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Headline: "Scamville Exposed: Protect Yourself from Formjacking, Phishing, and Breaches"

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 Hey listeners, Scotty here, your go-to scam buster with a tech edge sharper than a zero-day exploit. Buckle up, because the past few days have been a wild ride in scamville—formjacking's jacking forms on sites like Ticketmaster via sneaky Magecart code injected through third-party chatbots, siphoning millions in card data monthly, as Scamicide warns on February 2nd. These invisible scripts snag your info mid-checkout, no pop-up needed.

Fast forward to yesterday, February 3rd, and Geek Squad's getting ghosted by phishers flooding inboxes with fake $339.99 auto-renewal invoices from Best Buy's tech wizards. FTC data shows Geek Squad tops the impersonation charts—click that bogus link or call the shady number, and boom, your identity's toast. Coinbase ain't safe either; their January 31st phishing blitz uses AI-forged emergency emails pushing QR scans or fake logins to drain your crypto wallet.

Breaches are fueling the fire too. ShinyHunters, that English-speaking crew, hit Panera Bread hard on January 31st, swiping names, emails, phones, addresses, and account deets for 14 million customers via social engineering—posing as IT to snag creds. They've pillaged Google, Farmers Insurance, even Chanel and Qantas last year. Data like that arms scammers for targeted hits.

Arrests are dropping like bad packets. India's CBI nailed Operation CyStrike on January 30th with FBI, UK, Kuwait, Ireland, and Singapore crews, raiding 35 spots across New Delhi, Bihar, Maharashtra—you name it. They busted networks fleecing US, UK, and more victims, seizing laptops, phones, fake Kuwait e-visas under eservicemoi-Kw.com, and 60 lakh rupees in cash. Key player Pfokrehrii Peter got cuffed in New Delhi. Over in Myanmar's Shan State near Haikpu Village, forces grabbed 330 Chinese nationals on February 3rd running online scams and gambling from tarpaulin shacks, hauling 208 phones, 86 all-in-ones, Starlink rigs, the works. Philippines cops collared an American romance scammer too.

AI's the new kingpin—Reese Witherspoon's blasting fake Instagram and TikTok accounts like @reesewitherspoon private, catfishing fans into cash dumps. Fake Apple investigators peddle child porn scares for remote access and gift card grabs. Even in Westlake, Ohio, a clerk saved a grandma from blowing $5,500 at a crypto ATM after bank fraud phonies ordered it. Estevan, Saskatchewan, saw a Bitcoin scam victim bleed serious cash just hours ago.

Dodge this mess, listeners: Hover over links—mismatched URLs scream scam. Never share creds or grant remote access. Verify via official apps or sites only. Use unique passwords, enable 2FA, and freeze your credit if breached. Banks like those HKMA warns about are fake-site magnets too.

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