Portugal Scams 2026: Three in Four Adults Hit, and the Phone Number Is Lying
More than three quarters of Portuguese adults encountered a scam in the past year and 9% lost money or data. Tax authority phishing arrives on schedul...
Scam Alerts & Articles
347 articles on scam awareness, fraud prevention, and consumer protection.
The Second Wave: FTC Warns Scammers Are Hunting People Who Already Lost Money
In an alert published August 3, the FTC called refund and recovery scams 'the worst of the absolute worst' — fraud aimed squarely at people who have a...
Greece Scams 2026: When Fraud Becomes a Daily Reality
Greek police recorded 5,117 fraud cases in twenty months, and the electronic share of them jumped 40% year on year. The Bank of Greece logged nearly 4...
Sri Lanka Scams 2026: The Scam Centre Invasion Nobody Planned For
Squeezed out of Myanmar and Cambodia, transnational scam networks went looking for a new home — and found one in Sri Lanka. Police arrested more than ...
Scam Reports Are Up 62% This Year — and AI Is the Reason Why
The Better Business Bureau has logged more than 81,000 scam reports so far in 2026 — a 62% jump over the same point last year. Employment scams double...
Ivory Coast Scams 2026: The Brouteurs Who Turned Shame Into a Business Model
Côte d'Ivoire inherited West Africa's advance-fee legacy and rebuilt it around something faster and crueler: sextortion. A network run out of Abidjan ...
The 48-Hour Window: How the FBI Froze $679 Million in Stolen Wire Transfers — and Why Most Victims Never Use It
Almost every scam story ends the same way: the money is gone. But in 2025 the FBI's Recovery Asset Team froze $679 million of it — a 58% success rate ...
The Justice Department Didn't Indict Anyone. It Sued the Money.
On July 21, 2026, federal prosecutors filed five lawsuits in Washington, D.C. The defendants weren't people — they were piles of Tether. With the actu...
It Almost Got a National TV Reporter: Inside July 2026's Bank and Government Impersonation Wave
A CBS News correspondent spent over an hour on the phone with a fake Bank of America fraud investigator before something snapped him out of it. He was...
Vietnam Scams 2026: How an Industrialised Fraud Machine Runs Through the Cambodia Compound Nexus
Vietnam sits on both sides of Southeast Asia's fraud economy — a source of victims lured into Cambodian scam compounds and, increasingly, a target mar...
Google's Mid-2026 Fraud Advisory: Four Scam Trends Rewriting the Rules of Online Deception
Google's mid-2026 fraud advisory reads like a field report from the front lines of a $580 billion crime wave. Phishing kits that steal your session co...
'I Couldn't Stop Crying': Ontario Woman Loses $83,000 After Deepfake Mark Carney Videos Push a Crypto Scam
Deborah Friesen was watching craft videos online when an ad appeared: Canada's Prime Minister, on camera, promoting a can't-miss crypto platform. The ...