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Lacoste is using AI tech Vrai to detect counterfeit returns. Return fraud costs retailers billions, with billions lost globally. Amazon and other retailers face scams exploiting return policies ...
Fraudsters can gain unauthorized access to a person’s digital wallet through phishing scams, malware, fake apps and websites and social engineering tactics to to make transactions.
Deep Fake Scams A deep fake is when someone mimics another person to create a video or audio message that looks and sounds like the real person. This is where AI is getting scary good.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...
Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans.
Scam Interceptors is a British factual television programme about Internet fraud. Inspired by a 2020 episode of Panorama featuring ethical hacker Jim Browning , the programme shows a television team (including presenters Rav Wilding and Nick Stapleton, Browning and others) as they monitor and intervene in scams in progress.
A top scam of 2021, the fake invoice scam, is still happening in 2022.