After fake vaccines sprung up online during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kitboga, a professional ‘scambaiter’, set about uncovering them. We met him as he trolls and exposes the scammers using an old lady ...

In December 2024, a scammer who believed he was minutes away from stealing millions of dollars in Bitcoin instead collapsed into panic when his carefully staged con turned against him. What unfolded ...

The good guys have an army of their own now. I met the people (and machines) using AI to scam the scammers. Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism ...

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Not long ago, Monica Cotelingham found herself stuffing cash into a Bitcoin machine at a gas station in suburban Maryland and weeping. Earlier that day, she had received a call from a phone number ...

The gentle voice of an elderly woman named Edna is heard over the phone. "I'm going to call Ticketmaster and see if we can get us some tickets to a Taylor Swift concert, OK?" she says. "Will you call ...