"I don't use Facebook. I don't even have an email. How could scammers possibly know anything about me?" That's the question I hear from people over 60 all the time. If you assume that by staying off ...

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It’s a young word with obscure origins. But the fact that it’s so common shows just how ubiquitous fraud seems today.

Romance, investment, celebrity impersonation, marketplace and fake job offers are the five most common scams on social media, with fraudsters using fake pr ...

While financial scams have always been around, the variety of schemes that scammers employ to steal money are easily proliferated these days with the internet, social media, AI and crypto. Frauds and ...

If you're constantly receiving scam calls and text messages, you know that not all scammers take the same approach. A recent CBS report found that thieves are impersonating bank representatives to ...

There's no way around it, Americans are inundated every day with nuisance and scam calls: about 50 billion of them per year, according to call-blocking app YouMail (the Federal Communications ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Former software executive investing in cybersecurity security & data. Young Americans, not retirees, are now the hardest hit by ...

Millions of Facebook users filed claims in a recent privacy settlement after the platform was accused of mishandling user data. The approved payouts have been rolling out, which means people are ...

The number of scammers trying to capitalize on immigrants’ fears by posing as lawyers and ICE agents has surged since Trump’s reelection, ProPublica found. Now, DHS says it is seeking to identify and ...

Anthony, an older man from California, told ABC7 Los Angeles last October that he had been scammed out of $25,000 by means of a voice generated by artificial intelligence. Anthony, who declined to ...