People traded as commodities, iron cages used for punishment, severed fingers and even human sacrifice. These grisly details were revealed during interrogations of some of Asia’s most notorious ...

Online scams have become a routine hazard of American life, from fake delivery texts to hijacked social media accounts. In ...

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Steve Wozniak, who helped introduce new technologies by inventing the earliest Apple computers, is sounding the alarm about one of the great threats of this new Information Age: internet fraud. He ...

Thailand has helped launch a global effort to fight the spread of online scams that include criminal enterprises based largely in Southeast Asia ...

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It’s a sad fact, but true — so many of today’s most common scams work by preying on and exploiting trust, and our most human emotions. And that’s even more true when it comes to online dating scams ...

Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Epoxydude / fStop / artpartner-images / The Image Bank / Getty Online scams aren’t just becoming more common, they’re changing in approach, and getting harder ...

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