An impersonation scam, or imposter scam, is when a criminal pretends to be someone they aren't to get access to your money or financial information. A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report ...
2020 was a lot of things, including a banner year for online scam artists. The Federal Trade Commission says Americans were scammed out of $304 million in 2020, a 50% increase from 2019. Tom Ernsting ...
A British man who hacked high profile Twitter - now known as X - accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam has been ordered to hand ...
The Illinois Department of Revenue has issued a warning of a new nationwide scam targeting taxpayers. The latest text message scam targets people with "fraudulent messages that appear to come from ...
We’re always warned to keep our Social Security number secret, but what if you were told it wasn’t? The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Social Security Administration is warning seniors ...
BRUSSELS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The European Commission on Friday urged online platforms to gird for a fresh wave of consumer scams linked to the resurgence of COVID-19 infections in Europe and said they ...
A new Social Security scam has been targeting seniors with emails that falsely claim that their Social Security numbers have been involved in criminal activities. The email goes on to threaten to ...
The check is in the mail for millions of New York taxpayers who are looking forward to receiving their inflation refund checks from the state. The checks of up to $400 started being sent out Friday.
Google is going after a massive scam network the tech company says is behind many of the bogus text messages we get every day ...