#scams — Public Fediverse posts

Once again, my Taxes are overdue, and John at the IRS only accepts crypto and Target gift cards...
I guess I'm not really the target group for these scammers.
#scams

Fake CAPTCHA Scams

New variant of an old scam: Use the framing of a CAPTCHA to get an unsuspecting user to download and run a malicious program.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/fake-captcha-scams.html

#Uncategorized #captchas #scams

#интересное
#scams
Мошенники в МАХ придумали новую уловку — они пишут от имени «соседа» о подозрительном человеке у двери и присылают якобы видео-файл.
Цель — заставить открыть вредоносную ссылку или файл и получить доступ к устройству, данным или деньгам.

https://www.europesays.com/ie/688861/ Debunked: Videos of Zuckerberg saying humanity’s water is almost depleted are deepfake scams #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #CryptoScam #cryptocurrency #deepfakes #Éire #FactCheck #FactCheck #IE #Ireland #MarkZuckerberg #Scams #Technology

China based illicit service broker (money laundering, scam infrastructure, stolen data) Xinbi sanctioned and had assets seized by U.S. DoJ

Xinbi facilitated North Korean bad actors transfering 10's of $ millions in stolen funds from major hacks. https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/ofac-sanctions-xinbi-cybercriminal-crypto-marketplace/

#Crypto #CryptoCurrency #DoJ #CryptoPayments #Xinbi #OrganizedCrime #SCSF #Fraud #CriminalNetworks #MoneyLaundering #Scams #StolenData #Crime #DPRK #BlockChain #Hackers #Chainalysis #Cybercrime

China based illicit service broker (money laundering, scam infrastructure, stolen data) Xinbi sanctioned and had assets seized by U.S. DoJ

Xinbi facilitated North Korean bad actors transfering 10's of $ millions in stolen funds from major hacks. https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/ofac-sanctions-xinbi-cybercriminal-crypto-marketplace/

#Crypto #CryptoCurrency #DoJ #CryptoPayments #Xinbi #OrganizedCrime #SCSF #Fraud #CriminalNetworks #MoneyLaundering #Scams #StolenData #Crime #DPRK #BlockChain #Hackers #Chainalysis #Cybercrime

China based illicit service broker (money laundering, scam infrastructure, stolen data) Xinbi sanctioned and had assets seized by U.S. DoJ

Xinbi facilitated North Korean bad actors transfering 10's of $ millions in stolen funds from major hacks. https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/ofac-sanctions-xinbi-cybercriminal-crypto-marketplace/

#Crypto #CryptoCurrency #DoJ #CryptoPayments #Xinbi #OrganizedCrime #SCSF #Fraud #CriminalNetworks #MoneyLaundering #Scams #StolenData #Crime #DPRK #BlockChain #Hackers #Chainalysis #Cybercrime

China based illicit service broker (money laundering, scam infrastructure, stolen data) Xinbi sanctioned and had assets seized by U.S. DoJ

Xinbi facilitated North Korean bad actors transfering 10's of $ millions in stolen funds from major hacks. https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/ofac-sanctions-xinbi-cybercriminal-crypto-marketplace/

#Crypto #CryptoCurrency #DoJ #CryptoPayments #Xinbi #OrganizedCrime #SCSF #Fraud #CriminalNetworks #MoneyLaundering #Scams #StolenData #Crime #DPRK #BlockChain #Hackers #Chainalysis #Cybercrime

China based illicit service broker (money laundering, scam infrastructure, stolen data) Xinbi sanctioned and had assets seized by U.S. DoJ

Xinbi facilitated North Korean bad actors transfering 10's of $ millions in stolen funds from major hacks. https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/ofac-sanctions-xinbi-cybercriminal-crypto-marketplace/

#Crypto #CryptoCurrency #DoJ #CryptoPayments #Xinbi #OrganizedCrime #SCSF #Fraud #CriminalNetworks #MoneyLaundering #Scams #StolenData #Crime #DPRK #BlockChain #Hackers #Chainalysis #Cybercrime

https://www.europesays.com/people/227463/ Debunked: Videos of Zuckerberg saying humanity’s water is almost depleted are deepfake scams #ArtificialIntelligence #CryptoScam #Cryptocurrency #deepfakes #FactCheck #FactCheck #MarkZuckerberg #Scams

Thousands of suspicious Android apps found abusing Google Play Early Access to push fake rewards, deepfake promotions, misleading utilities, and fraudulent ad clicks.

