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Attackers are piggybacking off the booming market for meal-kit delivery services since the pandemic, and sending SMS phishing messages doctored up to look like they're legitimate correspondence from popular brand names - including HelloFresh and Gousto. "Data breaches, for example, have made it easier for scammers to access people's full names and phone numbers as details are made public.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that scammers actively target the vulnerable families of missing persons attempting to extort them using information shared on social media. "These actors identify missing persons through social media posts and gather information about the missing person and family to legitimize their ransom demands without ever having physical contact with the missing person," the FBI said.

Let's explore a few scenarios and how AI and biometrics can help uncover and fight fraud. Without an AI-powered fraud prevention platform and biometric authentication, this type of fraud could easily go unnoticed.

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.

Bernard found a constant stream of new marks by offering extraordinarily generous finders fees to investment brokers who could introduce him to companies seeking an infusion of cash. "Perhaps the leading reason for acquiring an aged entity in general is credibility," explains TBA & Associates, a company co-registered in the UK and New Zealand that has created hundreds of shelf companies for sale, including Hempton Business Management LLP in 2017.

We look into Apple's recent emergency updates that closed off four in-the-wild browser bugs. We explain how the infamous "Flubot" home delivery scam works and how to stop it.

The account information for almost 22 million ParkMobile customers is now in the hands of hackers and scammers after the data was released for free on a hacking forum. On March 26th, 2021, ParkMobile issued a security notification on their website stating that one of their services was hacked and unauthorized people gained access to customer data.

Nothing attracts a scammer more than money, and with the NFT craze generating a ton of sales, threat actors are trying to capitalize on it. Ver the past year, NFTs have reached mainstream attention as artists sell their digital art for cryptocurrency at popular websites such as Rarible and OpenSea.

A Nigerian email scammer based in New York was on Tuesday sentenced to 40 months in prison, and ordered to pay back $2.7m in stolen money. As opposed to the infamous Nigerian email scams where people pretended to be heirs to fortunes and devised various ways to get victims to send them money to access their funds, the scam run by Eke and three other Nigerian conspirators was significantly more sophisticated, the indictment states [PDF].

Cybercrooks claim to speak from a higher authority than just a missed home delivery. Sometimes they masquerade as an official government body, complete with all the right logos, the right terminology and even a realistic-looking website carefully cloned from the real deal.