AI, robotics, automation, biotech, digital finance and new technology reshaping risk.
A comparison of 200 romance fraud victims with 10,723 people who were never scammed found victims middle-aged and better educated, with self-rated security knowledge predicting nothing. The current version of the fraud asks for an investment rather than a favour, stepping between the two standard warnings.
Four known places-and-times identify 95% of people in an anonymised mobility dataset, and coarsening the data barely helps. How real-time bidding broadcasts your location to bidders who keep it even when they lose, what the FTC found inside Mobilewalla and X-Mode, and which defences actually work – including the deletion platform California switched on this month.
The FBI logged its first AI-fraud category in 2025: 22,364 complaints and $893 million. A few seconds of public audio is enough to clone a voice. The scam has one shape, one tell, and one free defence that defeats all of it.
