"If the business does pay, it often doesn't stop the reviews. The scammers know they are willing to pay, and they double down ...

Pierogi from Scammer Payback on YouTube joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about scams and scambaiting. Why do scammers ask victims to buy gift cards? What are some of the biggest ...

"What they're looking for is for businesses to call these numbers, and they'll demand money for them to remove the reviews that they posted," said the marketing manager for Tim Leeper Roofing.

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The oldest scam on record dates back to ancient Greece around 300 B.C., and since that time, humans have continued to find inventive ways to remove money and possessions ...

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Everywhere you look there's a potential scam waiting to happen. Look no further than your inbox, CNET survey finds. Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven ...

A tactic used by a growing number of scammers is to impersonate help centres in order to trick victims into sharing their screens via WhatsApp. By doing so, they can obtain sensitive information like ...

My dad vividly recalls the day he got a phone call from someone impersonating one of his grandsons. The connection wasn’t clear, but he got the gist of the message: Jack was calling from overseas, he ...

The victims were led to the Arizona convenience store by an increasingly familiar scam: Crooks had tricked them into believing they were in legal trouble, their bank accounts were hacked or that they ...