Listen/Read: https://hackread.com/google-play-early-access-abuse-suspicious-android-apps/

#Cybersecurity #Android #GooglePlay #Scams #Deepfake

Thousands of suspicious Android apps found abusing Google Play Early Access to push fake rewards, deepfake promotions, misleading utilities, and fraudulent ad clicks.

Listen/Read: https://hackread.com/google-play-early-access-abuse-suspicious-android-apps/

#Cybersecurity #Android #GooglePlay #Scams #Deepfake

A little rudeness can save you from being scammed? Count me in | Polly Hudson
By Polly Hudson

Being polite to strangers will make everyone love you – especially those who just want to swindle you out of your money. I won’t make that mistake again

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/14/rudeness-prevent-scam-money

#Scams #Consumeraffairs #Money #Telecoms #Telecommunicationsindustry #Mobilephones #TheGuardian #PollyHudson

A little rudeness can save you from being scammed? Count me in | Polly Hudson
By Polly Hudson

Being polite to strangers will make everyone love you – especially those who just want to swindle you out of your money. I won’t make that mistake again

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/14/rudeness-prevent-scam-money

#Scams #Consumeraffairs #Money #Telecoms #Telecommunicationsindustry #Mobilephones #TheGuardian #PollyHudson

A little rudeness can save you from being scammed? Count me in | Polly Hudson
By Polly Hudson

Being polite to strangers will make everyone love you – especially those who just want to swindle you out of your money. I won’t make that mistake again

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/14/rudeness-prevent-scam-money

#Scams #Consumeraffairs #Money #Telecoms #Telecommunicationsindustry #Mobilephones #TheGuardian #PollyHudson

A little rudeness can save you from being scammed? Count me in | Polly Hudson
By Polly Hudson

Being polite to strangers will make everyone love you – especially those who just want to swindle you out of your money. I won’t make that mistake again

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/14/rudeness-prevent-scam-money

#Scams #Consumeraffairs #Money #Telecoms #Telecommunicationsindustry #Mobilephones #TheGuardian #PollyHudson

How Japan’s Nightlife Tourist Traps Pad Their Reviews

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://unseen-japan.com/japan-nightlife-traps-fake-reviews/

How Japan’s Nightlife Tourist Traps Pad Their Reviews

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://unseen-japan.com/japan-nightlife-traps-fake-reviews/

How Japan’s Nightlife Tourist Traps Pad Their Reviews

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://unseen-japan.com/japan-nightlife-traps-fake-reviews/

How Japan’s Nightlife Tourist Traps Pad Their Reviews

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://unseen-japan.com/japan-nightlife-traps-fake-reviews/

How Japan’s Nightlife Tourist Traps Pad Their Reviews

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://unseen-japan.com/japan-nightlife-traps-fake-reviews/

#fediblock
#scams

'[email protected]'

Online soliciation scam making the rounds. Claiming to be a photography magazine. Which doesn't exist.

‘Cheap iPhone deal’: warning over scam sites selling latest Apple mobiles
By Shane Hickey

Criminals exploit demand for iPhone 18 Pro and foldable Duo to trick people eager to get their hands on one

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/13/cheap-iphone-18-pro-duo-deal-price-scam-sites-apple-mobiles

#Money #iPhone #Consumeraffairs #Apple #Technology #Scams #Smartphones #Cybercrime #Onlineshopping #UKnews #Mobilephones #TheGuardian #ShaneHickey

Tesco alerts police as supermarket becomes latest victim of scam ‘endorsement’ ads
By Rob Davies

Exclusive: Supermarket joins line of firms and sports stars including Bellingham and Haaland to have their image hijacked via ads

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/13/tesco-scam-endorsement-haaland-bellingham-casino

#Scams #Tesco #Barclays #Gambling #Business #Consumeraffairs #Money #Supermarkets #Facebook #Meta #Instagram #Advertising #Cybercrime #Socialnetworking #Internet #Media #Technology #UKnews #Intellectualproperty #Law #Regulators #TysonFury #LewisHamilton #Monzobank #TheGuardian #RobDavies

Tesco alerts police as supermarket becomes latest victim of scam ‘endorsement’ ads https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/13/tesco-scam-endorsement-haaland-bellingham-casino #Scams #Tesco #Barclays #Gambling #Business #ConsumerAffairs #Money #Supermarkets #Facebook #Meta #Instagram #Advertising #Cybercrime #SocialNetworking #Internet #Media #Technology #UkNews #IntellectualProperty #Law #Regulators #TysonFury #LewisHamilton #MonzoBank

‘Cheap iPhone deal’: warning over scam sites selling latest Apple mobiles https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/13/cheap-iphone-18-pro-duo-deal-price-scam-sites-apple-mobiles #Money #Iphone #ConsumerAffairs #Apple #Technology #Scams #Smartphones #Cybercrime #OnlineShopping #UkNews #MobilePhones

“ #Customerservice encounters are becoming Kafkaesque adventures that leave us feeling powerless. All while #A.I.slop is filling inboxes and #socialmedia feeds and A.I.-enabled #scams seek relentlessly to trick us.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o... #AI

Opinion | Big Tech Fooled Amer...

