CONSIDERING THIS CHANGE. DEMOCRATS OPPOSE THE MEASURE. AN 86 YEAR-OLD VICTIM OF A COMPUTER SCAM IS GETTING THEIR MONEY BACK THANKS TO BEDFORD POLICE. BEDFORD POLICE SAY THE VICTIM RECEIVED AN ALERT ...

According to Pew Research, 73% of U.S. adults have experienced some type of online scam. Jacqueline Mente' almost became part of that statistic this past Tuesday. "It can happen to anybody, you don’t ...

A fake Geek Squad scammer thought he was setting up a simple refund scam, but his own computer had already been compromised.

You decide who to abduct. You decide when to feed them. You decide how they rip people off to make you money to pay off a debt. These are key elements of Scam Center Simulator: Under Kingdom (SCS), a ...

If it feels like it's getting harder and harder to avoid being scammed, that's because it is. In the age of artificial intelligence, scammers are using voice cloning that can sound very real, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Ypsilanti woman narrowly avoided losing nearly $80,000 to an online scam after a fake Microsoft pop-up appeared on her laptop.

A joint international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine cryptocurrency investment fraud centers. The crackdown was led by Dubai Police ...

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned of a massive increase in losses from social media scams since 2020, exceeding $2.1 billion in 2025. According to reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel ...

A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms. On Tuesday, the nonprofit Consumer Federation ...

Hackers are spoofing Paperless Post, Evite and Punchbowl to creep into your hard drive. By Steven Kurutz When John Lantigua, a retired journalist in Miami Beach, checked his email one recent morning, ...