The scam baiter pretends to be a victim and tells the scammer a parcel was handed to another person. The act makes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was almost an hour into our Google Meet call. I was interviewing Kitboga, a popular YouTube scam baiter with nearly 3.7 million ...

Apate’s 200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ are so good at scam baiting, the company has a monthly KPI for how many F-bombs scammers drop at the infuriating bots. Australian tech firm Apate deploys a vast array ...

Alleged Nigerian scammers have been captured in an expose detailing the moment they were attempting to defraud a victim of ...

Romance baiting scams build emotional bonds over weeks before steering victims toward fake cryptocurrency investments. A recent study shows that most of this work consists of repeatable text exchanges ...

Scam calls have become a major financial threat, costing Americans billions of dollars annually. Romance scams, fake IRS calls, and phony purchase confirmations are just some of the tactics employed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not long ago, Monica Cotelingham found herself stuffing cash into a Bitcoin machine at a gas station in suburban Maryland and ...

There may be no better target for a prank than a scammer. That’s exactly what Rosie Okomura does. Known online as IRL Rosie, she’s part of a growing group of creators who spend their time calling ...

Who are scam baiters, and why do they bother trying to give scammers the runaround? Ars explores the flourishing communities of scam baiters who help each other do everything they can to waste ...

With 23% of America’s 52 billion robocalls categorized as scams, I feel like I’m gambling every time I decide to answer a call from an unknown number. And if it’s not you being taken for a “sucker,” ...