FBI real estate fraud complaints jumped from 9,359 in 2024 to 12,368 in 2025 as fake rental listing scams grow more ...

Losing money to a scam is supposed to be the worst of it, but federal regulators are warning that for a growing number of ...

An elderly New York woman had already handed scammers $157,000 worth of gold when they came back asking her to do it again.

Federal fraud investigators say the telephone remains the most reliable weapon in a scammer’s toolkit, and the pitches keep getting sharper. Consumer complaints now describe cloned voices, spoofed ...

Having covered consumer scams for decades, I knew within 30 seconds that she had fallen prey to an impostor scam. In these ...

An 82-year-old Washington Parish man lost 40% of his life savings to a fake Hancock Whitney fraud call. A getaway SUV emptied ...

A 71-year-old Lorain woman withdrew $30,000 from her bank, packed the cash into a shoebox, and handed it to a stranger in a Kohl's parking lot after a fake computer warning convinced her that scammers ...

PeopleFinders reports on the rise of summer romance scams, highlighting red flags to spot impostors and ways to verify ...

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

Whether it’s a text about suspicious account activity, a phone call claiming to be from your bank, or an urgent message demanding immediate action, scammers keep finding new ways to trick people into ...

Some states reported scams at nearly triple the rate of others. Spokeo broke down the data to show where fraud reports cluster and to detail the scams dominating those regions, so consumers have a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Federal Trade Commission issued a warning about a scam coming to your mailbox. It comes as a letter in the mail from a "law firm" about unclaimed insurance money. The letter ...