The Federal Trade Commission received more than 330,000 reports of scammers impersonating businesses in 2023. Some of these scammers pretend to be major corporations like Amazon or Best Buy, the FTC ...

Respondents offered many good ideas: Try to recover the money. Focus on positive things in your life. Forgive yourself for ...

Scams on the Internet are big business. Consumers reportedly lose more than $10 billion annually to them, and every year there is a new wave of scams to bilk people out of their hard-earned money. You ...

The Better Business Bureau is warning the public about "ghost tapping" and other tap-to-pay fraud schemes. Here's how to protect yourself.

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(WSPA) – Who would have thought looking for a place to rent or buying property could make you vulnerable to con artists. From fake listings to misuse of public records, home listing scams are growing ...

If you think scam emails are all poorly-worded messages asking you to help a faraway prince transfer millions of dollars out of his country, you need to be aware of today’s much trickier phishing ...

Scammers are deploying a disturbing new tactic to try to take your money by preying on your fear through threats of extortion. "You do not know me, however, I know you very well," Carole Mancini read ...

PayPal and Venmo just rolled out something big: AI-powered scam alerts for Friends and Family payments. If you've ever worried about accidentally sending money to a scammer, this new feature is ...

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