Relatively unknown general electronics manufacturer Airusan has launched the world's cheapest VPG400 CFexpress Type A memory card. If that sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. The card offers more red flags than gigabytes.
Chinese tech company Beaverlab Technology Co., Ltd has taken Kickstarter by storm with its Excope DT1 camera. However, the camera is suspicious at best and an outright lie at worst.
A wedding photographer is to be sentenced after pleading guilty to felony theft after scamming dozens of couples.
An event organizer used a set of fantastical AI images to promote a Willy Wonka-inspired experience but families were left disappointed when expectations did not meet reality.
A Hong Kong-based finance worker was scammed into paying $200 million Hong Kong dollars ($25.6 million) to criminals after a virtual meeting with deepfakes.
A wedding photographer may be fined $80,000 and temporarily barred from doing business for allegedly scamming clients.
Famed natural photographer and National Geographic contributor Paul Nicklen has warned people that fraudsters are using his likeness to scam people.
A photographer had his business destroyed after Facebook scammers wiped seven years of his images, videos, and customer orders from his social media account.
MrBeast has warned that a video for an iPhone giveaway that appears to be fronted by him is actually an artificial intelligence (AI) generated deepfake scam.
A wedding photographer from Sydney, Australia has disappeared with his clients' money, despite previously running a seemingly successful photo business.
The name of a dead photographer is at the center of an alleged scam that saw fraudsters create a fake foundation and doctor photos to get a Michael Jordan jersey falsely authenticated.
A photography dealer from Michigan has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud related to a scheme involving more than 10 clients and about $1.5 million in art, including Ansel Adams photographs.
iPhone users are being warned about a scam where thieves threaten to delete all the photos and videos from a device.
Seismique is a technology-focused art museum in Houston, Texas and is a trendy spot for local photographers to visit and take pictures, including as the backdrop for portraits. HoustonPhotowalks visited Seismique and found itself on the wrong end of a sales tax mix-up.
A wedding photographer from Kansas stands accused of "scamming" couples and robbing them of memories of their big day by faking a family emergency. She has, allegedly, done this multiple times.
Unfortunately, if you use the internet for work, you probably already know that new scams and scammers pop up every day. Recently, I’ve seen the rise in popularity of a new scam targeting photographers. I don’t want to see anyone, especially other photographers, being scammed out of their hard-earned money.
Back in December, a young man walked into one of the fine art galleries that represent my photographs and engaged the gallery owner in a conversation about some of my prints. He seemed to be familiar with my work, said that his girlfriend was actually a fan, and remarked that he had been thinking of buying her a piece.
A photographer and video producer has suffered a huge financial loss after receiving bags of white powder instead of a Sony Alpha 7 IV worth $3,000 (£2,400).
A couple says they were scammed by a wedding photographer who used stock images as his portfolio and delivered blurry photos of their big day.
A young photographer was scammed on Instagram by a fraudulent art buyer who wanted to purchase her prints.
Leitz Cine, a "sister company" of Leica, has issued a warning to customers that a "scammer organization" has purchased a domain name similar to the official company website and could attempt to contact them via email impersonating official employees.
The FBI raided the home of a gallery owner who is accused of cheating clients out of more than 100 rare fine art photographs, including prints by famed landscape photographer Ansel Adams, worth an estimated $1.6 million.
Until earlier this week, Walmart was offering what appeared to be an incredible deal: a portable SSD available in a variety of sizes from 500GB up to 30TB for as little as $18. The product was, perhaps obviously, a scam.
An Australian celebrity fell foul of a nasty scam by a criminal group pretending to be a Palestinian photographer.
The FBI issued a warning that a rising number of scammers are using deepfake technology to impersonate job candidates during interviews for remote positions.
Fake videos of Elon Musk created by cyber scammers have been published on YouTube for the purpose of defrauding unsuspecting victims and the video platform has been criticized for failing to tackle the problem.
A long-running scam targets frustrated Canon printer owners who are looking for the right drivers. They find themselves on fake customer service websites that lure them into handing over cash or even control of their computers.
A Swedish photography magazine was recently contacted by lawyers who claimed that a photo it downloaded from the free photo service Pixabay violated a client's copyright. But it turned out the law firm and the client were both fake, and the real photographer had never uploaded it to Pixabay either.
What would you do for this check? I'm photographer Dave Koch, and this is the story of how my real estate photography business was recently targeted by a fake check scammer.
Nikon has issued a warning that scammers are impersonating Nikon Public Relations to YouTube and Facebook channel owners. Nikon says that these emails have no relation to Nikon or its affiliates.