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AI fraud costing victims millions of dollars

Al Jazeera

Deepfake scams are becoming harder to spot as criminals use AI to impersonate officials and public figures. In Singapore, one victim lost nearly $4m to a deepfake scam, while researchers warn the technology is becoming easier to create.


Mystery voicemail scam can hit without your phone ever ringing

FOX News

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset . Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions . Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG . 'The Odyssey' streaming scam could steal your bank info Trump puts brakes on OpenAI's newest AI model NASA's Chandra telescope reveals Milky Way's outer reaches may stretch farther than previously known'Milestone': Scientists claim to build synthetic cell, raising concerns in step toward artificial life Boy's jaw-dropping Jersey Shore find turns out to be millions of years old Archaeological discovery offers stunning support for Scripture, says Dinesh D'Souza Bible skeptics face decisive archaeological evidence, author Dinesh D'Souza says Pentagon releases UAP files showing'cold orbs,' 'triangular objects' Jesse Watters: Whatever these are, they keep showing up where they shouldn't Family of boy rescued from California monster surf says teen hero became'extended family' Ancient manuscript unlocks lost sermons from one of Christianity's founding thinkers Kurt CyberGuy Knutsson explains how a mystery voicemail scam can shows up on your phone multiple times without notice. Your phone buzzes with a voicemail notification.


Amazon job scam texts are spreading again with a new twist

FOX News

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Medicare and Social Security scams: Warning signs and tips

FOX News

Medicare and Social Security scams target older adults through phone calls, texts, and emails impersonating government agencies. Spot warning signs and protect against identity theft.


A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Then his money started disappearing

The Guardian

One Queensland man lost more than $166,000 to an investment scam constructed by AI. One Queensland man lost more than $166,000 to an investment scam constructed by AI. A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Within days of clicking on an online ad for a cryptocurrency trading app, a 29-year-old Queensland man watched his dashboard soar with profits. Making investment gains was as simple as downloading the slick-looking app and browser extension linked to his crypto wallet.


Travel scams are on the rise - from fake tour guides to AI voice clones, these are the dangers holidaymakers need to spot

Daily Mail - Science & tech

You're viewing the US edition You can switch to the UK or AU homepage at any time using this menu. Queen Elizabeth's in-flight requests revealed - from a favourite drink to her secret weapon to fight jet lag The down-to-earth Cotswolds pub - serving pizzas and Negronis - that has its much fancier rivals truly'Stumped' Here's how to book with confidence and make the most of your package holiday Austria's 007 heaven: As the unveiling of the next Bond edges closer, how the film franchise's coolest attraction lets fans relive Daniel Craig's thrilling Spectre chase at 3,000M Would YOU go on a first date abroad? Singletons reveal what happened when they agreed to holiday with someone they'd just met The tiny European island with incredible beaches set for a tourism boost from The Odyssey - and it's not in Greece Is this the five-bed'secret' retreat - boasting its own pool, terrace and 60 acres - that Tom Holland and Zendaya stayed in on the lavish Beaverbrook estate after tying the knot (again)? The secret UK getaways where you can escape Britain's summer crowds, from glorious Welsh mountains to sleepy Norfolk villages Forget the overcrowded Canary Islands, this is why GREECE is the best place to visit this summer: Delicious food, gorgeous beaches, the friendliest locals. I've stayed in countless Greek hotels over the past 40 years - here are my top ten... Is this the world's most luxurious cruise ship?


FBI warns Microsoft users about passwordless scam

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World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot

WIRED

From fake tickets to cloned websites, AI is magnifying World Cup scams. Can fans distinguish between what's real and what's not? You got a World Cup ticket. It arrived in your inbox with a QR code, professional branding, and a confirmation email that looked like the real thing. For years, spotting a scam was relatively simple.


Pump.Fun's Bounties Platform Is a Black Hole of Circular Grifting

WIRED

Pump.Fun's Bounties Platform Is a Black Hole of Circular Grifting The crypto platform claims you can "pay anyone to do anything," from quitting a job on camera to getting a memecoin-themed tattoo. But it mostly seems like people trying to scam each other. Would you run into a crowded university lecture hall, fart into a megaphone, and bellow "fartcoin" at the top of your lungs? If so--and should you have the means to document this stunt on video, preferably capturing the audience's reaction--you may claim a reward of approximately $1,000 . The money, of course, will be dispensed in fartcoin, a meme cryptocurrency trading at a little over 10 cents at time of publication, with a total market capitalization hovering around $130 million. Such is the promise of Pump.Fun GO, a new feature on Pump.Fun, one of the fastest-growing crypto businesses of the past few years.


Not All Data are Good Labels: On the Self-supervised Labeling for Time Series Forecasting

Neural Information Processing Systems

Time Series Forecasting (TSF) is a crucial task in various domains, yet existing TSF models rely heavily on high-quality data and insufficiently exploit all available data. This paper explores a novel self-supervised approach to re-label time series datasets by inherently constructing candidate datasets. During the optimization of a simple reconstruction network, intermediates are used as pseudo labels in a self-supervised paradigm, improving generalization for any predictor. We introduce the SelfCorrection with Adaptive Mask (SCAM), which discards overfitted components and selectively replaces them with pseudo labels generated from reconstructions. Additionally, we incorporate Spectral Norm Regularization (SNR) to further suppress overfitting from a loss landscape perspective. Our experiments on eleven real-world datasets demonstrate that SCAM consistently improves the performance of various backbone models. This work offers a new perspective on constructing datasets and enhancing the generalization of TSF models through self-supervised learning. The code is available at https://github.com/SuDIS-ZJU/SCAM.