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Female models walking on catwalk

How Models Are Fighting Back Against the Job Scammers and Sexual Predators Who Target Them On Social Media

No longer able to depend on agencies to find work, fashion models have turned to social media, where they have to fight back against the job scammers and sexual predators who find them here.
By Rachyl Jones
Zelle photo illustration

Scams Using Zelle Are Exploding But the Banks That Own the Payment App Refuse to Help

As scammers use Zelle to defraud customers, two U.S. senators are demanding the payment app's owner take responsibility.
By Linda Carroll
Estimates show that 43 million Americans were scammed last year and lost about $10.5 billion due to robocalls.

Spam Robocalls in the US Are Up 35%

Estimates show that 43 million Americans were scammed last year and lost about $10.5 billion due to robocalls.
By Harmon Leon
So far, Airbnb has been successful in relying on a "trust" economy, which is to say it has been operating in a way different from almost every other business in America

Ahead of IPO, Scandal-Struck Airbnb Scrambles to Restore ‘Trust Economy’

By Chris Roberts
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton speaks about a heightened terror alert in New York after attacks in the Belgian capital of Brussels on March 22, 2016 in New York City.

Afternoon Bulletin: Minority Cops Slam Bratton, Chinese Blessing Scam And More

By Elissa Nunez
Again, we warn you to be wary of the trendy clothes sites advertising on Facebook.

Here’s What Happens When Buzzfeed Digs a Little Deeper

By Sage Lazzaro
(Photo: Ted.com)

How One Genius Comedian Trolled His Spam Emailer

By Sage Lazzaro
(Illustration: Morgan Schweitzer)

Brain Drugs, Kickstarter Scams & Bitcoin Battles: Our Biggest Tech Stories of 2015

By Sage Lazzaro, John Bonazzo and Brady Dale
(Photo: Kickstarter)

Three Years Later, Kickstarter Scammers Still Holding Onto $1M Without Care From FTC

By Sage Lazzaro
(Photo: ROMWE)

The FTC Has Clothes Companies Tobi, She In, ROMWE and RoseGal on Its Radar for Fraud

By Sage Lazzaro

All Signs Point to Scam for Those Trendy Clothes Sites Flooding Facebook With Ads

By Sage Lazzaro
Backers, you're not alone. (Photo: Kickstarter)

Botched $1M Kickstarter CST-01 Had Another Secret Investment, Made Up Van Sob Story

By Sage Lazzaro
The CST-01. (Photo: Kickstarter)

Did the Creators of a $1M Kickstarter Botch Production or Blow the Cash on Mojitos?

By Sage Lazzaro

New Bill Would Put Smart Chips in New York Credit Cards

By Jack Smith IV

Man Sues OkCupid After Being Catfished Out of $70k

By Molly Mulshine
(freerange)

East Village Real Estate Scammer Dupes Women out of $22,000

By Sage Lazzaro
Hopefully the people operating these trucks aren't scammers too. (Tim F./Flickr)

No, It’s Never A Good Idea to Pay a Strange Man Threatening to Turn Off Your Electricity

By Billy Richling

Apartment Hunt From Hell: New Yorkers Made Easy Marks for Housing Huckster

By Kim Velsey
Scam alert.

Brothers Orchestrate Thousand Dollar Craigslist Scam But Don’t Think They Did Anything Wrong

By Jordan Valinsky

Three Men Arrested for Facebook IPO Scam (So At Least Somebody Made Money Off of It)

By Jordan Valinsky
Beware the money cleansing on a mountaintop routine. flickr, BiblioArchives/ Library Archives

The Guru Grift: Spiritual Fraudster Pleads Guilty To Swindling Client Out of $650,000

By Kim Velsey

Revenge is Sweet: Time Warner Cable Sued Over Modem Leasing ‘Scam’

By Jessica Roy

Triumphs in Trolling: Scammer Gets Punked by a Tech-Savvy Mark

By Kelly Faircloth

How to Scam Your Way to a Rhino Horn Jackpot

By Dan Duray
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