All news on the topic: Online Scams

The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old Singaporean woman named Ella.

Cybercrime now accounts for more than 30 percent of all recorded crime in more than half of the Asia and South Pacific countries surveyed by Interpol, according to the agency’s regional threat assessment.

Three in four European adults encountered a scam over the past 12 months, according to a sweeping new report that warns of a rapidly evolving digital underworld where criminal networks are increasingly harnessing artificial intelligence to target victims.

Fraudulent messages impersonating EPPO staff members have been circulating online.