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 Quick catch-up, listeners—Scotty here, your favorite guide to what’s hot and hacky in the world of scams. The cybercrooks have been wild lately, and if you shopped even once online this month, odds are you dodged a digital bullet. For example, NordVPN and Amazon reported over 120,000 fake Amazon websites were launched ahead of October’s Prime Day—right when your mouse was twitching over “Buy Now.” These sites are meticulously crafted to look like real Amazon pages, stealing your payment info or baiting you into malware hell. So if you clicked a Prime Day link from your cousin’s Facebook or an “official” promo email and felt something was weird, trust your gut—it probably was. The stats show unauthorized payment scams jumped up to 38% last month, meaning the rip-off artists are after your cash, not just your login.

But wait, the jaw-droppers don’t stop there. Let’s talk the Chen Z. takedown—feds broke up a $15 billion crypto fraud operation, allegedly run from Cambodia’s Prince Holding Group call center. Investigators allege Chen’s crew trafficked hundreds of people, forced them to cold-call and catfish victims, and pushed slick crypto investment schemes that funneled money through international accounts. FBI data says billions vanished from regular folks, all while the ringleaders faked friendship and trust online. Give it up for some muscular police work: Chen Z. now faces wire fraud and conspiracy charges in New York.

It’s not all international; scams are hitting close to home. In Jefferson County, Georgia, an 81-year-old was snared by a caller pretending to be an FTC agent, complete with a bogus FBI badge and all. The “agent” convinced the victim that their identity was stolen and guided them right into forking over a fortune. Luckily, police nabbed the scammer just last week. Up in New York, State Troopers arrested another criminal who extorted $500,000 in gold bars from a victim by stoking fear and urgency.

Sick of scam stories yet? Hold up, because Malwarebytes just revealed that one in six mobile users has gotten a sextortion threat this year—think threats to leak nudes or fake deepfakes using AI. For Gen Z, it’s 38% hit rate. Almost half say the emotional, financial, or even professional fallout was severe. AI is turbo-charging phishing too: from robot-generated phone calls of your “boss” (even the voice!), to phishing emails that would convince your grandma and your CTO.

Here’s Scotty’s rapid-fire survival cheat sheet: Don’t trust links in emails—type addresses directly into your browser. Never give out personal info to anyone you didn’t call yourself. Use a password manager—one leak and you’re toast. Multi-factor authentication? Non-negotiable. Got a call that says “Pay now or else”? Hang up and call the official number yourself. Remember, scammers prey on urgency. Slow down, think twice, and always test if it smells phishy.

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