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Month: November 2025

Cybercrime / Privacy

Facebook plays role in one-third of all scams — and earns 10% of its revenue that way

November 6, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

Only an egghead inside a Big Tech company would devise a plan to fight crime that involves charging criminals more to access victims.  Behavioral economics, right! When you make 10 percent of your revenue from crime, how else would you try to stop it? Reuters recently reported these stunning facts, [Keep reading]

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The Perfect Scam interview — Molly White on the state of crypto consumer protection

November 6, 2025 Bob Sullivan 0

There’s plenty of reasons to be skeptical of cryptocurrency, and there’s no better skeptic than Molly White, a programmer-turned-publisher who runs the popular newsletter “Citation Needed.”  So I was delighted to have her as a guest on The Perfect Scam this week. There’s no bias like confirmation bias, and there’s [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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