Leslie Pickett lost over $10,000 to a deepfake scam after a fake Jon Bon Jovi account on Instagram used AI videos to build ...

Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them? In May 2024, Pooja Shali, an anchor for India ...

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 ...

FaceTime allows iPhone users not only to talk to someone but to actually see them as they engage in conversation. But, as criminals do with many helpful features, they use them to conduct a scam.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Video shows Kent County Sheriff's Office deputies converging on a suspected scam courier accused of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Undercover deputies arrested a man in Michigan during a sting operation involving an alleged scam to defraud an elderly woman out ...

“Blood Money: Lethal Eden” taps into a rising anxiety in China by simulating the experiences of people trafficked for the scam industry. By Francesca Regalado and Pei-Lin Wu A woman you met online ...

Romance scams are among the most emotionally damaging forms of cyber crime because they combine carefully manufactured intimacy with financial theft – the scammers go after your heart, and then your ...

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