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2 Men Tricked Apple Into Sending iPhones Worth $2.5 Million. Here's How
Two men were sentenced this week for orchestrating a sophisticated scheme, tricking Apple into shipping thousands of iPhones and defrauding the tech giant of $2.5 million.
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OpenAI Backs California AI Bill Requiring 'Watermarking' of Synthetic Content
OpenAI is supporting a California bill that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content. OpenAI believes that for AI-generated content, transparency and requirements around provenance such as watermarking are important, especially in an election year
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Meta, Ripple, Kraken Join Coinbase’s ‘Tech Against Scam’ Awareness Initiative: Details
Coinbase has launched its ‘Tech Against Scam’ initiative this week. This programme aims to inform the global tech community about ways to safeguard themselves against frauds and online deceit – in an attempt to making the industry a safe space.
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Apple Prevents $1.8 Billion Worth Fraudulent Transactions on the App Store in 2023
Apple revealed its efforts to prevent fraudulent transactions via the App Store between 2020 and 2023 on Tuesday. The Cupertino-based tech giant highlighted the rise of digital threats and the measures it has taken to protect users from falling for scams and phishing attacks. The company said it has prevented transaction frauds in the App Store tot...
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How Indian Woman In US Lost Life Savings To Scammer She Met On Hinge
The "wine trader" wooed her online for months with his flirtatious smile and emoji-sprinkled texts. Then he went for the kill, defrauding the Philadelphia-based tech professional out of $450,000 in a cryptocurrency romance scam.
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Multi-Crore 'Tech Support' Scam Busted In Guwahati, Nearly 200 Detained
Police in Assam have unearthed a multi-crore scam and busted eight illegal call centres, which used to scam Indians and people from other countries in the name of offering technical support. Three people have been arrested and 191 have been detained.
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Indian American Arrested In New Jersey In $13 Million Tech Fraud
An Indian American has been arrested in New Jersey on charge of being part of a technical support scam that targeted more than 7,000 victims defrauding them of more than USD 13 million, a US Attorney announced Thursday.
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US Lawmaker Urges Tech Firms to Label AI-Generated Content, Limit Spread of Misinformation
US Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat who is active in artificial intelligence issues, wrote to leading tech firms on Thursday to urge them to label AI-generated content and limit the spread of material aimed at misleading users.
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Probe Agency CBI, Delhi Police Help FBI Bust Multimillion-Dollar Tech Support Scam
Delhi Police and CBI have helped FBI bust a major trans-national scam that cheated thousands of Americans, mostly senior citizens, of millions of dollars in about 10 years on the pretext of providing them with tech-support, a US attorney said.
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Apple, Google Need to Submit Details on Tackling Fake Crypto Apps, US Lawmakers Reach Out
US authorities have reached out to big tech giants Apple and Google, in a bid to check if the companies are proactively monitoring crypto apps available to their users for downloads. The letters, addressed to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai come in the backdrop of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warning that has recently claimed that fake crypto...
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Call Centre Scamming US, Canada Nationals Busted In Gurugram
A joint team of the CM Flying squad and Gurugram Police has busted a fake call centre which allegedly scammed US and Canadian citizens offering tech support, police said on Saturday.
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Google, Facebook, Twitter, More Big Tech to Be Forced by Britain to Combat Online Scams
Britain said it would force Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other online platforms to prevent paid-for fraudulent adverts after calls from regulators and consumer groups for a stronger crackdown on scams.
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Big Tech Should Reimburse Victims of Online Scams, British Lawmakers Say
Big tech companies whose online platforms carry advertisements for scams should be made to reimburse victims, British lawmakers said, as part of wider efforts to combat a growing epidemic of online fraud in Britain.
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3 Indian Students Jailed In Singapore Over "Tech Support Scams": Report
Three Indian students, who had initially come to Singapore to study, were sentenced to prison for participating in a transnational money mule syndicate that was perpetrating "tech support scams," a media report said.
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Google, YouTube to Stop Serving Advertisements Next to Climate Change Misinformation
Google and YouTube will stop posting advertisements next to climate change misinformation, the tech giant announced on Thursday. The new policy for Google advertisers, publishers, and YouTube creators will prohibit the platforms from helping people make money from content that "contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence ...
