The Better Business Bureau serving Eastern Carolinas has offered tips on how to avoid dating app scams. Scammers have taken ...

Lea’s alleged story is similar to the French woman who was suckered out of $850,000 by a Brad Pitt AI impersonator. The victim, a 53-year-old interior designer named Anne, claimed a scammer tricked ...

China may have launched a "disparaging" and "malicious" campaign against Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland on the social media platform WeChat, according to the task force set up to ...

Ironically, the policy was called “protection from scams insurance”. Impersonating a WeChat employee, the scammer told the victim, 35, that she needed to make several transfers from her bank ...

Diaspora usage of WeChat is motivated in part by the need to communicate with those still in China. “I always say, our China-based friends and relatives are hostage held by CCP through WeChat ...

WeChat, the ubiquitous social media app operated by Tencent Holdings, has vowed to crack down on the rising number of advertising scams that use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to create ...

She realised later that she had fallen prey to a scam. In the second case, a 56-year-old woman received a call in December 2024 from a scammer claiming to be a WeChat staff member. The victim was ...

Thai police said Wang was trafficked across the Thai-Myanmar border and held captive at KK Park in Myawaddy, which is notorious for its illegal scam operations ...

Shortly after receiving a message congratulating him on a successful audition Yang Zeqi flew to Thailand and hasn't been heard from since.