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@k3n/117256581315202422

This reminds me that “Domain Registry of America” is actually a Canadian company.

They’re also for all intents and purposes a scam so can’t recommend.

If you own a domain name, you may have received something from them in the mail whenever your domain was up for renewal regardless of if you registered your domain name with them or not.

Their rates were always much higher than normal market rates. If you paid them, they just took your money. You could get them to follow through and deliver the service you paid for, but that would only make your situation worse.

For that reason it’s technically a legitimate business, but technically is doing a heavy lift.

#scams #webdev

Six Nigerians extradited to US over $6M online romance scam
By Guardian staff and Associated Press

Alleged members of Black Axe criminal network that swindled US women out of $6m flown from South Africa

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/nigerians-extradited-online-romance-scams

#FBI #SouthAfrica #Nigeria #Cybercrime #Scams #Internet #UScrime #USnews #Africa #Worldnews #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff #AssociatedPress

Six Nigerians extradited to US over $6M online romance scam https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/nigerians-extradited-online-romance-scams #Fbi #SouthAfrica #Nigeria #Cybercrime #Scams #Internet #UsCrime #UsNews #Africa #WorldNews

Via #LLRX @psuPete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 5, 2026 - 5 highlights from this week: Your boss, tech companies & #police can read your #chatbot conversations; EFF releases 2 part guide to online safety and #doxxing; #TMobile Handed #Journalist’s #Phone Records to #Government; #FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ #Drivers #Licenses; #Amazon launches verification tool to help #consumers avoid #scams. #cybercrime #cybersecurity #privacy https://www.llrx.com/2026/09/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-september-5-2026/

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: Aspiring 'evil genius' shares step-by-step guide to pushing #malware on Google Ads. Apparently, all you need is a copy of "Scams for Dummies" and an inability to understand the word 'illegal.' 😈📉 Bravo, Sherlock, you're truly the hero we deserve.
https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/ #breakingnews #googleads #cybersecurity #scams #evilgenius #HackerNews #ngated

Associated Press: Party’s over for crypto scammers who went on a spending spree after a $240 million bitcoin theft. “The scammers — a network of young men in their late teens or early 20s — celebrated the August 2024 heist by embarking on a wild spending spree. They purchased fleets of sports cars, flew on private jets, hired security guards and rented mansions in Miami and the Hamptons. […]

Popped out in the rain earlier today to meet with McAfee. Got to see a fascinating demonstration of scams being generated based on Instagram influencer travel posts, and hear about their latest consumer products focused on protecting people from QR code scams, smishing text message scams, catfishing and more…

#cybersecurity #techjournalist #mcafee #technology #technews #scams #AI #python

The death of ‘hello’: how gen Z – and scammers – put paid to the greeting https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/07/death-of-hello-gen-z-and-scammers #SocialEtiquette #Language #TelecommunicationsIndustry #YoungPeople #Technology #Scams #Crime

The death of ‘hello’: how gen Z – and scammers – put paid to the greeting

If you’re called by an unidentified number, the advice is to remain silent until you’re sure there’s a human being on the line. Is this the end of an era?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/07/death-of-hello-gen-z-and-scammers

#Socialetiquette #Language #Telecommunicationsindustry #Youngpeople #Technology #Scams #Crime #TheGuardian #

Visiting dad in the hospital and watching Hazardous History on old school TV... This episode is all about medical scams and ill advised cures.

Ironically half the commercials airing with it are medical scams and ill advised cures.

#Scams #medicine

How does Mr Trump feel about helping Americans?

https://quinnscommentary.net/2026/09/06/how-does-mr-trump-feel-about-helping-americans/

The student loan scam looking to dupe already anxious students
By Shane Hickey

Scammers hope to siphon off some of the £2.6bn in student maintenance funds paid out each September

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/sep/06/student-loan-scam-maintenance-funds-dupe-students

#Scams #Studentfinance #Crime #Consumeraffairs #Money #UKnews #Students #Education #Highereducation #TheGuardian #ShaneHickey

Value Flows Toward The Author. Always.

