As AI makes scams more convincing and easier to scale, small businesses are losing money at alarming rates, with those losses ...

If you love the holidays, I can promise you scammers love them even more. December is their Super Bowl, and one of the biggest scams this time of year involves fake shipping and delivery alerts. They ...

Legal consequences can be up to 20 years in prison, plus fines of more than $250,000. This scheme often combines with other ...

Craig Newmark's philanthropic strategy is shaped as much by what didn’t work as by what did — leading to an approach that favors scale, networks, and trusted intermediaries over scattershot giving.

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Brokers, leagues, and venues are finding ways to combat the growing ticket scam problem. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

The United States, Britain and South Korea have joined a crackdown on groups running frauds from Southeast Asia. They have their work cut out. By Francesca Regalado Francesca Regalado has reported on ...

Actors are being hit in a new job scam, according to the latest Federal Trade Commission scam alert. Claiming to represent casting agencies, con artists are texting prospective “clients” about ...

That urgent email from your boss might not be from your boss at all. A fake boss scam is a form of fraud in which scammers pose as a company executive to trick an employee into sending money or ...

Illinois AG logged more than 18,900 consumer complaints in 2024; construction led. FTC reported $12.5 billion in U.S. fraud losses in 2024; investments and imposters common. Officials urge credit-card ...

Even now, face to face with his decimated savings, it’s hard to reconcile the five-month relationship he had with a Finnish woman in Florida with the elaborate scam it now clearly was. It felt ...

Discover how to spot Deepfakes, prevent AI scams, and detect AI voice fraud with practical tips to verify calls and verify videos for authenticity. Pixabay, geralt The rise of artificial intelligence ...