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 […]
AI Scammers And Their Sketch Portraits Are All The Rage
Jim thought the pencil sketch he received from a woman he was dating online was proof that she really loved him. The black-and-white drawing showed the two of them together, with her resting her head on his shoulder. It arrived on his WhatsApp messages along with her holding a sign that said, “I Love You […]
Fake Police Stations: Scam Centers Turn To Terror Tactics
When Thai Soldiers broke down the doors of an abandoned building near the Cambodian border last week, they found something surprising – a fully decorated police station with the official seal of Shanghai’s Public Security Bureau and a marble reception desk that had the word “POLICE” plastered on the front. This was not a real […]
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 […]