This smart backpack was Doug Monahan’s dumbest idea. Lots of people want a word with Doug Monahan — government lawyers, crowdfunding backers, people from his past, and me. I’d been trying to find him for over a year. As a reporter interested in crowdfunding disasters, I thought Monahan’s failed iBackpack project was one of the ultimate gadget pipe dreams gone bad. The beats were familiar: an idea that raised more than half a million dollars, only to never ship and leave behind thousands of angry backers. The difference in this story, however, is that for only the second time, the Federal Trade Commission is coming for the creator.

- A Dose of Buckley

Rental scams are on the rise and scam artists are more believable than ever. So how do you spot a scam? Here are 4 ways to tell if you're being scammed.

Apple is reportedly investigating a massive fraud by Foxconn managers who sold iPhones made from rejected parts.

Visa warns of malware at gas pumps that could scrape your credit card data.

As North American governments struggle to fight it, the robocall epidemic could already be changing how we use our phones. If you've stopped picking up, you're not alone.

Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. She told people she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Then, two years ago, she disappeared. Jamie Bartlett spent months investigating how she did it for the Missing Cryptoqueen podcast, and trying to figure out where she's hiding.

While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.

Jack Monroe's bank and PayPal accounts were used after her mobile phone number was hijacked.

A student from County Kilkenny in the Republic of Ireland has managed to scam money out of an internet scammer. The scammer transferred £25 to the student's account, which he subsequently donated to charity.

By definition, a con artist is a manipulator who cheats, or tricks, others through persuading them to believe something that is not true. Through deception, they fool people into believing they can make easy money when, in fact, it is the con artist who ends up taking the victim’s money. The criminal and legal consequences of such indiscretions can be insignificant or great, depending on the circumstances and the laws of the land. In the course of co-authoring The Crime Book...

Two individuals were arrested this week in connection with a fraud scheme that manipulated thousands of victims into paying for invented tech services that they didn’t need.

Trusii's hydrogen water machines were supposed to help users with their health problems, but customers claim the company is involved in a giant scam.

A Florida woman who claimed to be a fortune teller has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for taking $1.6 million from a Texas woman to remove a curse from her family. Sherry Tina Uwanawich, 28, was sentenced last week, according to the Associated Press.

James Gilbert Kwarteng was arrested last Saturday for allegedly conning Amazon out of nearly $370,000 (€300,000) by sending return packages filled with dirt. In what is being called "the biggest Amazon scam ever recorded in Europe," (the second most lucrative financial scam against Amazon in general), the 22-year-old would fill up the ordered items' boxes with dirt with the exact weight of the product, and then register the item for a return.

(Bloomberg) -- Ever since negative interest rates became a thing, banks have been too afraid to pass them on to retail depositors. That may be about to change.In Scandinavia, where sub-zero rates have been the norm longer than most other places.

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Scam tactics to look out before investing according to my algo trading experience and personal research. This post includes no affiliate links and it is merely informative.

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Raids in India, in co-operation with RCMP, follow CBC Marketplace story on Indian call centres contacting Canadians, claiming to be from CRA and demanding tax payments.