FTC: Beware Job Offers That Ask You to Perform Game-Like Tasks Reports of gamified job scams tripled from 2020 to 2023, topping $220 million in the first half of 2024. Most schemes start with a random ...

If you’ve ever been asked to like videos or rate product images to earn money online, you may have been a victim of an online task scam, and those scams are now on the rise, the Federal Trade ...

Americans age 60 and older are reporting being victims of imposter scams in increasing numbers, according to the Federal Trade Commission. They sometimes lose all the savings held in a bank account or ...

Americans aged 60 and older lost a staggering $700 million to online scams in 2024, marking a sharp rise in fraud targeting seniors, according to the Federal Trade Commission. This figure, presented ...

Contrary to the idea conjured by the famous statue outside their headquarters, the mission of the Federal Trade Commission is fairness not control of market outcomes. Their latest attempt to ...

More people are losing money to fraud. The Federal Trade Commission says it got 2.6 million fraud reports in 2024. More than 1 in 3 people who reported *** scam also reported losing money, totaling ** ...

Record numbers of Americans have fallen victim to scams that offer to pay for trivial work online, collectively costing their targets hundreds of millions of dollars, the Federal Trade Commission said ...

The FTC says these fake online jobs have accounted for over 40 percent of all scam reports this year. The FTC says these fake online jobs have accounted for over 40 percent of all scam reports this ...

Tennessee Fortnite gamers could soon see a bit of extra money thanks to a Federal Trade Commission refund. The FTC announced Monday that it will send the first of a total of $72 million in refunds to ...