Tag: Scams
Online romance scams: Research reveals scammers’ tactics – and how to...
Fangzhou Wang, University of Texas at Arlington
In the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” victims exposed notorious con artist...
AI-generated spam may soon be flooding your inbox – and it...
John Licato, University of South Florida
Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of...
Voice deepfakes are calling – here’s what they are and how...
Matthew Wright, Rochester Institute of Technology and Christopher Schwartz, Rochester Institute of Technology
You have just returned home after...
Insurance fraud costs $309 billion a year – nearly $1,000 for...
Michael Skiba, Colorado State University Global
CC BY-ND
What would you do with an extra...
Older Americans are given the wrong idea about online safety –...
Nora McDonald, University of Cincinnati and Helena M. Mentis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Recently, the U.S. Social Security...
How cybercriminals turn paper checks stolen from mailboxes into bitcoin
David Maimon, Georgia State University
While cybercrime gets a lot of attention from law enforcement and the media these days, I’ve been documenting a less...
Does ignoring robocalls make them stop? Here’s what we learned from...
Sathvik Prasad, North Carolina State University and Bradley Reaves, North Carolina State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big...
Why ‘Nigerian Prince’ scams continue to dupe us
Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College
With cryptocurrency fraud and IRS scams making headlines, I had thought Nigerian email schemes were a thing of the past,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
