Beware of social media profiles with few photos and never send money or gifts without meeting someone first. Those two seemingly simple tips could potentially save an unwitting man or woman looking ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — A major international fraud ring that stole more than $65 million from thousands of elderly Americans—including a 97-year-old San Diego woman— has been dismantled with ...

Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Bill Hinton / Moment / Galina Chetvertina / J Studios / DigitalVision / loops7 / E+ / jittawit.21 / iStock / Getty A call from someone pretending to be an IRS ...

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 ...

From fake NHS Covid tests to QR code parking scams, Which? has exposed hundreds of scams to help you stay one step ahead of the scammers…. In response to this worrying trend, Which? launched a free ...

If you have been unlucky enough to fall victim to an online scam you will know just how devastating the consequences can be. The past five years have seen new digital scams arise at a rate that can be ...

As the crypto scam commonly known as “pig butchering” has exploded into a full-blown criminal industry that steals tens of billions of dollars a year, an entire ecosystem has formed around it. That ...

Young men are being tricked into sending naked pictures to scammers pretending to be women — who then demand money. The consequences can be devastating. By Sarah Maslin Nir The Instagram message ...