Increasing Numers of Young People Fall to Online Scams
Older people active on the Internet are considered to be particularly vulnerable to online scammers. However, it turns out that also teenagers are not very prudent in this matter.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
August 12, 2021
Premature Joy at the Return of Fallout Devs - Fans Got Cheated on Twitter
The return of classic Fallout, MDK and many other iconic series is nigh? Such was the happy future heralded by the supposed return of Interplay Entertainment. Unfortunately, the actual future quickly verified these promises.
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Jacob Blazewicz
July 28, 2021
$10 Million Stolen by Microsoft Employee by Reselling Xbox Gift Cards
A Microsoft employee caused the company a $10 million loss by illegally reselling Xbox gift cards. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
July 2, 2021
Radeon RX 580 Recall Frauds Reported in China
Chinese retailers have started scamming customers for AMD Radeon RX 580 GPUs, all due to their desire to make money from crypto mining.
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Przemyslaw Dygas
April 15, 2021
Queen Elizabeth II Warns of Deepfakes in False Message
A video showing a false Christmas message from Queen Elizabeth II appeared online. The material was created by the British television Channel 4 and its purpose is to warn against deepfake content.
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Bart Swiatek
December 29, 2020
Activision's Lawsuit Scared Cheaters Into Apologizing
Cheat maker and retailer group CXCheats.net has suspended support for their Call of Duty products and apologized for the „pain they caused players”. Reason? A lawsuit from Activision, which apparently decided to get rid of the problem at source.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 31, 2020
Fall Guys Devs Warn Against Fake Mobile Version of the Game
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout was a commercial success. Due to the popularity of the game, videos showing people allegedly playing the game on mobile devices have appeared on the web. The developers decided to warn against this kind of scams and emphasize that the game was released only on PC and PS4.
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Agnes Adamus
August 17, 2020
Cheater Ring in CS:GO Kept Itself Safe for Years While Banning Others
A few days ago, popular youtuber known as Sparkles released a video, in which a hacker told about how the cheater community in CS:GO protects itself through a so-called Overwatch system. It also enables them to report and ban other players.
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Paul Wozniak
August 17, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 - CDPR Warns Of Fake Beta Invitations
CD Projekt Red has issued an official message to players to ignore any emails that invite them to test the beta version of the game. These emails are fake.
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Karol Laska
July 30, 2020
Twitter Got Hacked; Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Co. Don't Want Your Money
Hackers attacked Twitter and took over the accounts of famous people and companies such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Apple. Profiles were used to scam money. The criminals managed to get over $117,000 from the victims.
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Bart Swiatek
July 16, 2020
Scammers are Selling Anti-5G Shields
5G technology is already working in many places, although still a lot of people are afraid of it. We did not have to wait long for inventions „protecting” against 5G.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
May 29, 2020
Former Pro CS:GO Player Sentenced to 116 Years in Prison
Retired professional CS:GO player Shayene „shAy” Victorio has been sentenced to 116 years in prison for fraud committed by her and her ex-husband's company between 2013 and 2017. More than a hundred customers have never seen the goods they have ordered. The woman claims her ex-partner is to blame.
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Bart Swiatek
March 5, 2020
Amazon Removes Offers for Coronavirus-related Price Gouging
Amazon has decided to remove more than one million item sale offers from its website. The reason was false advertisement and price gauging. The case is related to the epidemic of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease labeled as COVID-19.
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Bart Swiatek
March 4, 2020
Facebook Will Ban Some of the Coronavirus Medicine Ads
Facebook has announced that it intends to ban several advertisements of COVID-19 coronavirus medicine, which are said to spread fear and play on user emotions. The company does not want the website to be used for disinformation and making money from the commotion associated with this epidemic.
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Bart Swiatek
February 26, 2020
Cybercriminals Who Have Extorted Over $10 Million Were Arrested
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested two cybercriminals from Las Vegas and New York. Suspects tricked around 7,500 people, from whom they cheated more than $10 million in total.
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Bart Swiatek
September 23, 2019
Two Popular AdBlocks Used by Millions of People Accused of Fraud
The team responsible for creating one of the AdBlocks has recently published a text that makes it clear that two popular ad-blocking plugins do some other things as well, about which the user is not informed. The worst part, however, is that they were installed by millions of people.
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Barth Faryna
September 18, 2019
The Bully 2 Images Appearing Across the Internet are Fake
Published since August, alleged leaks from Bully 2 stirred the imagination of players waiting for the official announcement of the game. As it turns out, it was a carefully prepared fraud.
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Christian Pieniazek
September 3, 2019
ZAO - Popular Chinese Alternative to FaceApp May be Dangerous
The Chinese application ZAO, which allows you to superimpose your face in a video or photo, breaks records of popularity. In an instant, it became the most popular downloadable program in the Chinese App Store and... a true deep-fake machine.
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Konrad Serafinski
September 3, 2019
Gamers Arrested for Fixing Games in CS:GO
Australian police have arrested six players suspected of fixing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive games. This is the first case of its kind in the history of this country.
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Bart Swiatek
August 26, 2019
Cryptocurrency miner is pulled from Steam after it starts selling fake Team Fortress 2 items
Abstractism appeared as a fun, relaxing game for half a dollar. There are many of them on Steam, but this one was special – because it was used for mining cryptocurrencies.
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Mathias Zulpo
July 31, 2018