India Has A Money Mule Problem – There Are 2.5 Million Of Them
Imagine opening a bank account for a small fee and then turning it over to a complete stranger to move money through it? Well, thats become a big social trend in India as scams soar. Cybercriminals in India are turning ordinary bank accounts into massive pipelines for their stolen cash. And the scale might shock […]
Citi Insider Wired $1.3 Million Then Booked Flight To Nicaragua
Ana Dalila Vega told Secret Service agents she could not meet with them on Thursday or Friday. She said her car was stuck in the shop. She hoped to have it back from the mechanics by the following week. What Vega failed to mention, according to the recently released indictment, was that she had already […]
OnlyFake Boss Arrested For Creating 10,000 Fake Digital IDs
Yurii Nazarenko was 22 years old when he started selling fake passports online for $15 each back in 2020. By the time the FBI caught up with him, his notorious website OnlyFake had produced at least 10,000 fake identification documents and pulled in $1.2 million in cryptocurrency. On February 26, Nazarenko pleaded guilty in a […]
Dealership Insider Fueled Miami’s Notorious Bust Out Ring
The leader of a major bust-out fraud ring has been revealed. And it’s a doozy. Deinier Dominguez was at the center of every deal. As the finance manager at Bomnin Chevrolet and later HGreg Nissan in Miami, he would sit across from buyers, run their credit, and push loan apps to lenders. But on February […]
Hacker With No Skills Used AI To Break Into 600 Companies
A hacker had zero coding skills. He didn’t know how to compile code. He didn’t even know how to launch an attack. But that didn’t stop him from launching a massive attack against more than 600 corporate firewalls across 55 countries in just 39 days. Once in the systems he hacked, he downloaded all of […]
New AI Bots Are Breaking KYC Checks At Industrial Scale
Konstantin Bulatov, the Chief Technology Officer of OCR Studio, has, he says, uncovered a novel use of artificial intelligence that is breaking KYC checks worldwide. He says the new scheme uses AI bots to mass-produce fake “selfie with ID” images and fire them at KYC verification systems by the thousands. The article, which you can […]
Welcome To Drunk “Vibe Extortion” The Latest AI Threat
A cybercriminal recorded a threatening video from his bed while visibly drunk. He read the message word-for-word from his phone screen. The video was sloppy and probably unconvincing, but the script itself sounded great, complete with deadlines, pressure tactics, and professional language that the low-skilled drunk attacker clearly could not have written on his own. […]
Scam Models For Solo Pig Butchering Operators Available
The advertisement on Telegram offers something unique. For those who want to work independently without models for videos, contact me,” it says, promising Asian and European female models available in English, Russian, and Turkish. But this isn’t a casting call for a commercial. It is a recruitment ad for the pig butchering scam industry, posted […]
How A Cambodian Casino Became A Digital Arrest Factory
Portraits of Gandhi hung next to a police station backdrop emblazoned with the Central Bureau of Investigation logo. It was a convincing room designed for video calls. But this wasn’t a government office. It was just one of several mock law enforcement stations inside “My Casino,” a massive scam compound in Cambodia that had become […]
Donkey Scams And Hot Dog Fraud – Google AI Says They’re Real
Somewhere in Google Land, there’s an alternate universe of fraud and scams that you have never heard of before. It’s a world where every fraud scheme you can think of happens. From Donkey scams to clown-smiling scams to snowman scams they are all there and more. The only problem is, it’s not real because Google’s […]
AI Agents Built Social Network – Then Scammers Wrecked It
When Moltbook launched on January 28, 2026, it was a really strange idea. That idea was to build a social network where only AI agents could post, and humans could only watch. It was a smash success – within days, that platform had 1.5 million registered AI agents. But security researchers at Wiz found that […]
CFPB Cracks Down On Credit Washing As Complaints Soar
The CFPB has been used and abused by credit washers for so long, and they are not going to take it anymore. This week they announced several sweeping changes designed to prevent credit washing scammers from filing frivolous complaints. The changes will include: 1) forcing consumers to verify their identity before filing a complaint, 2) […]
I Found 50 Fake Dealer Websites – They All Use The Same Playbook
A farmer in Kentucky wired $45,500 to a dealership that didn’t exist. A woman in Pennsylvania lost $45,000 buying a Lexus she found on CARFAX. Law enforcement agencies across the nation are now issuing urgent warnings as more and more victims are sending wire transfers for tractors, classic cars and heavy equipment that they will […]
The New DoorDash Scam That Made One Dude A Millionaire
When David Smith was arrested, he had five safes in his Stamford, Connecticut apartment. Inside was $733,000 in cash. Police found that money in January 2023 after they responded to a domestic violence call there. They found more than 100 stolen credit cards, two fake IDs, and several cell phones. He had been robbing DoorDash […]
Warning – AI Paystubs Are Here And Its Getting Bad
Deepfakes are bad. Very bad. But something else is brewing, and its not looking good. A new study from Inscribe, a document fraud detection company, found that AI-generated fraudulent documents increased nearly 500% between April and December of 2025. The finding confirms what fraud investigators have feared – the technology that powers chatbots, voice clones […]