Online scams aren't going away, but tools like AI-powered alerts from PayPal and Venmo are making it much harder for scammers to win. These intelligent alerts combine speed, adaptability, and ...

Digital payment systems like PayPal are more popular than ever, and scammers are following the money. Here's what you can do to guard against them.

GOBankingRates: “5 Ways to Avoid the New PayPal Scam That Is Using Real Emails” Jeremy Fuchs, cybersecurity evangelist in the Office of the CTO at Check Point Software; email interview, April 2025 ...

PayPal and Venmo are introducing new AI-powered scam detection alerts to help users avoid fraud when sending money through ...

PayPal and Venmo have introduced AI features to detect and stop scams in real time, helping users avoid losing money.

Placing a fraud alert with credit bureaus can keep your identity safe, as well. Even if you only received a suspicious email and haven’t taken any action, it’s worth letting PayPal’s ...

PayPal is a popular and generally safe online payment system with over 400 million users. However, scammers are exploiting its popularity to trick people, even those without PayPal accounts.

PayPal is a popular and generally safe online payment system with over 400 million users. However, scammers are exploiting its popularity to trick people, even those without PayPal accounts.

PayPal is known to investigate fraud, limit scam accounts and decline risky transactions. Phishing scam emails can be forwarded to PayPal's security team at [email protected].

Authorities said an elderly Atherton man nearly lost $15,000 before the PayPal scam was intercepted by an “alert caregiver.” The financial scam involved the man clicking “on an email link ...

These AI scam alerts are now live in all global PayPal markets and across the United States on Venmo. And because the models are self-learning, they'll keep improving as scam techniques evolve.