Tired of getting random calls from strangers,
The world of social media, while brimming with cat videos, family photos, and friendly banter, also harbors a sinister side. This darker realm is teeming with swindlers and scam artists, cunningly concealed behind the masks of familiar faces.
In this modern-day game of digital deception, these fraudsters are continuously inventing new ways to exploit the unsuspecting user. Take the case of Jackson, California’s, Rich, who is sharing his unsettling experience with us.
“Several months ago, I received a text from
Online scammers are exploiting the ULEZ expansion on Facebook to lure unwilling victims into parting with cash for luxury cars they will never see.
Fraudsters are copying the photos and details from real car adverts on sites such as Auto Trader, Gumtree and eBay and posting them on Facebook Marketplace.
The legitimate-looking posts promise top-end cars such as BMWs, Audis and Mercedes for knock-down prices, usually around £5,000, under the guise of having acquired them at ‘auction’.
Many of the
Online scammers are using platforms such as TikTok to sell dangerous fake weight-loss drugs to desperate diabetes patients hit by a medication shortage, as England’s prescription watchdog faces further pressure to approve a breakthrough jab.
In trials, a third of type 2 diabetics on the new drug, tirzepatide, shed more than 20 per cent of their body weight after just over a year and saw their blood sugars brought in check. The average person with obesity weighing 16.5 st (105
In March, as she planned for an upcoming trip to France, Amy Kolsky, an experienced international traveler who lives in Bucks County, Pa., visited Amazon.com and typed in a few search terms: travel, guidebook, France. Titles from a handful of trusted brands appeared near the top of the page: Rick Steves, Fodor’s, Lonely Planet. Also among the top search results was the highly rated “France Travel Guide,” by Mike Steves, who, according to an Amazon author page,
A business owner had £10,000 stolen from his business account by scammers pretending to be Monzo, and the challenger bank didn’t acknowledge the fraud for five weeks.
James – not his real name – opened a business account with Monzo at the beginning of the year without complaint.
But in late June, he was contacted by scammers pretending to be from Monzo’s fraud department.
Fraudsters took £10,000 from my small business and Monzo ignored me for weeks
They told James
Hold on to your high heels, ladies and gents. There’s a new trend sweeping the cyber world, and it’s less glamorous than it sounds. As the glittery haze of the “Barbie” movie frenzy continues to enchant viewers globally, the underbelly of the internet is having a field day. The villains of the story? Crafty cyber scammers are capitalizing on the popularity of this trend to snatch your hard-earned money right out of your digital wallets.
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Criminals are running ‘scam schools’ on the internet, teaching budding swindlers how to steal bank details and use them to splurge on major retailers’ goods.
Conmen sell detailed step-by-step guides — one named the ‘Fraud Bible’ — and individual online tutorials to help new scammers cash in on the multimillion-pound black market trade, an undercover Mail investigation has found.
Students learn how to send spam text messages, purporting to be from companies such as the Royal Mail and PayPal, which
