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The FTC's latest findings reveal that love is in the air for people up to no good.
Catfishing.
Journal of Nanoparticle Research -
Better Business Bureau Serving Western Virginia warns consumers of scammers using TikTok targeting minors with new sophisticated schemes.
Then there are the counterfeiters.
Facebook scams can be hard to avoid running into. Here’s what to look out for and what to do to protect yourself.
From black holes at the Earth's center to decapitated quails, a group of scientists—some working for a journal from a major publisher—are prolifically publishing pseudoscience.
Phone scammers are using spoofed caller ID numbers to convince their victims they are employees of you bank. Don't fall for their tricks.
Criminals use so-called Russian, encrypted, or white SIMs to change their phone number, add voice manipulation to their calls, and try to stay ahead of law enforcement.
Phishing and social engineering attacks to divert wire transfers or invoice payments are not new fraud techniques, but they have recently taken a back
The graph released by the Georgia Department of Public Health. Tap the graph to see it at full size. Pictured above is a graph released a few days ago by the Georgia Department of Public Health, showing the top 5 counties in the state with the most confirmed cases of COVID-19. You’d think that things […]
Extortion emails have surged recent weeks, with demands for money in exchange of not releasing private videos. Here's how to handle them.
This past week, assistant zoology professor Daniel Baldassarre at SUNY Oswego published a paper in a supposedly scientific journal with the following abstract:
Cyber security firms have sparked a revolution similar to the spread of private police forces.
The scheme, dubbed “DiCaprio,” shows how common ad fraud has become in the connected TV industry.
Nature - Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds...
The publisher and conference organizer is ordered to pay the US government for what some report to be predatory behavior.
Following a public outcry over their proliferation, paralleled by a media exposé together with regulatory pressures in some countries, fake journals have appeared to be cleaning up their act.
QR code scams are still popular. We should learn to treat QR codes like we do any other unrecognizable URL: with suspicion on where it will take us.