Rose Okumura is a voice actor and a content creator. Now she's using her skills to turn to the tables on annoying telephone scammers. It's called scam baiting, which Collins English Dictionary defines ...

A call from someone pretending to be an IRS agent is, for most of us, just part of the furniture of modern digital life. We hang up, we block the number, we move on. But for Ashton Bingham, then an ...

Romance scammers blend emotional manipulation with cybercrime tactics to exploit unsuspecting victims around the world. The Department of Justice recently recovered $8.2 million in Tether — or USDT — ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized over $8.2 million worth of USDT (Tether) cryptocurrency that was stolen via 'romance baiting' scams. Previously referred to as 'pig butchering,' in this ...

Whether we'd like to admit it or not, we fall for scams sometimes. Maybe not we Pandas particularly, but we as a society. According to a report by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and Feedzai, scammers ...

Losses to romance baiting, or pig butchering, scams increased 40% year-on-year (YoY) in 2024 to comprise a third of total crypto fraud revenue, according to Chainalysis. A day before Valentine’s Day, ...