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 ...

The best way to reduce your digital exposure and minimize your risk of fraud is to be proactive and clean up your digital footprint before identity theft occurs. Phishing is the act of sending out ...

The FBI is warning that scammers are tapping into multiple financial fraud schemes to exploit the 2026 election season.

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 ...

In September, as election season entered its stretch run, researchers from the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, a DC-based think tank, began noticing a bizarre and disturbing variant of AI slop ...

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Americans 60 and older lost more than $7.7 billion to scams last year, and AI is making the cons harder to spot. I spoke to cybersecurity experts to find out how the scammers think. I review privacy ...

Meta platforms, alongside Telegram, are among the growing number of sites used as a form of contact in 45% of scams. Scams and cybercrimes have continued their upward trajectory in Singapore, with ...

Scammers are always looking for new ways to target vulnerable people. Now they're taking to the skies. The scammers are now lurking on social media, looking for posts from upset travelers dealing with ...

Financial scams have evolved into the mass personalization of fraud at scale. Scammers are leveraging tactics and contacting strategies similar to the ones businesses use to acquire customers. This ...

According to a new report, there's been a wave of new websites posing as Apple iPhone Duo ordering pages -- offering ...

GTA 6 scams use fake leaked builds, early access and mobile versions to push malware, demand crypto and harvest personal data before launch.