On Facebook Messenger, Meta has rolled out Safety Notices to caution you when you’re chatting with someone whose account shows signals of suspicious activity and who may be based in a different ...

Meta warns about scammers who reach out via unsolicited messages on its apps and other social media platforms, as well as by text messages.

In their different ways, Edgar and Rita were both victims of “ pig-butchering ”, the most lucrative scam in a global industry ...

Singapore Customs had also warned of another type of scam in a Facebook post on Dec 20. It involved a fake document with a forged Singapore Customs logo with a request to pay a sum of money for ...

Philippine authorities arrested around 100 people on Friday in a raid on a suspected online scam farm in Manila they said extorted victims. The raid in the Makati financial district was part of a ...

A growing street phone scam in New York City is defrauding victims of significant sums of money, with over $76,000 stolen last year. Criminals request a seemingly legitimate donation via transfer ...

Digital arrest scams have become a growing menace in recent years, with several high-profile cases reported recently. One notable instance involved a marketing consultant from Gurgaon, India, who was ...

There are reports of fake eggs being sold in markets. These eggs are made using chemicals and other substances like gelatin, synthetic colorants and coagulants, and seem real in appearance and ...

Chinese tourists visiting Thailand for Lunar New Year are worried about being kidnapped by gangsters to work in hellish scam centres, despite efforts to reassure them. Chinese nationals topped the ...

After he was elected, he introduced a bill that criminalizes the type of scam that led to his son’s death. In 2023 South Carolina passed “Gavin’s Law,” which is named after his son and ...

An investment scam is when someone offers you a fake - but often convincing - opportunity to make a profit after they hand over a sum of money. There are three main types of investment scams A totally ...

When Wang got to Bangkok, he was kidnapped and taken to an online scam compound, one of hundreds of thousands of people the United Nations says have been trapped into working for criminal networks ...