One of the great things about the last quarter century is how much the barriers to entry have fallen around the publishing industry. That has continued to blur […]

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.co...

#business-of-writing #digital-publishing #publishing #scam #scams #self-publishing #writing #scammer #writer

https://ideatrash.net/2026/09/value-flows-toward-the-author-always.html

The MIT Press Reader: A Brief History of the Internet’s Favorite Scam. “It is easy to see 419 merely as a tired cliché — and to mistake that familiarity for understanding. But doing so often leads to facile assumptions about the risks, motives, and imagined rewards on both sides of the exchange. To see the scam clearly, we need to treat it not simply as spam, but as a cultural myth, or […]

Engadget: Threads’ ubiquitous Mr Beast spam is part of a massive crypto scam network . “A spam account replies to a popular post with a nonsensical phrase and a low-quality screenshot of the British newspaper The Times featuring a fictitious story about Mr Beast. There’s usually a second, seemingly random, image — often a bouquet of flowers with an iPhone. The formula has some minor […]

GTA 6 scams: Fake early access sites appear as pre-orders open (June 25) - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/gta-6-scams-emerge-as-pre-orders-open/

#threatintel #GTA_6 #scams #cryptocurrency

Weekly output: Craig Newmark + Count von Count, T-Mobile freebies, Android fake call detection, election security

I’m on my way to the other half of the world tonight–once again, I’m speaking at Web Summit Rio. This time the organizers (who as per our usual arrangement are picking up airfare and lodging) have me moderating four panels. All of them are about AI in some way, and two only got added to my schedule this weekend.

6/1/2026: ‘Craigslist Founder Teams Up With a Muppet to Persuade People to Stop Clicking on Scams, PCMag

For the second time in six months, I had a video conversation with Craiglist founder-turned philanthropist about his Take9 efforts to get people to take a beat before clicking through sketchy links. This time, we discussed how Newmark has enlisted the help of a vaguely vampiric purple potentate–Sesame Street’s Count von Count–in this effort.

6/2/2026: T-Mobile Offers Fresh Set of Freebies for 10th Anniversary of T-Mobile Tuesdays, PCMag

T-Mobile offered an advance on this news but got the final version of their press release to me way too late in the workday on Monday. My editors were fine with me filing something Tuesday afternoon.

6/3/2026: Google Will Soon Spot Fake Calls on Supported Android Phones, PCMag

I noted some of the software dependencies of the new fake-call-detection feature, but Ars Technica’s Ryan Whitwam (once again) went into much more detail about them in his writeup.

6/3/2026: Report Cites Misinformation As Key Threat to Election Security, Doesn’t Name the Biggest Offenders, PCMag

The chance to quiz one of Check Point’s security experts about this report made for a more interesting post. Having to update it with a clarification about leaked credentials from the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue made for a more time-consuming post.

New Trump FCC Plan To ‘Fight Robocalls’ Raises Red Flags And Major Privacy Concerns

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/new-trump-fcc-plan-to-fight-robocalls-raises-red-flags-and-major-privacy-concerns/

WCVB: Bitcoin Depot files for bankruptcy, will take all crypto ATMs offline. “Bitcoin Depot, one of the largest crypto ATM operators in Massachusetts, filed for bankruptcy on Monday and will take all of its machines offline.”

#PSA Scam alert for the Anthropic class action settlement, from Courtney Milan--an author whose books were stolen *and* someone who studied law and clerked for a SCOTUS justice. IOW: she's not giving legal advice, she's explaining her own decision and sharing her insights.

#AnthropicClass #Anthropic #AnthropicSettlement #Scams #Writing @bookstodon

(it is an ongoing thread in Bluesky, sorry about that)

https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3mlvpycxkrc2p

Not Simon & Schuster: Deconstructing an Impersonation Scam

For writers chasing a traditional publishing contract, an email from Big 5 publisher Simon & Schuster inviting submission might seem like a dream come true.

J…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/02/27/not-simon-schuster-deconstructing-an-impersonation-scam/

#ArtificialIntelligence #REALWORLD #traditionalpublishing #adviceforwriters #scams

EXPAT WORLD Vol. 6 No. 10 December 15, 1994 https://hokkaidomarket.net/stuff-info.php?item=148 #ZINE #SINGAPORE #EXPAT #TRAVEL #UFO #SCAMS #NONSENSE #ZINE #COLLECTIBLE #HISTORY

Saturday, December 20, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/12/saturday-december-20-2025/