ATLANTA -- In the mid-1990s, the Nigerian prince scam eased its way into American culture. The ubiquitous advance-fee scams originating in Nigeria and sent to unsuspecting U.S. citizens via email have ...

A French woman who lost her life savings to scammers pretending to be American actor Brad Pitt is seeking to unmask at least three Nigerians her legal team accuses of defrauding her. The scammers ...

Nigerian scammers known for grammatically challenged email promising riches in return for a small up-front payment are moving into the business of launching malware attacks against companies. The ...

Artyom Geraschenkov become buddies with a Nigerian scammer who was posing as a white female ‘Angelina Crane,’ via one of Russian social media sites. ‘Angelina’, an American, who is currently residing ...

I remember the first time I came across the Nigerian email scam -- I'd had a particularly unpredictable and eventful year bumming my way around the world and, when an email arrived announcing that a ...

To mark International Fraud Awareness Week, Nigerian banks sent messages to customers on the need to guard sensitive ...

Black Friday is only days away and consumer advocates say this is when online scams really ramp up. Massachusetts shoppers lost more than $226 million to internet scams in 2022, according to a study ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Love then bust. Romance scams almost never end well. It seems women are easier targets. According to the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. lost $547 million to romance scams ...

I thought, after all this time, that <B>everybody</B> knew about Nigerian email scams. Apparently not:<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1 ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — A French woman who lost her life savings to scammers pretending to be American actor Brad Pitt is seeking to ...

Scammers tricked their French victim into believing she was in a relationship with Pitt - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File Andrew Harnik Scammers tricked ...