17-Year-Old Who Made 11,900 Fraudulent Refunds Heads To Jail
A Chinese Teenager is headed to jail after submitting close to 12,000 fraudulent refunds after he discovered a loophole in an e-commerce refund system. He turned that loophole into a $680,000 payday before anyone noticed. I Guess You Could Call This A Real Glitch The teen whose last name is Lu found out that a […]
AI Search Poisoning: The Scam You Never Heard Of
Alex Rivlin thought he was pretty tech-savvy. The Las Vegas real estate developer had used AI for years and had come to trust it. But when he needed a shuttle number for his Royal Caribbean cruise last August, he did what millions of people do every day: he asked Google’s AI for the customer service […]
Scammed By A Vendor – The Red Flags Were Everywhere
My wife thought she had found the perfect vendor for a rush order she needed at her busy coffee shop. She wanted canopies and vehicle wraps to promote her brand, and she needed them before the end of the year. It was December 24th, so she had to move fast, and maybe that was the […]
Ghost Cars: How A Shady Dealer Sold $2 Million In Fake Cars
Adrian Knight seemed to have a talent for selling cars. The only problem was most of them never existed. For years, he ran a phantom car operation out of a Ace Auto Sales, a dealership that he owned in Chesapeake Virginia. He submitted loan applications for luxury vehicles to credit unions, pocketed the cash and […]
No Brakes, No Limits. Our Fraud Predictions For 2026
2025 was the year that broke our trust. It was the year fraud went “invisible.” We knew AI would change everything. We didn’t expect it to erase the line between real and fake so thoroughly and with such force. Global scam losses crossed $1 trillion. Deepfake attacks surged 3,000%. Millions of people suffered. Some even […]
The Klarna Glitch That Isn’t: Inside The New Viral Trend
A wave of new viral glitch videos is flooding TikTok and Telegram and its promising viewers free electronics from Best Buy. In reality, scammers are using stolen identities to open fraudulent accounts on Klarna’s Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) service and claiming its a quick and easy hack to get “free” iPhones, iPads, electronics and […]
The AI Model That Scammed My Mom Wants A New Job
I was scrolling through a popular HR Channel on Telegram that caters to the scam bosses looking for talent. The channel is called – Zhongshu HR Talent Reserve Limited Company – and hundreds of ladies and men post videos of themselves seeking to work as AI models for scam companies. You can read about AI […]
Shaq’s Missing Range Rover Exposes Growing Car Theft Scam
Shaq O’Neal was waiting for his custom Range Rover to arrive in Louisiana. But unfortunately the $180,000 luxury car vanished somewhere between Atlanta and Baton Rouge and no one appears to know where it is. Experts now suspect that his Range Rover was caught up in a new transport fraud scheme that they’re calling a […]
Watch How The Mysterious Ghost Tab Scam Works
Have you ever wondered what happens after you put your credit card information into one of those Toll Road Scam phishing sites? Well, Gary Warner from Intelligence for Good just showed how the scammers are use those card details to drain your bank account without ever touching your wallet. The scam works through an app […]
Deepfake Fraud Testimony Caught In Court By Judge
The video looked real at first, but to Judge Victoria Kolakowski something just seemed off. A witness named Geri Haas appeared to be giving video testimony that could would help a couple win a $8.7 million lawsuit against their property management company. But it just looked weird. The judge watched the video again. The woman […]
Real Estate Agents Targeted In Deepfake Identity Theft Scam
A Denver real estate agent avoided becoming the victim of a sophisticated identity theft scheme which tried to capture her image and a video during a concocted Zoom call. The attempt is part of a growing use of artificial intelligence targeting real estate agents and brokerages across the country. The deepfakes are being used in […]
Most AI Chatbot’s Will Help Scammers Defraud Victims
Fred Heiding spends his time at Harvard researching how criminals exploit technology but even he was surprised at how easily he was able to create convincing phishing emails using tech from the biggest AI companies in the world. Six AI chatbots, including those from OpenAI, Meta, and Google, generated phishing emails so convincing, that 12 […]
Hundreds Of Target Employees Fired For “Loan Fraud” Glitch
Another day, another glitch. Target has reportedly fired hundreds of employees at a distribution center in Chicago after an internal investigation revealed that workers had exploited a glitch in the company’s healthcare loan program. The fraud apparently cost Target about $1.3 million according to reports. Employees Took Advantage Of “Glitch” In Targets Medical Loan Benefit […]
Inside The Scam Busting AI Bots Used By Commonwealth
Did you miss the Fraudology Live event with Karisse Hendrick where we went behind the scenes with Apate.AI? Check out the full webinar where we dig into how the AI bots work and how they are able to collect valuable information on scams directly from the scammers in realtime.
New Viral ATM Fraud Glitch Targeted Kids In New York
Another insane Tik Tok fraud case hit New York City this month. This time it’s called the SYEP Method and very sadly, it targeted kids working for the New York Summer Youth Employment Program. These are some of the poorest kids in the city. The scheme closely follows the pattern of two other major fraud […]