When you’re being gaslit by a scammer, it doesn’t play out like a docuseries. There’s no ominous score or dramatic reveal, but instead, a slow descent into confusion. It begins with love-bombing ...

The rise of online romance scams has reached alarming levels, as highlighted by a recent case in France. A 53-year-old woman ...

A woman says she was terrified after receiving a call from her sister’s number — only to hear a man threatening to kill her ...

So I infiltrated a fake marketplace scam server, and trolled the scammer by telling him I actually got the prize. This ...

Short for “SMS phishing”—cyberattacks that arrive via text message— smishing refers to a particular type of spam message that ...

Learn how the same mechanisms that allow online scammers to exploit users for profit also underlie troubling threats like ...