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A newly exposed server has revealed how scammers verified hundreds of thousands of stolen credit cards. Not on shady websites, but through everyday platforms like Amazon and Lyft. The data, uncovered by researchers, shows how carding operations are blending into normal online activity to check whether stolen cards are still
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A former employee at Chick-fil-A allegedly rang up 800 mac and cheese orders from a Chick-fil-A location and refunded them to himself. This full-on scam reportedly cost the chain more than $80,000. According to police in Grapevine, Texas, the former employee, identified as Keyshun Jones, came back behind the
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People will go to great lengths to get away with scams, with some being more outlandish than others. Please file this under "outlandish": three people in California were sentenced for an elaborate insurance fraud that involved dressing up in a bear costume. Staging a crime scene This one
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You might be getting some money from Capital One this summer, and you don’t even have to do anything for it. A $425 million settlement just got approved this week and millions of Capital One customers could be getting paid starting around July 21, all because of how interest
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It sounds like something straight out of a movie, but yes, a real-life "Lego Bandit" exists. A Californian man is accused of stealing Lego sets from the store, taking them home, replacing pieces with pasta, and returning the sets for cash. An elaborate plan to steal Lego It&
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That mini heart drop when you see a message about fines or penalties? Scammers know that feeling very well and they are using it against people. There’s a new wave of texts going around claiming you owe money for unpaid traffic tickets. They look urgent, official, and just believable
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Experts are warning that AI-powered scam calls are getting polished enough to sound personal and convincing, which means the old “I’ll know it when I hear it” method is starting to fall apart. According to them, asking “are you AI?” is useless. But one weird question could trip up
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Crypto was supposed to be the future of money. Fast, borderless, and decentralized. But for a lot of people in 2025, it turned into the fastest way to lose it. A new FBI report says Americans lost $11.36 billion to crypto-related scams last year, a massive jump that now
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A call telling you your grandchild has been in an accident will instantly put anybody’s stomach in knots. Crysta Willis got one of these calls, but it was all a scam. At first, nothing about it seemed off. The caller ID didn’t show a warning. It showed a
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Ordering takeout shouldn’t cost you $10k, but for one woman, ordering fried chicken turned into a full-on financial nightmare. An Atlanta mom says she lost nearly $10,000 within minutes of placing a takeout order from Bonchon. But it didn’t happen because of a bad meal. It was
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A suspicious charge notification isn’t unusual. It’s the kind of thing most people try to fix quickly and move on from. That’s exactly what made this scam almost work on a woman named Dorothy who received a text about a $144 charge tied to Apple Pay. This
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A new phishing campaign is making the rounds, targeting Amazon shoppers with emails that look like routine product recall notices. The hook is usually about a recent purchase possibly being unsafe. Along with a warning to stop using the item, there is usually an offer for a refund or replacement