Scammers

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Here's a sobering truth: 95% of cyberattacks can be traced to human errors. The more employees you have, the greater your risk of being a cybercrime…

Scams and phishing attacks pulled off through emails end up causing hundreds of millions of dollars in lost money each year. Even an organization like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is not immune to email hacks.…

Credit: Shutterstock Are you tired of receiving SMS scams pretending to be from Australia Post, the tax office, MyGov and banks? You're not…

There are plenty of games that essentially turn into an unpaid job, or worse, a job that you pay for. World of Warcraft and EVE Online players can relate. But a new crop of “play-to-earn” games, in which the player can reportedly earn…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are certain rites of passage in life. Milestone birthdays, graduations, marriages or births. And of…

LinkedIn has been hit by a rise in sophisticated recruitment scams, as fraudsters seek to take advantage of the trend towards remote working and widespread lay-offs across the tech sector. Jobseekers on the world’s largest…

Michael Steinbach, the head of global fraud detection at Citi and the former executive assistant director of the FBI's National Security Branch, says that broadly speaking fraud has transitioned from “high-volume card thefts or just getting…

by Anuj Chopra, with Lucille Sodipe and Faith Brown in Manila and Gemma Cahya in Jakarta…

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeDelia Rickard, who departs her role as deputy chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission this week, crafted her career path through a list of dot points her father…

Scammers will often ask for a payment in exchange for a guaranteed income. They pretend to be hiring on behalf of high-profile companies and online shopping platforms and impersonate well-known recruitment agencies.One YouTube advertisement…