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The Little Black Book of Scams

Guide to Scams

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Marcel Vautour, subject of a chapter of my Faces of Fraud, is Canada's most infamous romance scammer. This is an increasingly prevalent and harmful crime. Victims can be male or female, straight or gay. The Unbreaking Project offers support to all love fraud survivors

#fraud #scams #canada #romance

Credit card application fraud is rising in Canada, with Canadians aged 56 - 65 the most frequently targeted group as criminals seek higher credit limits

Personal info used in these schemes comes from phishing emails, fake text messages and impersonation calls

#fraud #scams #canada #crime #scammers

Will Aiden Pleterski - the self-described "Crypto King" aka "Crypto Crook" - be found guilty at next week's trial? I'll be there to find out

This last story for my fraud book is full of wild details: kidnapping, an NBA MVP, Kick livestreams, Ferraris & a huge Ponzi

#fraud #scams #canada #truecrime

Got curious and searched cl0q for crypto giveaway. 34 results, and one jumped out: spacex-ipo.xyz, a textbook fake-Elon-Musk SpaceX IPO scam. Its cl0q profile shows it even serves SpaceX real favicon. cl0q.com/site/spacex-ipo.xyz What should I hunt next? #osint #scams #crypto

#scams #google @google is in on the scams. You may have seen this ad presented to you. It is a fake shop scamming people. I reported it to Google, but corporate only cares about money; Google didn't take it down. They are in on the scams. Their security group is so incompetent that they allow this.

More AI Scams to be aware of....

#vtuber #IT #Scams #AI #safe

🕵️ It's Friday! What suspicious calls, texts, or emails did you get? Tell us! 📱 #ScamAlert #Scams #ScamAware101

Michelle Kathleen Lawson discussed the hardships of farming with the family that employed her for almost two decades while secretly taking from their accounts, a court has heard. #scams #fraud #courts

J&T Express Warns Against Fake Job Posts Leading to Phishing Scams

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

#scams #phishing #jobposts

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Lei Zhou was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison after prosecutors said he used a stolen identity to finance a 2021 Chevrolet Corvette and submitted a forged $14,000 down-payment check. The Corvette was among at…

#auto #news #newsupdate #corvette #lawsuit #offbeatnews #police #scams #usa

Most scams are not recognized by a phrase or a logo. They are recognized by pressure that tries to stop you from verifying.

Urgency, secrecy, impersonation, unusual payment: pause, end the contact, and check through a separate channel.

#ScamAwareness #Scams

"Leaks, harvests, harvesting schemes using databases are frequent occurrences that lead to contact lists available for outbound telemarketing promotions, cold calls, SMS text messages. Many are now using GetTempNumber..."

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#spam #privacy #scams 😓

Leoben warns of scam text messages about heating subsidy #heatingsubsidy #Leoben #scams

Employment scam victims tripled at financial firms in 21 countries

#cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews #scams #jobscams #fraudprevention #fintech

AI-driven doctor scams target the Mandarin-speaking community.
Evidence: Voice cloning, $50k losses, police warnings
#Aletheia #Scams #AI

Employment scam victims surged 258% across 370+ financial firms in 21 countries. Nine in 10 scam sessions start on mobile, while investment scams cost the most. #BioCatch #Nigeria #Scams