A Chinese national who scammed $27 million from 2,000 elderly Americans and was famously caught red-handed in a viral YouTube ...

Leslie Pickett lost over $10,000 to a deepfake scam after a fake Jon Bon Jovi account on Instagram used AI videos to build trust over months.

Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them? In May 2024, Pooja Shali, an anchor for India ...

AI Cyber Fraud Alert 2026: As artificial intelligence becomes more widely used, cybercriminals are adopting increasingly ...

A Filipino woman thought she had found love with Dubai’s charismatic crown prince after weeks of flirtatious messages and intimate video calls. Instead, she became the latest victim of an increasingly ...

FaceTime allows iPhone users not only to talk to someone but to actually see them as they engage in conversation. But, as criminals do with many helpful features, they use them to conduct a scam.

Avast has expanded its scam protection tools with the launch of Deepfake Guard on Windows, and the wider international availability of Avast Scam Guardian on mobile devices. The updates focus on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Undercover deputies arrested a man in Michigan during a sting operation involving an alleged scam to defraud an elderly woman out ...

She gave love a chance. A scammer gave it a bad name. For months, Leslie Pickett thought she was talking to Jon Bon Jovi, the rock star she had adored since she was 14. The man behind the screen ...

Whether we were ready for it or not, generative AI technology has circulated far and wide across the internet. Most of the major tech brands are pushing their own AI-powered tools and assistants, and ...