Apate’s 200,000 fake AI ‘victims’ are so good at scam baiting, the company has a monthly KPI for how many F-bombs scammers drop at the infuriating bots. Australian tech firm Apate deploys a vast array ...

Romance baiting scams build emotional bonds over weeks before steering victims toward fake cryptocurrency investments. A recent study shows that most of this work consists of repeatable text exchanges ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was almost an hour into our Google Meet call. I was interviewing Kitboga, a popular YouTube scam baiter with nearly 3.7 million ...

There may be no better target for a prank than a scammer. That’s exactly what Rosie Okomura does. Known online as IRL Rosie, she’s part of a growing group of creators who spend their time calling ...