The Consumer Protection Agency welcomes the warning but calls for more visible safety instructions and targeted information ...

JASPER COUNTY, Iowa — The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office is warning people about scammers acting as asphalt contractors. JCSO ...

Officials from Delaware County and the FBI are warning that scammers are pretending to be local government officials.

Scammers have various methods when it comes to getting their hands on your phone number. You might think, "Well, what's the big deal? Isn't it easy to find someone's number these days, no matter what?

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective ...

New research shows nearly three-quarters of adults over 55 have been targeted or know someone who has fallen victim to online scams. Here's what you can do about it. I review privacy tools like ...

Hong Kong's privacy watchdog has warned travelers against fraudulent e-visa websites that harvest personal data and ...

Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, a crime wave projected to get worse as the U.S. population ages and technology like AI makes it ...

A recent study on romance scams found that bots were able to get people to install a sketchy app 46% of the time versus 18% ...

Scammers win when we act out of fear. Source: Michael Treu/Pixabay Online scams are out of control. Like millions of people, I recently received an anonymous email with information about me, including ...

The scheme begins with fake fraud alerts before shifting to a FaceTime call, where victims are tricked into exposing sensitive banking information.

Some patients are forced to deal with “infuriating” attempts at exploitation while navigating their disease. Since receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2021, Lashelle Scott, who lives in the ...