Neowin News Feed for: Scamming

FBI: Scammers now using AI voices to impersonate government officials

David Uzondu — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:20:02 +0000

Generative AI is powerful, but it's also being misused for scams and misinformation. The FBI has issued a PSA warning about deepfake audio impersonating government officials. Read more...

Realistic-looking fake Ryzen 7800X3D that don't even have CPUs inside are selling

Sayan Sen — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 15:54:01 +0000

Beware! A realistic-looking fake AMD Ryzen 7800X3D has been unearthed, and it does not even have an actual CPU inside. Read more...

Accidentally activated Airplane mode saved this grandma $21,500 in the last second

Martin Hodás — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 16:49:06 +0000

An 85-year-old woman fell victim to a vishing scam. A fake relative convinced her to hand him cash. However, an Airplane mode helped to stop the ongoing scam right before they met in person. Read more...

The FCC is finally requiring wireless companies to block scam text messages

John Callaham — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:02:01 +0000

The new regulations from the FCC will require that wireless providers block text messages to mobile phones from numbers "that are unlikely to transmit text messages" like ones that are not used. Read more...

Study: ChatGPT fails to beat humans at phishing mail scams, at least until GPT-4

Sayan Sen — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:48:05 +0000

A social experiment was conducted by a security research firm pitting humans against ChatGPT. This test simulated writing of phishing scam mail and human beings have emerged victorious, for now. Read more...

Beware: Microsoft Edge found serving malicious tech support scam ads

Sayan Sen — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:34:01 +0000

Microsoft Edge has been found to be serving malicious tech support scam ads. While the ads appear harmless from a distance, they are designed to redirect targets to malicious domains. Read more...

Beware: Tech support scammers are out to get you using Microsoft-branded USB drives

Sayan Sen — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:02:02 +0000

Microsoft tech support scammers are at it again, doing what they do best, scamming people. A campaign has been discovered which uses counterfeit Microsoft Office-branded USB drives to fool victims. Read more...

Twitter claims that a social engineering attack led to the spread of the cryptocurrency scam

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:44:01 +0000

The social media website has responded to last night's hack stating that the attack was socially engineered and targeted some Twitter employees with access to internal tools and systems. Read more...

Facebook charges $100 to send a message, apparently

Paul Ferson — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:32:26 +0000

Talent agent Micah Johnson was able to screencap some very unusual activity from Facebook. The social network wanted to charge $100 to deliver a message as part of a new counter-spam initiative. Read more...

Microsoft responds to new Xbox Live account scamming claims

John Callaham — Sat, 26 May 2012 20:24:27 +0000

Microsoft has said that new reports on how Xbox Live accounts are highjacked by scammers, who use a method of online and phone-based social engineering, are "invalid and out-of-date." Read more...