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Deepfake AI Pastors Are Stealing From Churchgoers: Report

In the name of the Slop God.

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger Jan 5

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Beware Job Offers Via Text as FTC Says ‘Task Scams’ Are Skyrocketing

Never trust someone who says they'll pay you just to like things online... as long as you pay them first.

Privacy & Security Todd Feathers Dec 12

FBI Raids Microbiome Testing Startup uBiome and Boy, Its Online Reviews Sure Aren’t Gonna Help

On Friday, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the uBiome Inc. offices in San Francisco for what is reportedly an investigation into the biotech startup’s billing practices. “I can confirm that special agents from the FBI San Francisco Division are present at 360 Langton Street in San Francisco conducting court-authorized law-enforcement activity,” an…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Apr 26

Trump’s New Acting Attorney General Served on the Advisory Board of a ‘Scam’ Patent Business

President Trump just named Matthew Whitaker as acting U.S. attorney general, replacing now-former Attorney General Jeff Sessions who “resigned” on Wednesday. A dive into Whitaker’s business affairs show he was, as of at least late 2014, involved in a business saddled with serious ethical complaints. Back in 2014, a man named Scott J. Cooper started…

Politics Matt Novak Nov 7

Don’t Fall for This Scam Claiming You Were Recorded Watching Porn

There’s a twisted new sextortion scam going around. Some reports have been shared by Bleeping Computer, Krebs on Security, and TechCrunch of a new scam in which the perpetrators send people emails claiming they know the recipient’s password and have used that password to install malware on their computer and captured a video of them…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Jul 12

Couple Grifts Amazon Out of $1.2 Million in Electronics

Any retailer budgets for broken goods, shoplifting, and other losses, and Amazon is no different. But because of the volume of sales and a customer-forward policy, the gargantuan online marketplace appears to rarely investigate claims of broken or unreceived goods, opting instead to replace or refund—no questions asked. That’s how Indiana couple Erin and Leah…

Tech News Avery Ellis Oct 2

ITT Tech’s Collapse Might Cost Taxpayers Half a Billion Dollars

ITT Technical Institute closed all of its campuses last year, after the Department of Education blocked it from enrolling students on federal aid as part of their crackdown on the for-profit education company. Now, we finally have a sense of how much the ITT Tech’s closure will cost taxpayers. New bankruptcy court documents filed by…

Tech News Michael Nunez Mar 20

DeVry University Pays $100 Million for Deceiving Students

DeVry University, and its parent company DeVry Education Group, have agreed to pay $100 million settlement following a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) crackdown on for-profit schools. As one of the nation’s largest for-profit schools, DeVry was targeted and sued by the FTC in January over claims that it used deceiving ads to recruit prospective students…

Tech News Michael Nunez Dec 16

Wells Fargo Executive Linked To Scam Gets $124.6 Million Payday

Wells Fargo executive Carrie Tolstedt will receive a $124.6 million payday when she retires at the end of this year, despite overseeing the department accused of scamming millions of customers and incurring hundreds of millions in fines. On Thursday, Federal regulators slapped Wells Fargo with $185 million in fines after discovering that employees were guilty…

Tech News Michael Nunez Sep 12

Something Weird Is Going On With Walmart’s Password Reset System

It seems some oddness is afoot at Walmart. A number of people have reported receiving unprompted password recovery emails from an address that originated with the retailer. This afternoon, Gizmodo received a few tips about emails like this from Walmart. Our tipsters provided us with some screenshots of the messages: Meanwhile, if you search “Walmart…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Aug 4

Backer Funds From Kickstarter Campaign Allegedly Stolen to Build a Damn House

Peachy Printer launched on Kickstarter back in September of 2013. It claimed to be the world’s first $100 3D printer and scanner, and raised $651,091 CAD in backer money. Now Rylan Grayston, the company’s CEO, claims that his co-founder David Boe embezzled nearly half of that money, and used it to build himself a new…

Tech News Avery Ellis May 11

The Biggest Online Drug Market Just Vanished, Taking $12 Million With It

Evolution, the most popular online drug market since the Silk Road, has disappeared without warning. Users say $12 million in Bitcoin has also vanished. And it looks like a classic scam. The darknet market, which sells guns, stolen goods, and counterfeits along with pretty much any drug you can think of, gained fans by loading…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Mar 18

Email Scams Are Still Depressingly Effective

It is the Year Of Our Lord two thousand and fourteen, but somehow, nearly half of all people on this email-infested landfill we call ‘Earth’ are still falling for simple phishing scams. The stats come courtesy of a Google study, which looked into the success rate of ‘manual hijacking’ emails, which try and trick users…

