An officer with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is accused of posing as a landlord to dupe prospective renters.Burban Pierre, an 11-year veteran of the department, operated the scheme over a four-month via Craigslist, according to a report from New York Daily News. Pierre would advertise his own rented basement apartment, roping in…
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Select group of countries to fight cybercrime, Coinbase victimized by 2FA error a text messaging scam and more.Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday October 4th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing writer on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.Thirty countries have been invited by the United States to meet virtually this month to find ways to fight cybercrime. President…
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Everyone knows the financial market is a tricky one. There are so many different types of investments to choose from, and it can be hard to know which ones will work out best for you. It’s even harder because there are so many scams around these days! That’s why I’m writing this honest Webull review…
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iPhone owners have put up with a lot this year, from factories of scam apps and repeated examples of Apple ignoring security threats to the company’s work with foreign governments and its new CSAM detection system, which has proved to be a lightning rod of controversy. So if you were already thinking about quitting your…
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Crypto fraudsters have run amok in India, dispossessing people of millions in rupees, and at times their entire life’s savings. In India, individuals are increasingly becoming victims of scams, like the most recent one, where a male impersonating a woman has claimed to be a crypto expert, offering to invest crypto, and even offered people…
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Former President Donald Trump has expressed that a bill demanding a 2020 election audit in Texas, a state that he already won, will “quickly” pass through the state Senate.Trump defeated President Joe Biden in Texas by a more than 5 percent margin. Regardless, the former president and some of his allies have baselessly claimed that…
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The Joe Biden administration is in total chaos. That’s been the running theme for months now. From the deadly disaster in Afghanistan to the humanitarian crisis at the border to the current disarray on Capitol Hill, incompetence has reigned, and we’ve learned exactly what 50 years of “experience” in Washington gets the country. Of course,…
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has laid out its plans to stop both SIM swapping attacks and robocalls in an effort to protect US smartphone users from fraud and identity theft.For those unfamiliar, SIM swapping is a technique used by an attacker in which they convince a mobile carrier to transfer a victim’s phone number…
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AMSTERDAM, Oct. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — According to a new study by ScamAdviser, of 4,300+ consumers, scammers reach nearly everybody. 62% of the survey participants are certain that they have been exposed to a scam in the last year. The main reason consumers get scammed? Hubris! There is a huge gap between how good consumers…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The SEC has identified more bank accounts linked to the META 1 scam A new report highlights the agency’s desire to further investigate “the flow of investor funds” META 1 is still operating despite an SEC emergency stop order in 2020 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has identified further bank…
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