Scambaiting is when someone interacts with a scammer to waste their time and resources. Some of these online experiences are entertaining and even hilarious to watch. Instead of falling for their ...

Scambaiting is when the target of a phone or online scam knowingly tries to waste a scammer's time. Scambaiting can frustrate scammers and prevent them from targeting others. A UK company has now ...

Scam calls have become a major financial threat, costing Americans billions of dollars annually. Romance scams, fake IRS calls, and phony purchase confirmations are just some of the tactics employed ...

A recent survey suggested that scam calls now cost Americans a total of more than $25B per year. The average loss is $452, but some victims have lost their entire live savings – or even gone into debt ...

People either enjoy or don’t like calling their grandma if she tends to ramble, but there’s one situation in which a long-winded elderly lady is certainly useful: fooling scammers. UK mobile network ...

Chances are, you or someone you know has been the target of a scam. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), reported scams cost Americans more than $12.5 billion in 2024—a 25% increase from ...

Captchas, right? Sure, they're ostensibly for security, but it's annoying having to decipher a series of squiggles just to ...

For scammers as much as anybody, time is money. The more time a scammer spends talking to someone without taking their money or information, the less efficient their operation is. If a scammer gets ...

Scambaiting is a tactic some people use to keep scammers on the phone as a way to deliberately waste their time but there are risks, as Scam Interceptors' Nick Stapleton explain. To watch this with ...

The Daisy vs Scammers campaign aimed to raise awareness of the threat of phone scammers while also leading to positive ...

Developer script automatically calls back robocalls to trap scammers in endless conversations, turning harassment tactics against spam callers.