Tech News Chris Mills Nov 8

New Netflix Phishing Scam Tricks You Into Calling Fake “Tech Support”

If the screen below has ever popped up as you were supposedly logging into Netflix, we’ve got some bad news for you. No, it’s not your Netflix account—that’s perfectly safe (at least for now). But if you followed the instructions on the screen, you’ve been duped by a new phishing scheme that seems so painfully…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Mar 3

A Woman Who Bought Two iPhones Was Scammed with Two Apples Instead

When you’re looking to buy an Apple iPhone off a classifieds ad, you expect certain things. Like it having a working touchscreen. Like it maybe be in one piece. Like it actually being an Apple iPhone and not… just an apple. A woman made the dear mistake of buying two apples in an iPhone box…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 2

How Chinese Scammers Are Swapping Fake iPhone Parts for the Real Deal

A very ingenious new kind of high-tech scam has been going down in China, where clever thieves are returning fake iPhone components to Apple and claiming they’re broken official parts, receiving genuine Apple-made pieces in return. And making a nice profit in the process. The scam, reported by TechWeb, sees people involved in the mobile…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK Apr 15

These MacBooks and iPads Made from Wood and Duct Tape Are Not Really MacBooks and iPads

People. Especially people of Florida. Listen up. If you get approached to buy a MacBook or iPad in a parking lot, don’t buy it. Even if it’s dirt cheap and a freaking steal and you need a new computer or whatever. Why? Because it might end up as a pile of wood and duct tape.…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 17

A Girl Bought an iPad at Wal-Mart But Inside the Box Was Just a Stack of Notepads

Imagine your excitement as a 15-year-old girl when your Mom brings back an iPad as your birthday gift. Then imagine the shock and horror when you open the box and only see a stack of yellow notepads. That’s what happened to Courtney Akers from Texas. We’ve seen rip off jobs like this before—a laptop turned…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 12

Yep, Kickstarter Is Pretty Much a Scam for Useless Crap

The Onion, as only The Onion can, exposed the cesspool of faux-inventions of Kickstarter by calling the folks who start Kickstarter projects, Internet criminals who “bilk friends and families out of terrible, ill-conceived and unnecessary personal projects”. Yep, pretty much. https://gizmodo.com/were-done-with-kickstarter-5897449 It’s a damn racket that’s been fooling the entire Internet! Enjoy it here:

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 26

Multimillionaire Software Exec Arrested in LEGO-Thieving Bar-Code Scam

Ah, power. You give a person too much and they will abuse it. Such is the case with Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old VP at Palo Alto-based software company SAP Labs, who has been arrested for the nerdiest crime in recent memory. His abuse of power: computer skill-based. It is reported that Langenbach had been using…

Tech News Molly Oswaks May 21

Scam

Deepfake AI Pastors Are Stealing From Churchgoers: Report

Beware Job Offers Via Text as FTC Says ‘Task Scams’ Are Skyrocketing

FBI Raids Microbiome Testing Startup uBiome and Boy, Its Online Reviews Sure Aren’t Gonna Help

Trump’s New Acting Attorney General Served on the Advisory Board of a ‘Scam’ Patent Business

Don’t Fall for This Scam Claiming You Were Recorded Watching Porn

Couple Grifts Amazon Out of $1.2 Million in Electronics

ITT Tech’s Collapse Might Cost Taxpayers Half a Billion Dollars

DeVry University Pays $100 Million for Deceiving Students

Wells Fargo Executive Linked To Scam Gets $124.6 Million Payday

Something Weird Is Going On With Walmart’s Password Reset System

Backer Funds From Kickstarter Campaign Allegedly Stolen to Build a Damn House

The Biggest Online Drug Market Just Vanished, Taking $12 Million With It

Email Scams Are Still Depressingly Effective

New Netflix Phishing Scam Tricks You Into Calling Fake “Tech Support”

A Woman Who Bought Two iPhones Was Scammed with Two Apples Instead

How Chinese Scammers Are Swapping Fake iPhone Parts for the Real Deal

These MacBooks and iPads Made from Wood and Duct Tape Are Not Really MacBooks and iPads

A Girl Bought an iPad at Wal-Mart But Inside the Box Was Just a Stack of Notepads

Yep, Kickstarter Is Pretty Much a Scam for Useless Crap

Multimillionaire Software Exec Arrested in LEGO-Thieving Bar-Code Scam

Apple App Store Experiences Surge in New Apps Amid Vibe Coding Boom

Report Says Software Engineer Job Listings Are Up 30% This Year

Microsoft Says You’re Not Supposed to Take Copilot’s Advice Seriously

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

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Twitter Just Can’t Stop Leaking Movies

The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

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