Artificial-intelligence tools have become good enough at fabricating realistic video that the FBI is urging people to confirm the identity of anyone contacting them through a second, independent ...

Your phone rings. It's your son's voice. Panicked. He says he's been in a car accident. He hurt someone. He's about to be arrested. He needs $15,000 wired before the end of the day, and please, don't ...

Criminals running romance scams have added a new weapon to their playbook: real-time deepfake video calls that let them pose as someone else on camera, pass visual “proof of identity” checks, and keep ...

AI is threatening to replace human workers in some fields, and rightfully, many people are furious that they’re going to be replaced by lines of code. Count scumbag scam artists among them, as a ...

I’ve noticed an uptick in scam emails that get past Gmail’s spam filters over the past few years. As an author, the emails I get are usually from so-called book clubs, filled with empty praise for my ...

Consumers who have already lost money to fraud are being targeted again — this time by criminals pretending to be FBI agents offering to help recover their funds. In the scammers’ world, the tactic is ...