jeffrey epstein The "Jeffrey Epstein's Financial Assistant Scheme" is a 2020 twist on the classic Nigerian Prince Scam Thom Dunn

Could be a scam Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home Mark Frauenfelder

youtube Fraudsters are shaking down YouTubers. Won't the company do anything to stop them? Rob Beschizza

Pee-Wee Herman Pee-wee Herman fans are going all out for "Big Adventure" 35th anniversary tour Rusty Blazenhoff

scammers Man spies on scammers through their own security cameras Rob Beschizza

politics Trump tweets he'll sue 'everyone all over the place' for 'total SCAM' Mueller Russia probe Xeni Jardin

scams How the infamous India gem scam works Mark Frauenfelder

Business Robocalls: Finally, DOJ seeks court enforcement action against telecoms for phone spam Xeni Jardin

gun violence This "bulletproof" hoodie comes with a lifetime warranty Thom Dunn

tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

tabloids The Queen’s worst nightmare, Prince Andrew jailed, and Royal cosmetic surgery exposed in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

robocalls It's not just you — social security scam phone calls are 23 times more common this year Thom Dunn

climate change UK officials blame asthmatics for the carbon footprints of 180,000 cars Thom Dunn

cheaters Parenting advice author Jane Buckingham sentenced to prison for college admissions scam Mark Frauenfelder

corruption How the "Varsity Blues" admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper Cory Doctorow

scambusting Man tricks bitcoin scammer into sending him $50 Mark Frauenfelder

corruption Facebook's alleged growth is largely coming from countries where Facebook says it has a fake account problem Cory Doctorow

guillotine watch When Trump's #TaxScam meant that affluent people no longer had to use the paid version of Turbotax, Turbotax started charging poor people, disabled people, students and elderly people Cory Doctorow

LGBTQ Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans Cory Doctorow