Overseers of two programs to compensate victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme have announced $679 million of new payouts, ahead of Friday's 12th anniversary of the now-imprisoned swindler's arrest.

Apple is being sued for allegedly refusing to help those who have fallen victim to a iTunes gift card scam. An 11-count class action lawsuit has been filed against the company. Apple is accused of lying when it says that there is no way to trace or refund the value of the cards. There are a large number of scams which involve pre-paid gift cards like store cards and iTunes gift cards. Here’s how the FTC describes them.

Florida man, His 3 Sons Who Sold Toxic Bleach As COVID-19 Miracle Cure Charged. The novel coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 11 million people, claiming more than 526,000 lives across the world and people are becoming desperate in search for the cure. Earlier, the World Health Organization has acknowledged there is emerging evidence that the coronavirus can be spread by tiny particles suspended in the air, BBC reported

The most recent iteration of a widespread government imposter scam has bilked thousands of Americans out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

A fake Bitcoin scam, with Elon Musk’s likeness at the helm, has reportedly raked in over $2 million.

Knowledgebase Phone Scams Reverse Mortgage Scams Reverse Mortgage Scams A reverse mortgage, aka home equity conversion mortgage (HECM,) is a loan product that allows a homeowner to access the property’s unencumbered value. It can be a useful way for senior citizens to increase their income in retirement. According to the FBI and the Office of …

Knowledgebase Tech & Device Scams Identifying Malware/Viruses Scams Definition of Malware and Virus Scams Most people these days use computers of some sort to store their most precious personal information and transact their most vital transactions, even if just a smartphone. This has given the ill-intended incredible motivation to break into people’s digital worlds and …

Have you been missing something amid the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders? No, not human contact. Not even toilet paper. Robocalls. Industry experts say robocalls are way down — scam calls as well as nagging from your credit-card company to pay your bill. The coronavirus pandemic has inflicted millions of job losses, and scammers have not been immune.

Have you been missing something amid the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders? No, not human contact. Not even toilet paper. Robocalls. Industry experts say robocalls are way down — scam calls as well as nagging from your credit-card company to pay your bill. The coronavirus pandemic has inflicted millions of job losses, and scammers have not been immune.

People are struggling right now. They may be out of work. They may just be bored, at home, while trying to get through this pandemic. But not Kenneth Copeland. The televangelist who said in mid-March that God told him the pandemic would “be over much sooner than you think” (but still wants you to tithe even if you’ve lost your job) and who recently delivered a prayer that said COVID-19 is “finished,” offered a different message to his gullible followers yesterday.

As a kid growing up in northern Utah, Chet Olsen would often take his older brother’s shotgun shells, empty out the pellets, and spread them across a flat surface. He would then guide the pellets around, pretending that each one was a sheep he had to tend to. Olsen, now 62, has a salt-and-pepper mustache that accents his serious demeanor, and his boots display telltale signs of a lifetime of hard, hands-on work.

The man who hacked into a criminal call centre to expose scammers at work.

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.

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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.