Technology has pushed the world of dating into our phones, those same devices that allow us to take photos and videos we may not want the rest of the world to see. And that tectonic shift in culture has made it much easier to run anonymous extortion scams, where people threaten to reveal your private photos to…
This week saw a blast from the past as we told the tales of numerous fraud victims who were targeted by scammers on the cheating site, Ashley Madison. A new chatbot came and went leaving so many people with questions.And then there’s Elon Musk who went “hardcore” with layoffs he even got rid of those pesky interns…
Ashley Madison, the dating website devoted to cheating on your partner, was hacked in 2015, exposing the private data of 37 million users in more than 40 count
'This Will Ruin My Life and Career': Cheating Site Ashley Madison Is Overflowing With Sextortionists
Ashley Madison promotes itself as a dating site that helps people cheat on their partners. But newly released consumer complaints filed with the FTC, obtained exclusively by Gizmodo, should probably give any potential cheaters pause. The site is lousy with extortion attempts, to put it mildly.