL accused of deliberatly faking streaming numbers
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Inside the ecosystem that fuels Amazon's fake review problem
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Ninety-eight years of mail fraud - how the postal letter became a tool for ingenious criminality
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