The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has just published an official public service announcement headlined with with a very specific warning: Cybercriminals Targeting Victims through Mobile Beta-Testing Applications. The Feds didn’t go as far as naming any specific vendors or services here, but one of the main reasons that…
Since 2019, there have been 12,980 reports of mobile phone scams made to Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime. Mobile scams can include missed calls, imposters, recorded messages, text messages, fake deliveries, confidence tricksters and phone insurance scams. Mobile fraud criminals sometimes pose as legitimate…
Cashless and contactless interactions saw a dramatic upswing in the last few years thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital transactions are now commonplace, so you no longer need to dig through your pockets to draw and hand over germ-saturated bills and credit cards. We handle our smartphones all day, so…
Finn Hafemann / Getty Images Those who sell on Facebook Marketplace should be aware of a scam alert issued by the Better Business Bureau. The alert warns of Zelle scams on Facebook Marketplace in which a fraudulent buyer attempts to buy a big-ticket item using Zelle, the popular peer-to-peer payment…
Finn Hafemann / Getty Images Those who sell on Facebook Marketplace should be aware of a scam alert issued by the Better Business Bureau. The alert warns of Zelle scams on Facebook Marketplace in which a fraudulent buyer attempts to buy a big-ticket item using Zelle, the popular peer-to-peer payment…
Er… not very well. Sure, crypto exchanges like Coinbase, Binance and Crypto.com are easy to use on phones, as are crypto wallets. But Metaverses like Decentraland? You’ll have to log on the good ol’ fashioned way to access them. In general, there’s not many dApps (decentralised applications) yet. Decentralised apps…
Mobile payment apps like Venmo, Cash App and Zelle® make it easy to send money virtually between friends and family. Just download the app, set up a free account, connect it to your bank account or debit card, and voila! You can pay your babysitter, reimburse a friend for picking…
The current public perception of NFT games is that they’re simple, boring, and are essentially cash grab games for the companies. However, with the release of ‘ArcheWorld’, XLGames hopes to break some of these stereotypes of NFT games. Through the MMORPG, Archeage, a game that’s rich in content, their goal…
FINTECH | CRYPTOCURRENCY We were looking for a mobile banking app to consolidate our banking and cryptocurrency when we discovered the hi mobile banking app Banking — Mudassarlqbal — Pixabay We looked at a few traditional banks like Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, and Charles Schwab, plus some non-traditional exchanges such…
Scams targeting users of mobile payment apps such as Cash App, QuickPay, Venmo and Zelle are surging, the Better Business Bureau and Illinois utility Commonwealth Edison warned Thursday (Feb. 24). ComEd customers alone reported being scammed out of at least $27,000 in January 2022, the utility and consumer protection group…
