After a banner year for people being fleeced out of their cryptocurrency, 2026 started with major news of new hacks, scams, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last year, Meta had to reckon with an ugly conclusion about its Chinese advertising customers: They were defrauding Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users worldwide. Though China’s ...

Artificial intelligence is accelerating scam activity among Australians aged 50 and over, with one in four reporting ...

Older Americans continued to lose billions of dollars to fraud in 2024, with scams increasingly exploiting trust, urgency and new technologies. The Federal Trade Commission said impostor scams, ...

Federal prosecutors have repeatedly called the fraud case that plundered Minnesota's child nutrition program the "largest pandemic fraud in the United States." But it's far from the only ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Rental scams are costing people millions of dollars every year. Real estate broker Rachel DiSalvo says a scammer stole one of her own listings originally for sale and reposted it ...

Cambodia's arrest and extradition of tycoon Chen Zhi marks a rare strike against a massive online scam network.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta knows Chinese scammers are bilking users out of billions of dollars – but has allowed them to keep operating rather than risk its profits, according to an explosive report. In ...

Buxton police said the Facebook post has been confirmed as a scam and the department is actively investigating reports of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Ohio leads the nation in gift-related scam reports per capita, according to a new report from Gourmet Gift Baskets that analyzed fraud data during the holiday shopping season.

CHICO — This week I thought I’d mix it up a little and instead of warning about the next scam, I’d provide some resources on how to report scams. In the past, I’ve occasionally mentioned where to ...