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A coalition of Big Tech companies is working on a more comprehensive solution to combat online scams. As first reported by Axios, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, Levi Strauss ...

The Trump administration announced criminal charges, sanctions and multimillion-dollar rewards aimed at combating the scams.

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While online phishing scams aren't new, they've become more pernicious. That's largely thanks to artificial intelligence.

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