Criminals running romance scams have added a new weapon to their playbook: real-time deepfake video calls that let them pose as someone else on camera, pass visual “proof of identity” checks, and keep ...

Artificial-intelligence tools have become good enough at fabricating realistic video that the FBI is urging people to confirm the identity of anyone contacting them through a second, independent ...

If you’ve clicked through on a scam ad or called the number, and then downloaded something, handed over some ...

A Filipino woman thought she had found love with Dubai’s charismatic crown prince after weeks of flirtatious messages and intimate video calls. Instead, she became the latest victim of an increasingly ...

I’ve noticed an uptick in scam emails that get past Gmail’s spam filters over the past few years. As an author, the emails I get are usually from so-called book clubs, filled with empty praise for my ...

Americans have been taken with scams for years. Now, the word is being used for any system that ends with somebody profiting at their expense. By Nitsuh Abebe The word “scam” keeps getting more ...

The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, ...

Consumers who have already lost money to fraud are being targeted again — this time by criminals pretending to be FBI agents offering to help recover their funds. In the scammers’ world, the tactic is ...