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Guard Your Heart and Your Bank Account: How to Prevent Romance Fraud This Valentine’s Day and Beyond 

By staying alert and taking proactive steps, such as those outlined above, we can collectively create a safer digital environment and significantly reduce the impact of romance fraud ...
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Pig Butchering at Heart of Bank Failure — CEO Gets 24 Years in Jail

Oink, oink, FAIL—you’re in jail: Kansas bank chief exec Shan Hanes stole money from investors, a church and others to buy cryptocurrency to feed a scam ...
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Netcraft Uses Its AI Platform to Trick and Track Online Scammers

At the RSA Conference last month, Netcraft introduced a generative AI-powered platform designed to interact with cybercriminals to gain insights into the operations of the conversational scams they’re running and disrupt their ...
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‘Microsoft’ Scammers Steal the Most, the FTC Says

Scammers impersonating Microsoft, Publishers Clearing House, Amazon and Apple are at the top of the FTC’s “who’s who” list. Based on consumer reports and complaints to the agency, hundreds of millions of ...
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Valentine’s Day Scams Woo the Lonely-Hearted

A quarter of Valentine’s Day-themed spam emails intercepted by Bitdefender's filters were identified as scams aimed at defrauding recipients ...
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China continues Pig-Butchering Crack-down

One of my techniques for keeping current on Cybercrime trends is having an "interesting" collection of international news ticklers. This story came to me via X:CyberScamMonitor via a QQ account called "onCambodia." ...
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How to Combat ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams with Decision Intelligence

Ever since people started exchanging goods and services, there has been a risk of one party scamming the other. And there has always been a risk of a third party scamming both ...
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