In the wake of many
recent scam reports, Twitter has begun pulling resources to alleviate the stress of potential cryptocurrency scams on their users.
Not exact matches
The new
report starts out with a summary of
recent events (the topics addressed are: bubble & crash, hacks &
scams, reaction & regulation and adoption & trends), an in - depth discussion of whether bitcoin's surge actually deserves to be called a bubble (which we found particularly interesting), and a section that deals extensively with the schism in the bitcoin community that led to the fork that created Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and other offshoots.
Recent statistics from Norton Family
Report points out that 62 percent of children respond to online
scams.
IOVATION BLOG - Mar 10 - According to a
recent Toronto Sun article, «Money scammers target online daters,» Durham Regional Police received several
reports — all during the weeks following Valentine's day — from women claiming they had been
scammed by men they met online.
In a
recent Miami New Times article, «Tech Keeps Scammers Out of Your Heart and Wallet,» iovation
reported the following statistics based on activity from the last 90 days alone: * Over 67,000 instances of spam * Over 30,000
scams and solicitations * Over 13,000 member profiles misrepresented * Over 5,000 cases of identity mining and phishing
As shown by
recent reports about the availability of «how - to»
scamming guides online, many dating scammers repeat the same methods — often using the same text and images — over and over again across many different dating platforms, to try and maximise their chances of ensnaring a victim.
Learn about Russian dating
scams and check names and photos of
reported OkCupid had a
recent digital facelift and it appears you can't search for online dating profiles by usernames.
After
recent reports highlighting
scams that lead people to pay for useless apps that are typically free, Microsoft's Windows Apps and Store general manager, Todd Brix, says the company will be enforcing its policies more strictly in future.
A
recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald
reported that the online dating
scams they studied (including the one I summarized above) «had a conversion rate of more than 50 per cent, which meant that more than half of people targeted on romance websites end up losing money, often to international syndicates.»
In
recent months, real estate professionals have
reported an upswing in a particularly insidious wire
scam.