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2 Men Tricked Apple Into Sending iPhones Worth $2.5 Million. Here's How
Two men were sentenced this week for orchestrating a sophisticated scheme, tricking Apple into shipping thousands of iPhones and defrauding the tech giant of $2.5 million.
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OpenAI Backs California AI Bill Requiring 'Watermarking' of Synthetic Content
OpenAI is supporting a California bill that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content. OpenAI believes that for AI-generated content, transparency and requirements around provenance such as watermarking are important, especially in an election year
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Meta, Ripple, Kraken Join Coinbase’s ‘Tech Against Scam’ Awareness Initiative: Details
Coinbase has launched its ‘Tech Against Scam’ initiative this week. This programme aims to inform the global tech community about ways to safeguard themselves against frauds and online deceit – in an attempt to making the industry a safe space.
-
Apple Prevents $1.8 Billion Worth Fraudulent Transactions on the App Store in 2023
Apple revealed its efforts to prevent fraudulent transactions via the App Store between 2020 and 2023 on Tuesday. The Cupertino-based tech giant highlighted the rise of digital threats and the measures it has taken to protect users from falling for scams and phishing attacks. The company said it has prevented transaction frauds in the App Store tot...
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How Indian Woman In US Lost Life Savings To Scammer She Met On Hinge
The "wine trader" wooed her online for months with his flirtatious smile and emoji-sprinkled texts. Then he went for the kill, defrauding the Philadelphia-based tech professional out of $450,000 in a cryptocurrency romance scam.
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Multi-Crore 'Tech Support' Scam Busted In Guwahati, Nearly 200 Detained
Police in Assam have unearthed a multi-crore scam and busted eight illegal call centres, which used to scam Indians and people from other countries in the name of offering technical support. Three people have been arrested and 191 have been detained.
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Indian American Arrested In New Jersey In $13 Million Tech Fraud
An Indian American has been arrested in New Jersey on charge of being part of a technical support scam that targeted more than 7,000 victims defrauding them of more than USD 13 million, a US Attorney announced Thursday.
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US Lawmaker Urges Tech Firms to Label AI-Generated Content, Limit Spread of Misinformation
US Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat who is active in artificial intelligence issues, wrote to leading tech firms on Thursday to urge them to label AI-generated content and limit the spread of material aimed at misleading users.
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Probe Agency CBI, Delhi Police Help FBI Bust Multimillion-Dollar Tech Support Scam
Delhi Police and CBI have helped FBI bust a major trans-national scam that cheated thousands of Americans, mostly senior citizens, of millions of dollars in about 10 years on the pretext of providing them with tech-support, a US attorney said.
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Apple, Google Need to Submit Details on Tackling Fake Crypto Apps, US Lawmakers Reach Out
US authorities have reached out to big tech giants Apple and Google, in a bid to check if the companies are proactively monitoring crypto apps available to their users for downloads. The letters, addressed to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai come in the backdrop of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warning that has recently claimed that fake crypto...
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Call Centre Scamming US, Canada Nationals Busted In Gurugram
A joint team of the CM Flying squad and Gurugram Police has busted a fake call centre which allegedly scammed US and Canadian citizens offering tech support, police said on Saturday.
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Google, Facebook, Twitter, More Big Tech to Be Forced by Britain to Combat Online Scams
Britain said it would force Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other online platforms to prevent paid-for fraudulent adverts after calls from regulators and consumer groups for a stronger crackdown on scams.
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Big Tech Should Reimburse Victims of Online Scams, British Lawmakers Say
Big tech companies whose online platforms carry advertisements for scams should be made to reimburse victims, British lawmakers said, as part of wider efforts to combat a growing epidemic of online fraud in Britain.
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3 Indian Students Jailed In Singapore Over "Tech Support Scams": Report
Three Indian students, who had initially come to Singapore to study, were sentenced to prison for participating in a transnational money mule syndicate that was perpetrating "tech support scams," a media report said.
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Google, YouTube to Stop Serving Advertisements Next to Climate Change Misinformation
Google and YouTube will stop posting advertisements next to climate change misinformation, the tech giant announced on Thursday. The new policy for Google advertisers, publishers, and YouTube creators will prohibit the platforms from helping people make money from content that "contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence ...
