Romance scams aren't the only goals of a catfish. The catfish needs some way to get all that money delivered into their hands without leaving a trail. To accomplish this, they recruit unwitting victims into laundering their money. Meet Alice, who unknowingly becomes a money mule for Parker the Catfish.
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In 2017, consumer reporting agency Equifax was breached, and the credit records of more than 140 million consumers—more than half the adults in the United States at the time—were extracted
Honey is a browser extension that promises to find buyers the best discount codes, but it turns out that it just steals from content creators' pockets.
Hacks and scams are closely related, but aren't exactly the same.
