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With this year's Amazon Prime Day set for June 21-22, scammers are already touting "Early Prime Day Deals," says Bolster. Amazon Prime Day represents an opportunity for consumers to find deals and save money on their favorite products.

China's crackdown on cryptocurrencies has reached a new crescendo, with the nation's Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday proclaiming it has arrested over 1000 people and shut down 170 gangs that provided crypto-linked money-laundering services. Others are what China calls "Two cards" scammers, who funnel their ill-gotten gains to acquire phone cards that are shipped outside China, then use call credit stored in the cards to make scam calls back into the Middle Kingdom.

Bitcoin scams have soared over the last seven months. The surge started around October 2020, and the scams are continuing today.

The US Federal Trade Commission says that over $80 million were lost to cryptocurrency investment scams, according to roughly 7,000 reports received since October 2020. The most vulnerable group to this type of scam were consumers aged 20 to 49 who were five times more likely to lose money, with more than half of all investment scam losses they reported being linked to cryptocurrency.

The criminal gang behind the disruptive Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack says it is shutting down operations, but threat hunters believe the group will reemerge with a new name and new ransomware variants. Another potential complication with a DarkSide shutdown is the status of live, ongoing negotiations on ransomware payments and data decryption tools.

Apple's brand new AirTag product got hacked already. Why Dell patched a bunch of driver bugs going back more than a decade.

Trust Wallet and MetaMask wallet users are being targeted in ongoing and aggressive Twitter phishing attacks to steal cryptocurrency funds. MetaMask and Trust Wallet are mobile apps that let you create wallets to store, buy, send, and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs. When users launch MetaMask or Trust Wallet apps for the first time, the app prompts them to create a new wallet.

Twitter scammers are jumping on Elon Musk's hosting of Saturday Night Live to push cryptocurrency scams to steal people's Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin. For the past year, we have been reporting how scammers have been raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars by promoting fake giveaway scams from well-known people or companies, such as Elon Musk, Tesla, and Gemini Exchange.

This home delivery scam arrives in an SMS that lures you to a website, but then instead of stealing your data directly via the phoney website, it sweet-talks you into installing an app. Watch directly on YouTube if the video won't play here.

Cybercriminals target Rogers customers with a new SMS phishing campaign pretending to be refunds for last week's Canada-wide wireless outage. Last week, Rogers suffered a massive outage throughout Canada, preventing users from accessing wireless voice and data services.