Business Email Compromise (BEC) This involves criminals impersonating bank executives or customers to trick employees into transferring funds. The article cites serious examples, including: A Belgian bank losing 75 million euros to this scam A manufacturing company...

The second group of confirmed Xbox Game Pass games for March 2025 offers much to look forward to. The Blizzard Arcade Collection features classic cooperative games like The Lost Vikings and the post-apocalyptic RPC Atomfall. It nearly compensates for all of the...

Palworld, the survival game often referred to affectionately or derisively— as "Pokémon with guns"—sometimes elicited mixed reactions from critics when it first launched in January 2024. When it was released, we called it a "somewhat edgy, competent survival game with...

Context of Fraud in 2024 The document begins by highlighting the scale of the fraud problem, noting that even with a 2% decrease from the previous year, criminals still stole £580 million in the first half of 2023 in the UK alone. This has reached a level that UK...

The Crime: Fake Friend Call Scams The case involves a specific scam variant called "fake friend call scams," in which perpetrators call potential victims, pretending to be their friends, and then request urgent financial assistance. This type of social engineering...

Online love scams represent a particularly insidious form of cybercrime that operates at the intersection of technology, psychology, and human vulnerability. Let me walk you through the various dimensions of this problem. Psychological Manipulation At their core, love...

Private browsing provides limited privacy features that work only on your local device: No browsing history is saved - Websites you visit during the private session won't appear in your browser history after you close the window. No cookies, cache, or preferences...

 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/influencer-turned-prolific-fraudster-jailed-for-over-32-months-for-cheating-forgery-and-theft Chin Tung Sheng, a 26-year-old influencer with over 334,000 Instagram followers, was sentenced to 32 months and one week...

Free VPNs generally lack the features of paid providers, but there are still some quality options available. Top 3 Free VPNs PrivadoVPN Free Rated as the best overall free VPN Offers 10 GB data monthly (plus slow unlimited data afterwards) Breakneck (950 Mbps speeds...

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/over-850-people-under-probe-over-scams-in-which-victims-lost-more-than-8-1-million The article describes a significant anti-scam operation conducted between February 10 and March 9, 2025 that led to the investigation of over 850...