Scammers are targeting consumers across the country in a clever way that involves technology many of us use every day. We're ...
I took it personally,” Grant Smith tells PEOPLE. “At first I was emotionally invested, and then it kind of switched into more ...
Cybersecurity expert Grant Smith wasn’t about to let it slide when scammers tried bilking his wife through a phony USPS text, ...
"Scambaiting" is when the target of a scam knowingly plays along to waste the scammer's time. Now there's a chatbot that can ...
U.K.-based tech journalist Carl Miller is the host of the Wondery true-crime podcast "Kill List," which tells the saga of a ...
A GoFundMe account is accepting donations to help a Wichita, Kansas woman who fell for a common online scam that began with a ...
Americans lost an estimated $12.5 billion to online criminals in 2023, according to the FBI, including $652 million in losses ...
“The newest member of our fraud-prevention team, Daisy, is turning the tables on scammers–outsmarting and outmaneuvering them ...
Called Daisy, or "dAIsy," the voice-based AI mimics a senior citizen to hold meandering conversations with phone scammers.
British carrier O2 created Daisy (dAIsy), a chatbot with the personality of a grandma who wants to keep phone scammers on the ...
O2 has created an "AI granny" to keep scammers on the call, with the express purpose of wasting as much of their valuable ...
The agency is warning recipients of potential scam calls demanding personal data or even gift cards.