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 ...

US HOW TO SPOT THE SCAM. SCAMMERS KEEP TRYING THE SAME TRICK TRICKS FOLKS, ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR COMPUTER, AND I’M GOING TO KEEP TELLING YOU ABOUT THEM. SO YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY.

“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 ...

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 ...

The good guys have an army of their own now. I met the people (and machines) using AI to scam the scammers. Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a journalism ...

YouTube is a place of immense global companionship. The marketplace of ideas that thrives in the online space has grown from a rudimentary place of quirky videos to a digital classroom and discussion ...

YouTube has a big problem with scammers hijacking channels and streaming fake videos of Elon Musk in order to promote crypto scams. Credit: Marc Piasecki/Getty Images Is there any end in sight to fake ...

YOU WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE SO YOU DON’T FALL FOR IT. FOLKS HAVE REPEATEDLY TOLD YOU ABOUT THESE POP UP MESSAGES ON YOUR COMPUTER, BUT PEOPLE ARE STILL FALLING FOR THIS SCAM AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY ONCE ...