fraudsters

In less than a week, three residents of Soligorsk - an electrical mechanic, an accountant and an unemployed city dweller - joined the ranks of victims of cybercrime, losing large sums of money. This was reported in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee...

In the suburbs of Chicago (Illinois), the victim of fraudsters was 85-year-old clergyman Robert Banzin (Robert Banzin). According to local media, he fell for the bait because of the phishing site PayPal. It all started with an email that the reverend received, he believes, from PayPal. At the...

And what Android developers will do next... Google will stop developing an API to maintain the integrity of the web environment (Web Environment Integrity API), a project that has caused a lot of controversy among cybersecurity experts and fighters for the rights of Internet users. The...

The cyber police exposed scammers who, while in jail, sold cars for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of criminal actions, the military suffered. According to law enforcement officers, the "scheme" was organized by two residents of the Sumy region, who are serving their sentences in one...

The Honored Master of Sports was lured out of 700 thousand rubles. The victim of unscrupulous breeding was 25-year-old athlete Anna Shkurdai (pictured). The girl came across a chat in the cart, where they promised to transfer small but real amounts of money for performing some minor tasks on...

Nigeria is still struggling to overcome the electronic banking fraud epidemic that has plagued the country in recent years. According to published data cited by Legit, in the incomplete year 2023 (from January to August), about 9.5 billion Nigerian naira (1.18 billion rubles) were stolen from...

Scientists from London have shown how difficult it is for people to recognize artificial speech. Deepfakes are synthetic media that mimic the voice or appearance of a real person. They can be used for manipulation and deception and are one of the main threats associated with the development of...

What's it? Fraud-translated from English means "fraud". Antifraud is a system that tracks illegal actions and blocks them. They are most often used to secure financial transactions, such as payment confirmation via a text message code. How do they work? A well-configured anti-fraud tool does...

Buyers can use different tricks to get the item, but not pay for it. Or special software to steal money from your customers' cards. In the first case, you will lose money, in the second, you will also lose your reputation. Fraudsters are stopped by anti-fraud systems: they understand that...