A viral YouTube job scam text promises $10K a month. Here are the red flags, how the scam works and what to do if you receive ...

“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

Pierogi from Scammer Payback on YouTube joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about scams and scambaiting. Why do scammers ask victims to buy gift cards? What are some of the biggest ...

YouTube, the most widely used video streaming site, provides millions of hours of free content though with advertisements. Although it is not necessary to create a YT account, it makes the experience ...

What just happened? When it comes to scams that use faked footage of celebrities, few are as popular as Elon Musk. A deepfake of the billionaire was used in a YouTube Live broadcast, telling viewers ...

In my computer service business, we regularly get calls from users that have been scammed. Some have let a remote scammer onto their computer and get their data/passwords stolen, while some get taken ...

YouTube terminated over 7 million channels in the third quarter of 2025, attributing the sharp increase to financial scams originating from Southeast Asia. YouTube removed 7,456,811 channels between ...

Ripple warns that bad actors are stealing YouTube accounts and using them to impersonate the firm to shill their scams, including fake “XRP giveaways.” Fraudsters and scammers are taking advantage of ...