An elderly Michigan woman walked into a coin shop ready to put $385,000 into gold after scammers convinced her that the money ...

Scammers operate everywhere—job recruitment sites, across social media, on dating apps and in your text messages. Arguably the most hurtful and damaging of these scams is romance scams, where the ...

Finance professionals, doctors and lawyers recount being taken in by tricks like the jury-duty swindle that stole $25,000 from a Florida woman.

The Federal Communications Commission is warning consumers about scam calls and texts from fraudsters posing as agency ...

Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, a crime wave projected to get worse as the U.S. population ages and technology like AI makes it ...

Unveiled at Black Hat, Scam Buster is an open-source tool that turns the tables on social engineering.

"I don't use Facebook. I don't even have an email. How could scammers possibly know anything about me?" That's the question I hear from people over 60 all the time. If you assume that by staying off ...

Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new tool, Scam Alert, to thwart con artists on WhatsApp. The optional feature, currently in beta testing, will run an on-device machine learning ...

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.

After fake vaccines sprung up online during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kitboga, a professional ‘scambaiter’, set about uncovering ...

Fraud losses hit a record $704 million in Canada in 2025 — and the latest threat is scammers using social media photos to ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — As Hoosiers assess damage caused by multiple storms that ravaged through the state this week, ...