Nobody likes being scammed, so we partnered with Kitboga and ThreatLocker to waste scammers' time by building a frustrating and secure computer. 'Plainly violates 2nd Amendment': DOJ targets gun law ...

In December 2024, a scammer who believed he was minutes away from stealing millions of dollars in Bitcoin instead collapsed into panic when his carefully staged con turned against him. What unfolded ...

A content creator has trapped scammers for approximately 4,000 hours in an infinite maze pretending to be a way to redeem Bitcoin from their victims. Scammers find themselves attempting to solve ...

The good guys have an army of their own now. I met the people (and machines) using AI to scam the scammers. Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism ...

It was almost an hour into our Google Meet call. I was interviewing Kitboga, a popular YouTube scam baiter with nearly 3.7 million subscribers, known for humorously entrapping fraudsters in common ...

President Donald Trump sat down with ABC News' Terry Moran in the Oval Office. President Donald Trump exclusively sat down with ABC News on Tuesday for the first broadcast interview marking the ...

For scammers as much as anybody, time is money. The more time a scammer spends talking to someone without taking their money or information, the less efficient their operation is. If a scammer gets ...

Everybody has their own way of dealing with phone scammers. I tried different tactics. When someone tried to sell me an extended car warranty I played “the dumbest man in the world.” When they asked ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Scambusters Jim ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Scambusters Jim ...

Hello, is this Marta?” The man on the phone had an accent that was hard to place, but his English was clear and direct. He introduced himself as Nick. As you might expect of someone in her 80s, Marta ...