Account verification and account alert scams may be the most common scams in America, but there are ways to avoid them. Here, ...

Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.

A good rule of thumb is to be suspicious of any message that asks for money, gift cards or cryptocurrency, or that claims you have a speeding ticket or an arrest warrant. If the message demands ...

The Federal Trade Commission released a new report Monday on fraud targeting older Americans, defined as people 60 and older.

In 2025, victims lost $3.5 billion (1) to imposter scams. Now, CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman nearly became a victim of one of those scams. “I just got SCAMMED,” Matt Gutman posted in a ...

A new congressional investigation reveals that fraudulent accounts evaded Tinder’s safeguards for years, even as the dating ...

AI voice scams are no longer as niche as they once were. The technology is both cheap and convincing: a worrying combination that has lowered the barrier to entry for would-be scammers. According to a ...

Being scammed once can make you a target for another fraud. So-called "recovery scams" target people who have already lost money, with criminals claiming they can help victims get those funds back.

A text lands on your phone offering a remote Amazon job you never applied for. The work supposedly takes about an hour a day and pays as much as $600. Sounds amazing, right? We recently received one ...

Medicare and Social Security scams target older adults by impersonating trusted government programs and creating fear around benefits, medical coverage or legal trouble. The scam may arrive as a phone ...

“No legitimate law enforcement agency or district attorney will call you to demand money,” says Attorney General Jeff Jackson. Travis Long tlong@newsobserver.com Scammers are posing as law enforcement ...

Scammers are posing as law enforcement or court officials to steal money from survivors of domestic violence, N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson warned Thursday. The scams have been reported in North ...