New research shows that one in four Americans say they’ve encountered a fake profile or AI-generated bot online Between December 1, 2025, and January 22, 2026, McAfee blocked hundreds of thousands of ...

Cambodian lawmakers have enacted a new law to combat online scams, imposing severe penalties including life imprisonment, as part of a government initiative to eradicate cybercrime.

A Ghanaian national has pleaded guilty in the United States to his role in an international fraud ring that used online romance scams and business email compromises to steal millions of dollars from ...

The median reported loss for romance scams was $2,218 in the third quarter of 2025. Romance scammers will frame their pitch one way for a 25-year-old woman and another for a 55-year-old divorced male, ...

These deceptions succeed because they are built around something profoundly, inherently human: the wish to be desired and to be chosen. We’ve all read the stories about people losing enormous sums of ...

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