HEY, I’D LOVE TO GET 1400 BUCKS FROM THE GOVERNMENT. BUT FOLKS, THIS IS A SCAM. FIRST OF ALL, THE IRS SIMPLY DOES NOT TAX PEOPLE WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION. AND SECOND, THIS PARTICULAR MESSAGE IS ...

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 ...

Review: Tarini Bandopadhyay (Paresh Rawal) is a gifted storyteller who has never written down his tales, fearing criticism and rejection. The eccentric socialist from Kolkata has held 75 jobs ...

The organisation is an independent external dispute resolution service – acting as an ombudsman of sorts – and can compel banks to pay compensation to scam victims. But news.com.au’s ...

The stakes may be higher than you may expect, too, as tax scams often target not only your money but also your personal information. As a result, falling victim to this type of scam can result in ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed “scareware blocker,” which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a very pervasive type of online scam. “Scareware” has blighted ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams. Scareware scams (also known ...

The new year doesn’t necessarily bring about a shift in scam tactics. In fact, over the years, many scams have slowly evolved as scammers incorporate new technology and play off of the most recent ...

Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton’s jazz album “A Day in Copenhagen”—piped into the galleries—is the principal soundtrack for “Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century,” at ...

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

The Commonwealth Bank and Westpac published more than a dozen screenshots of scam activity on Facebook and accused Meta of failing to remove pages and posts even after they had been flagged as ...

However, Nambiar realised he fell victim to a major scam when the invested money was not returned. He filed a complaint at the Tripunithura Hill Palace police station on January 5, 2025. According to ...