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Frank on Fraud
5d ago
Guest post. Written By Oliver Fendley When my high school offered us 12-graders the chance to do a month-long January internship , I knew exactly who I wanted to work with; my Uncle Frank who goes by the name FrankonFraud. Little did I know that my internship would lead me down a deep hole of […]
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5d ago
Ever see how people post photos of themselves holding up a sign that says the name of the person or the date to show that they are legitimate? These are also called “proof of life” photos and they are widely used on social media to prove its not a scam. Well, Nigerian Romance scammers are […]
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5d ago
China’s new Deepseek model may be leveraged on a new website called DeepTrump.AI which allows users to create deepfakes of President Trump. The site allows a user to type in any text, create a deepfake video of Trump reading that text, and then download the video. The site appears to be setup to promote a […]
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5d ago
A recent LinkedIn post by Johnny Ayers of Socure is shedding light on a new attack vector that bypasses banks identity checks. This is a warning banks, fintechs and lenders should be well aware of because it threatens the heart of their fraud control systems. The post shares an email he received from a customer […]
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5d ago
A Reddit user named Ok_Calender_851 posted an alarming deepfake video that was so convincing that it almost fooled his friends parents. His friends parents thought they had won a contest and they were just about ready to send in money before he saved them. The HGTV Remodel Contest Scam “My friend had parents (60+) win […]
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5d ago
A French woman was conned out of $850,000 after a scammer created crude deepfakes of Brad Pitt in the hospital and convinced her that he urgently needed her help. The scam was undoubtedly carried out by Yahoo Boy scammers who use the technique as one of their primary formats to steal money from their victims. […]
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5d ago
The Athletic reports that Federal prosecutors released a four-minute audio recording which they said showed Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter convicted of defrauding Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, attempting to push through a $200,000 wire transfer from one of the player’s accounts. The recording which was released by the bank to prosecutors and then […]
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5d ago
A man trafficked into various scam operations in Cambodia has posted a plea for help, describing his conditions as “Living in Hell”. The message, which was posted in a Telegram Bounty channel called Southeast Asia Reward Wanted, includes a disturbing video of him being beaten and a plea to his old scam bosses to let […]
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5d ago
Yahoo Boi always post interesting videos on his Youtube channel. The videos which are listed as “For Educational Purposes Only, provide a glimpse into the technology and methods that Nigerian romance scammers are using to con their victims. In this video, Yahoo Boi demonstrates how voice changers can be used by scammers to fool their […]
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5d ago
Tiny Buckholts State Bank has filed a class action lawsuit against Navy Federal Credit Union for systematic failures in fraud prevention saying that is is costing banks across the nation millions of dollars. The lawsuit which was filed in Texas is bringing to light what many small banks have complained about for years: the lax […]
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