Cybercrime is a serious problem. Most of us have probably been on the receiving end of an attempt to get our personal details, or been urged to send cash to a handsome, mysterious soldier stuck on some military base in West Africa. He will come to visit, just as soon as he can afford that plane

Spam calls and emails usually announce themselves as such, thanks to technology, but what happens when you get a text from an anonymous number? Well, when Imgur user Anthony Schillings received one such text there was only one clear answer – play along. Sent from an unknown number, Schillings

For the last year police have been warning people to be alert to scammers demanding payments in the form of iTunes vouchers, after an 80-year-old woman was tricked out of $4,000. Either because he was aware of the scheme, or he was just suspicious of a stranger who kept calling him ‘baby’ in every

It’s called ‘vomit fraud’ and it can make your Uber experience an expensive nightmare. It has been around for a few years, surfacing in different parts of the USA (including New York, California, and Florida). Basically, some drivers with the rideshare are cashing in by using fake photos of their

The advent of the internet created an advanced method for people to scam you out of your money. Why sell candy bars for ‘team uniforms’, when you can now trick people with the push of a button. Well, not everyone is so gullible. One woman was recently contacted by what appeared to be a friend of