The Links x SLR Guide to Online Scams

Every year, tens of millions of Americans collectively lose billions of dollars to scam callers. Where does the other end of the line lead?

Ingenious acts of cyber-vengeance

Los Angeles-based Trilogy Media took “scambaiting” to a new level, but some claim they’re gaining viral fame at others’ expense.

Drug dealers have used Snapchat to sell fake pills to teens, but these opioids are often laced with fentanyl, helping to fuel an overdose epidemic

Criminal gangs are posing as flirty girls on Instagram and Snapchat to torment high school boys, drain their bank accounts and push them to the edge.

Priscila Barbosa came to the US with a dream of making it. Using gig-economy platforms she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one huge problem.

Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?

A sophisticated criminal network is using modern day slaves to con thousands of Americans out of their life savings

Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. Those who resist face beatings, food deprivation or worse.

A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times.

Matthew Bergwall was a gifted coder who could have gotten a job at any tech company. He decided to go in another direction.

How easy is it to exploit Airbnb? While searching for my grifter, I found out.

Authorities say scammers use burner phones and fake profiles to blackmail victims across the country.

A writer's quest to find the con artist in Nigeria who duped his mother.

Aromatic oils have become big business. But are they medicine or marketing?

On a warm summer day in 2002, in Charlevoix, Michigan, Richard Joseph’s bad luck began. The lawyer, husband, and father of two was walking across the driveway with a bag of garbage when his bare...

Simon Leviev finds his victims on the dating app Tinder and then seduces them with travel by private jet, luxury hotels and expensive dinners.

Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks.

Daniel Spence was no run-of-the-mill conman. Could he be caught before taking over Northside Media, one of Brooklyn’s hottest companies?

In search of a status symbol, I wound up getting ripped off big-time. But the real scam is how America's payment apps treat their customers.

To women in search of love, Shaun Rootenberg seemed like a catch—until he stole their life savings

Meet the women trying to catch one of Canada's most prolific romance scammers