Hacker News with Generative AI: Online Scams

Interpol urges end to 'Pig Butchering' term, cites harm to online victims (interpol.int)
LYON, France – INTERPOL is calling for a shift in language to combat online relationship and investment frauds, advocating for the term 'romance baiting' to replace the widely used but stigmatizing 'pig butchering'.

Cybersecurity, Language, Online Scams, Law Enforcement

6 points by gnabgib 31 days ago | 1 comments

New FTC Data Show Skyrocketing Consumer Reports About Game-Like Online Job Scams (ftc.gov)

Consumer Protection, Online Scams, Job Scams, FTC

7 points by impish9208 36 days ago | 0 comments

Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry (globalchinapulse.net)
Jingjing invited me to her office and asked me to wait for her to finish work before we headed out to dinner together.[1] At the time, she was working in a third-party payment company—what, in the jargon of the money-laundering industry, is known as a ‘gateway’ (通道, tongdao). Like another similar enterprise I had previously visited, their premises was in a dozen hotel rooms above a casino in Sihanoukville that were rented monthly.

Money Laundering, Online Scams, Crime, Cambodia, Financial Crimes

236 points by speckx 113 days ago | 167 comments

'She Hooked Me': How an Online Scam Cost a Senior Citizen His Life's Savings (wsj.com)

Online Scams, Senior Citizens, Personal Finance, Crime

16 points by wallflower 230 days ago | 12 comments