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 ...

Losses to romance baiting, or pig butchering, scams increased 40% year-on-year (YoY) in 2024 to comprise a third of total crypto fraud revenue, according to Chainalysis. A day before Valentine’s Day, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hello, is this Marta?” The man on the phone had an accent that was hard to place, but his English was clear and direct. He introduced himself as Nick. As you might expect of someone in her 80s, Marta ...

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