A small study from Northeastern University points to a troubling possibility: artificial intelligence may strengthen one of the internet's most ruthless scams. In a seven-day experiment designed to ...

As scams get more advanced and AI makes them even harder to detect, our instinct to blame victims is making scammers’ jobs ...

An AI model on your phone can try to determine if you’re getting scammed. is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, ...

In this scam, the crooks view their victims as pigs that can be tempted and tricked into turning over their life savings.

Federal prosecutors officially seized thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin on Tuesday that they say came from an alleged romance scam called "Pig Butchering," according to court filings. The ...

Once its proceeds mix with scam money, exchanges struggle to separate proliferation finance from ordinary laundering, the paper warns.

A Pennsylvania man lost $35,000 in an elaborate government imposter scam involving fake Federal Trade Commission officials, ...

When it comes to grifting, human scammers performed much worse than AI chatbots in recent scientific experiments.

Scammers are targeting victims through social media, dating apps, and texts, using fake relationships and cryptocurrency ...

JUPITER, Fla. — Through tears, a 67-year-old man who had retired in Jupiter described how he thought he had found love and opportunity with “Aileen,” who first wrote him a text message looking for ...

“Pig butchering” — originating from the Chinese phrase sha zhu pan, a metaphor for fattening a victim before slaughter — isn’t a quick hustle. A scammer builds a relationship over weeks or months, ...

A federal court has ordered six defendants to pay more than $5.5 million in penalties after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged they ran a "pig butchering" cryptocurrency scam — ...