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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.

How scammers copied a government website almost to perfection. What to do about those fake "Bug" hunters who ask for payment for finding "Vulnerabilities" that aren't.

Tech support scammers are pretending to be from Microsoft, McAfee, and Norton to target users with fake antivirus billing renewals in a large-scale email campaign. While browsing the web, most people at one time or another have been redirected to a tech support scam web site that pretends your computer is infected and then prompts you to dial a displayed phone number.

New York's Department of Financial Services warns of an ongoing series of attacks resulting in the theft of personal information belonging to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. Tactics used to steal New Yorkers' private info.