Chanise Coyne faces up to 20 years in prison.

A fake child modeling agent swindled millions from a couple, pretending to build their daughter's modeling dream while gambling their money away.

Fraudsters are using the promise of fake roles to trick job-seekers out of money, personal information or both, and with the help of AI they are more convincing than ever. But there are ways to spot t ...

A teacher in Wisconsin recently got a call with an intriguing offer: a promise to have 80 percent of her federal student loans forgiven — for a fee. The teacher, Lauren, owes about $60,000 in debt ...

The global AI communication industry achieves a landmark milestone as CHAKEN.AI Phone Agent officially launches worldwide.

A fake repository mimicking OpenAI’s Privacy Filter on Hugging Face accumulated ~244,000 downloads before being removed. It delivered a multi-stage Rust infostealer ...

Phishing scams have always tried to trick you into clicking malicious links, often relying on scare tactics — fake bank alerts, IRS threats, parking tickets, the works. The new playbook is a little ...

HOUSTON — A Cypress woman says she lost $90,000 after what started as a computer pop-up warning turned into a weeks-long scam involving a person pretending to be a federal agent. Cindy Finney says she ...

Mother’s Day is both a popular and lucrative holiday in the United States. The National Retail Federation’s annual survey found that in 2025, 84% of Americans planned to celebrate the holiday, and ...

Hackers are spoofing Paperless Post, Evite and Punchbowl to creep into your hard drive. By Steven Kurutz When John Lantigua, a retired journalist in Miami Beach, checked his email one recent morning, ...

Not all of the schemes were convincing, and the models sometimes got confused, started spouting gibberish that would give away the scam, or baulked at being asked to swindle someone, even for research ...

Scammers hijack accounts and send fake invites that look real, tricking you into logging in and handing over your email and password. Once you click, they can take over your account, access your ...