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Helping older adults use AI in everyday life

OpenAI and AARP's OATS launch the Older Adults AI Skills Jam, a free program teaching seniors to use ChatGPT and spot scams.

OpenAI Academy, with Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) from AARP, is hosting in-person AI Skills Jam events in 10 US communities as part of a multi-year Senior Planet program. OpenAI says the share of US ChatGPT messages from people 55+ grew from 6% to nearly 10% in a year. The workshops include scam-awareness training, teaching warning signs like urgent language and suspicious links, and note that users ask ChatGPT tens of millions of times weekly to evaluate suspicious messages.

OpenAI News·Sep 16, 15:49 UTC · 9h agoAI industry

House passes bill to equip local law enforcement with scam-fighting tools

The U.S. House passed the GUARD Act, letting local law enforcement use federal grants to investigate financial scams and trace stolen cryptocurrency.

The bipartisan GUARD Act (Reps. Zachary Nunn, Scott Fitzgerald, Josh Gottheimer) passed the House, allowing existing DOJ grant funds to be used for fraud analysts, victim-support training, blockchain tracing software, and financial-information sharing with law enforcement. It addresses scams like pig butchering, often run by transnational criminal groups overseas; Americans lost a record $11.4 billion to crypto-related fraud in 2025, including $8.6 billion in investment fraud. Senators Katie Britt and Kirsten Gillibrand introduced a Senate companion in July 2025, and the House also passed a bill retroactively eliminating the 'scam tax' on stolen funds for 2021-2025 victims.

The Record·Sep 16, 18:28 UTC · 7h agoPolicy & legal

Google sues alleged scam site operator who ran fake basset hound puppy mill

The Record·Jan 13, 00:00 UTC · Jan 13, 2023Phishing & fraud

FCC pushes new rules to crack down on robocallers, foreign call centers

CyberScoop·Mar 26, 18:59 UTC · Mar 26, 2026Policy & legal in the wild1

Romance Scams Cost Americans $697.3M Last Year

Infosecurity Magazine·Feb 12, 15:00 UTC · Feb 12, 2025Phishing & fraud

Traditional identity fraud losses soar, totalling $52 billion in 2021

Help Net Security·Jan 10, 12:37 UTC · Jan 10, 2024Phishing & fraud

Civil society, labor and rights groups express concerns about AI at White House meeting

CyberScoop·Jul 12, 20:30 UTC · Jul 12, 2023Exploit / PoC in the wild

Google files suit against Cameroonian cybercriminal who used puppies as lures

CyberScoop·Apr 11, 20:42 UTC · Apr 11, 2022Exploit / PoC in the wild

Total combined fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020

Help Net Security·Mar 24, 00:00 UTC · Mar 24, 2021Phishing & fraud

Imperva says cloud firewall customers' passwords were exposed

CyberScoop·Aug 27, 18:33 UTC · Aug 27, 2019Data breach in the wild

Sarah Armstrong appointed as Executive Director of the Internet Society Foundation

Help Net Security·Jul 3, 00:00 UTC · Jul 3, 2019Industry