cryptocurrency Watch: can influencers be successfully sued for shilling scam cryptocurrency? Mark Frauenfelder

cryptocurrency Cryptocoin scammers pretending to be Elon Musk pocket millions Rob Beschizza

short cons Watch: Gold ring/out of gas scammer tries to con someone who knows better Mark Frauenfelder

tourism Watch: Korean fellow accosts street swindlers targeting tourists Rob Beschizza

slander Reporter submits self to online slander sites to see how the scam works Rob Beschizza

scams Watch: exposé of a scam contest TV show that rips people off in 40 countries Mark Frauenfelder

IP fuckery The wild story of a new comic book publisher con artist who bought up popular 90s comics IP Thom Dunn

robocalls FCC fines Texas robocallers record $225m Rob Beschizza

scams How TurboTax tricks you into paying to file your taxes Rob Beschizza

beenverified Fake delivery spam was the most rampant scam of 2020 Thom Dunn

scambusting Scammer Payback deletes scammer's files while posing as old lady Andrea James

genies Doctor paid $41,000 for Aladdin's Lamp, thinks he may have been conned David Pescovitz

Chinese seeds Hundreds of Americans planted those unsolicited mystery seeds from China Rusty Blazenhoff

cons Man, 21, busted for posing as 14-year-old and enrolling in high school David Pescovitz

cybersecurity A 17-year-old was arrested for being the "mastermind" of the massive bitcoin Twitter hack Mark Frauenfelder

PPP Florida man bought Lamborghini with COVID-19 business relief funds David Pescovitz

seeds Did you receive a random packet of seeds apparently from China? Don't plant them. David Pescovitz

fakes How to spot a fake parkour video Andrea James

breaking news Major Twitter hack pushes bitcoin scam on Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Apple, Uber, Biden accounts, collects $$$$ Xeni Jardin

hydroxychloroquine Hydroxychloroquine doesn't work against COVID-19 and may cause heart problems, largest study of its kind shows Xeni Jardin