Romance baiting scams build emotional bonds over weeks before steering victims toward fake cryptocurrency investments. A recent study shows that most of this work consists of repeatable text exchanges ...

Apate’s 200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ are so good at scam baiting, the company has a monthly KPI for how many F-bombs scammers drop at the infuriating bots. Australian tech firm Apate deploys a vast array ...

Researchers built an AI chatbot from commercially available tools, set it loose on 22 volunteers for seven days, and found it outperformed a trained human romance scammer at building trust and ...

Dating keeps finding new ways to make people miserable. The latest trend clogging up timelines is “bio-baiting,” yep…sorry, a new term in dating lexicon. It’s a form of soft deception where people pad ...

In some cases, the emotional and psychological harm from the attack was so great that it has led to people taking their own life. Interpol is now advocating for different terminology to describe these ...

Several cryptocurrency companies have come together to prevent nearly $50m stolen via “romance baiting” (pig butchering) scammers reaching its intended destination. Blockchain analytics firm ...

Nobody likes spam messages, but some of them contain rather fascinating scams. Case in point, [Ben Tasker] recently got a few romance scam emails that made him decide to take a poke at the scam behind ...

Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new tool, Scam Alert, to thwart con artists on WhatsApp. The optional feature, currently in beta testing, will run an on-device machine learning ...

There may be no better target for a prank than a scammer. That’s exactly what Rosie Okomura does. Known online as IRL Rosie, she’s part of a growing group of creators who spend their time calling ...