At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an ...
Picture this; you're minding your business, browsing the latest cat memes, when suddenly, a mysterious message from a stranger lands in your inbox or DMs. It's not the classic junk email from a Middle ...
A Pig in a butcher's outfit, intensely typing on a computer. Today is Halloween, a time for ghouls, goblins and harmless pranks. But in the digital landscape, there’s a new trick with devastating ...
More than 200,000 people in Southeast Asia have been forced to run online scams in recent years, often being enslaved and brutalized, as part of criminal enterprises that have netted billions in ...
Federal agents have quietly pulled off one of the largest financial seizures in American history, taking control of roughly 15 billion dollars in bitcoin tied to a sprawling "pig butchering" ...
A Stuart man was ordered Feb. 4 to pay more than $1.1 million for being the "master trader" of a fraudulent $100 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, court records show. Joshua Nicholas, 30, was ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Do you get unsolicited text messages from people you don’t know? Be forewarned: If you respond, you could be falling for a particularly dangerous online scam that has found victims around the world.
Joe Novak thought he had found love on social media. When the 51-year-old New Jersey father posted on Facebook about the troubles he faces while taking care of a son with celiac disease, a kind, ...
Alvin Camba, assistant professor at the Joseph Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Faculty affiliate at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Zeke Faux, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Former Banking Regulator During GFC, Crypto Policy Since 2016 On Thursday, December 14, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...