The FTC says there are a few ways targets can protect themselves from falling victim to the charities and sweepstakes scams.

Your phone rings. It's your son's voice. Panicked. He says he's been in a car accident. He hurt someone. He's about to be arrested. He needs $15,000 wired before the end of the day, and please, don't ...

Account verification and account alert scams may be the most common scams in America, but there are ways to avoid them. Here, ...

Reported scam losses in Shelby County are six times higher than last year. Here's a look at the most common scams.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Romance scams remain very popular. Every year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the ...

That’s according to a report Saturday (Oct. 10) by Bloomberg News, citing data from the Global Anti-Scam Alliance estimating victims lost $442 billion across 42 countries last year, more than some ...

From AI-powered scam detection to data removal and remote access blocking, here are the best tools to help protect your identity, money, and more. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, ...

Everyone who uses email has at some point been sent a malicious phishing email attempting to scam them out of money. Some have even engaged with an attacker unwittingly, perhaps falling prey to social ...

Some of the stories in this interactive experience include discussions of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling ...

Chibuike is a “Yahoo Boy,” a moniker for online fraudsters based in West Africa, especially Nigeria, who con foreigners out of their life savings. Named for the Yahoo email addresses they once used, ...

Journalist Carlos Barragán tells Reema Khrais what drives Nigeria’s “Yahoo Boys” to crime and how they profit from loneliness. Reporter Carlos Barragan spent years getting to know some of these young ...

On Christmas Eve 2025, a group of Russian police officers on the outskirts of Moscow noticed a young man sitting in a parked car near a police station on the outskirts. Several officers approached the ...