Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Identity theft is a crime in which someone steals your personal identifying information and uses it without your permission, typically to commit fraud or achieve financial gain....
"Scam Altman" is a derogatory nickname popularized by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to publicly mock and criticize OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The moniker has become a central fixture in the hig...
A scam is a fraudulent or deceptive scheme designed to trick people out of their money, valuables, or personal information. Unlike direct theft or hacking, scams rely heavily on social engineering and...
A Ponzi scam is a fraudulent investment operation where money from new investors is used to pay artificial returns to earlier investors. The scheme relies entirely on a constant inflow of fresh capita...
An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud where a victim is promised a significant benefit—such as a large sum of money, a prize, or a loan—but must pay an upfront fee to receive it. Once the fee is paid...
A keyed-in credit card scam involves criminals manually entering stolen credit card numbers, expiration dates, and security codes (CVV) into a point-of-sale (POS) terminal or online payment system, ra...
A brushing scam occurs when e-commerce sellers send unsolicited, low-value items (like seeds, jewelry, or trinkets) to people who did not order them. The goal is to create a fake "verified purcha...
A phishing scam is a type of cyberattack where criminals impersonate a trusted entity—like a bank, government agency, or a colleague—to trick you into sharing sensitive information. The name is a play...
Pig Butchering, also called pig slaughtering, is a type of confidence and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing monetary contributions, generally in the form o...
A dummy shopper is a scammer or thief who uses stolen or cloned credit cards or information to purchase items and sells the same items in exchange for cash. The scammer also uses fake IDs to falsely v...
A Cyber Attack or CyberAttack is a cyberspace attack that targets an enterprise’s use of cyberspace for the purpose of disrupting, disabling, destroying, or maliciously controlling a computing environ...
Money that is earned legally and the necessary tax is paid, compared to black money that is earned illegally, or on which the necessary tax is not paid...
Bait and switch is fraudulent advertising used by retailers to lure potential customers into their place of business, by misleading the customer with an offer (the bait) in order to induce him/her to ...