Hardware The Web Nvidia RTX 5080 Amazon scam sees RTX 5060 Ti passed off as the $1,400 card The fake card was identified by its single 8-pin power connector By Rob Thubron, January 21, 2026, 6:16 AM
Security The Web Americans lost $330 million to Bitcoin ATM scams last year, FBI says The FBI said the rise is "not slowing down" By Rob Thubron, January 2, 2026, 8:13 AM 8 comments
Hardware Gaming After getting rocks instead of an RTX 5080, this buyer finally got a replacement – and a commemorative tattoo The end of a rocky road By Rob Thubron, December 31, 2025, 10:58 AM
Hardware The Web Amazon sold a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM kit that turned out to be DDR4 in disguise Another return scam slips through Amazon Warehouse By Rob Thubron, December 22, 2025, 9:01 AM
Gaming Hardware RAM scammer swaps DDR5 modules for DDR2 and metal weights Shortages pull RAM economics into graphics card territory By Daniel Sims, December 16, 2025, 5:28 PM 11 comments
Security Google The Lighthouse lawsuit is Google's boldest move yet against organized cybercrime The billion dollar phishing business just got too big for email filters By Skye Jacobs, November 12, 2025, 1:01 PM
The Web Security Meta is still profiting from scam ads despite promises to crack down, leaked documents show Meta's fight against scams is undermined by its own ad algorithms – while making billions By Skye Jacobs, November 11, 2025, 6:15 AM
Tech Culture The Web A deepfake Jensen Huang outperformed Nvidia's real GTC keynote on YouTube – with five times the viewers Promoting a crypto scam, of course By Rob Thubron, October 29, 2025, 7:11 AM
Security Mobile The spam text you ignored might be part of a billion-dollar crime wave How stolen cards, SIM farms, and gig workers power the text-scam economy By Skye Jacobs, October 16, 2025, 1:05 PM
Security Industry Authorities seize $15 billion in Bitcoin after investigation into worldwide investment fraud Trafficked workers ran crypto scams from compounds disguised as legitimate businesses By Skye Jacobs, October 15, 2025, 9:40 AM
Security Mobile Criminals are driving fake cell towers through cities to blast out scam texts Portable base stations are manipulating cellular networks to deliver scam texts at scale By Skye Jacobs, September 22, 2025, 10:09 PM 18 comments
Tech Culture The Web Scammer posing as stranded astronaut convinces woman to send him $6,750 to buy oxygen Oxygen isn't cheap in outer space By Rob Thubron, September 5, 2025, 7:03 AM 15 comments
The Web Google New scam uses Google AI search results to trick travelers with fake customer service numbers "I'm pretty technologically advanced, and I fell for this" By Skye Jacobs, August 19, 2025, 7:44 AM
Security The Web Mystery packages with QR codes spark new wave of scams 73% of Americans scan QR codes without checking their source By Skye Jacobs, August 3, 2025, 7:12 AM
The Web That viral lifetime Starlink offer on Facebook is a total scam If it's too good to be true, it probably is By Shawn Knight, July 30, 2025, 12:36 PM
AI The Web AI voice deepfake of Marco Rubio targeted US lawmakers and diplomats in fraud attempt It is unclear if the fraudster succeeded in obtaining any confidential information By Kishalaya Kundu, July 9, 2025, 11:57 AM
Tech Culture News Around the Web DOJ charges two men over $650 million crypto Ponzi scheme that promised 300% returns Suspects lit up the Burj Khalifa to lure investors By Rob Thubron, July 9, 2025, 7:46 AM 7 comments
Tech Culture Industry "He crushed the interview": Silicon Valley duped by software engineer secretly working four jobs Remote hiring loopholes exposed By Skye Jacobs, July 5, 2025, 1:08 PM 29 comments
Gaming Software Scammers are stealing indie games and selling them on Steam Steam appears to lack a proper vetting process to prevent this kind of abuse By Alfonso Maruccia, June 30, 2025, 8:11 AM
Security The Web Scammers hijack real support pages to show fake phone numbers Hackers are also manipulating Google ads to plant fake support numbers By Daniel Sims, June 19, 2025, 6:09 PM
Hardware Gaming Repair technician finds three of four RTX 4090s were fakes packing RTX 3000-series GPUs Not the first time we've seen this scam By Rob Thubron, June 16, 2025, 7:46 AM
Security AI AI is helping scammers steal student loans and enroll in fake classes Millions lost as AI bots impersonate students and drain federal aid By Skye Jacobs, June 10, 2025, 9:38 AM 8 comments
Hardware Gaming Amazon customer buys RTX 5090, receives rice, pasta, and mystery GPU instead A graphics carb? By Rob Thubron, June 6, 2025, 7:46 AM 30 comments
Hardware Gaming At least 32 Zotac RTX 5090 buyers at Micro Center find only backpacks inside the boxes GeFarce By Rob Thubron, May 31, 2025, 8:17 AM 12 comments
Security AI Google adds on-device AI to Chrome to catch scams in real time GenAI also helps Android apps and mobile search combat scam campaigns By Alfonso Maruccia, May 9, 2025, 11:54 AM