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Thailand's Prime Minister Targeted By AI Phone Scam Mimicking World Leaders
Paetongtarn identified the fake voice but expressed surprise at the scam's sophistication, underscoring the growing threat of AI-enabled fraud.
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UK Police Arrest 142 In Biggest Global Crackdown On Phone Scammers
UK police on Thursday said their biggest ever counter-fraud operation had disrupted an international criminal network targeting hundreds of thousands of victims in millions of spam phone calls.
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90-Year-Old Woman Conned Out Of $32 Million In Hong Kong's Biggest Phone Scam
A 90-year-old Hong Kong woman has been conned out of US$32million by fraudsters posing as Chinese officials, police said, in the city's biggest recorded phone scam.
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8 People Selling Stolen Mobile Phones Arrested In Delhi
Eight members of an interstate gang selling stolen mobile phones after erasing their IMEI numbers have been arrested and a total of 735 expensive handsets valued over Rs 1 crore seized from them, a police officer said.
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Cambodia Arrests 64 From China, Taiwan For Alleged Internet Scam
Cambodian police arrested 64 people from mainland China and Taiwan today, accusing them of taking part in an internet scam, officials said.
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Indian Woman Faces Deportation For Her Role In Phone Scam In US
A 25-year-old Indian woman in the US has been sentenced to three years' probation for money laundering and faces imminent deportation for her role in a $170,000 phone scam in which thousands of dollars were netted from unwitting victims from 32 states.
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Canadian-Israeli Woman Sought 'Redemption' by Helping Kurds Fight Islamic State
A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help the Kurds in their fight against Islamic State said on Monday that she had volunteered in an effort to "turn her life around" after being jailed in the United States for an international phone scam.
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Thailand's Prime Minister Targeted By AI Phone Scam Mimicking World Leaders
Paetongtarn identified the fake voice but expressed surprise at the scam's sophistication, underscoring the growing threat of AI-enabled fraud.
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UK Police Arrest 142 In Biggest Global Crackdown On Phone Scammers
UK police on Thursday said their biggest ever counter-fraud operation had disrupted an international criminal network targeting hundreds of thousands of victims in millions of spam phone calls.
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90-Year-Old Woman Conned Out Of $32 Million In Hong Kong's Biggest Phone Scam
A 90-year-old Hong Kong woman has been conned out of US$32million by fraudsters posing as Chinese officials, police said, in the city's biggest recorded phone scam.
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8 People Selling Stolen Mobile Phones Arrested In Delhi
Eight members of an interstate gang selling stolen mobile phones after erasing their IMEI numbers have been arrested and a total of 735 expensive handsets valued over Rs 1 crore seized from them, a police officer said.
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Cambodia Arrests 64 From China, Taiwan For Alleged Internet Scam
Cambodian police arrested 64 people from mainland China and Taiwan today, accusing them of taking part in an internet scam, officials said.
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Indian Woman Faces Deportation For Her Role In Phone Scam In US
A 25-year-old Indian woman in the US has been sentenced to three years' probation for money laundering and faces imminent deportation for her role in a $170,000 phone scam in which thousands of dollars were netted from unwitting victims from 32 states.
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Canadian-Israeli Woman Sought 'Redemption' by Helping Kurds Fight Islamic State
A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help the Kurds in their fight against Islamic State said on Monday that she had volunteered in an effort to "turn her life around" after being jailed in the United States for an international phone scam.
