Just when you thought you knew how to avoid online scams, fraudsters have gotten trickier—and more convincing. Many of them have started to send emails impersonating popular retailers.

Americans lost $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, including over $5.7 billion in investment scams alone, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Even as government agencies and nonprofits work to ...

Financial scams aren’t new, by any means, but they have recently accelerated in frequency, thanks in part to the COVID-19 ...

Phoney job ads sent via text and WhatsApp claim to offer lots of money to complete tasks in your own time. These scams are typically used by fraudsters to groom you into an elaborate scam. Recently, ...

But there are several ways to protect yourself. Good morning. Scams, facilitated by better technology and perpetrated by criminal groups, are getting more complex and effective. Today we explain ...

Learn more. I recently fell victim to a sophisticated phone scam that used AI to clone the voice of a family member who was “in trouble” and needed immediate financial assistance (bail ...

Some scams are obvious, but others hide in plain sight without us even questioning them. Recently, redditor DylanCTV13 asked the r/AskReddit community to share the scams that are so good that ...

A new survey from Allstate Identity Protection reveals that nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) are worried cybercriminals could use their personal information to pocket their tax refund.

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