Scams

SMS messages, or “texts”, are old hat these days. These days, most of us prefer services that don’t go through the mobile phone network, such as…

When hackers take over your account on Facebook, it could mean you see suspicious posts about deals on Ray-Ban sunglasses, which are definitely bogus…

Hackers are hijacking the channels of popular YouTubers to turn run cryptocurrency scams over the video-sharing platform. In one reported case, they…

While measures to block those annoyances grind on, two efforts are proposing a different solution that amounts to “trust someone.” They take the…

NEW YORK: Cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged more than 400% in 2018 to around US$1.7 billion, according to a…

Phishing scams attempting to get info out of Apple users are nothing new, but scammers are growing more clever and scams are getting harder to…

These days, it’s so important to know who’s calling your mobile with the number of scams that seem to be targeting us. Unfortunately,…

Back in 2012, domain renewal scams were extremely popular false billing scams which seemed to be targeting everyone who had domain names registered.…

Sure, Elon Musk tweets a lot. Probably more than he should (at least without a lawyer present). But have you noticed just how many Elon Musks there…

Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it’s easy to forget scam artists…