Older Americans continued to lose billions of dollars to fraud in 2024, with scams increasingly exploiting trust, urgency and new technologies. The Federal Trade Commission said impostor scams, ...

Fraud losses reported by people 60 and older climbed to nearly $2.4 billion in 2024, quadrupling since 2020 Investment scams—often tied to social media pitches—drove the biggest losses, while phone ...

A scam known as the "Phantom Hacker" typically occurs in three phases, where each phase builds on the last. First, victims receive a text, call, or email claiming their account was hacked and are ...

From fake delivery alerts to phony bank fraud notices, phone scams are becoming more common each year. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) operates the “National Do Not Call Registry,” a list of phone ...

Are you suddenly being inundated with calls about a loan you never applied for? You’re not alone. Annoying fraud calls from personal info-seeking scammers posing as processing reps, usually promising ...

SCAMMERS OFTEN TARGET OLDER CONSUMERS. AND ACCORDING TO THE LATEST SCAM REPORT FROM THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, SCAMMERS ARE GETTING TO THEIR TARGETS MORE OFTEN. EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE CONSUMER ...

A surge in scam calls, texts, and emails is prompting unprecedented levels of communication avoidance in the U.S., with over 80% of people now regularly ignoring legitimate messages. Experts warn this ...

A large-scale scam recently made victims of 8 million Walmart customers, according to the Federal Communications Commission. During the scam robocall campaign, an artificial voice identifying itself ...

Scammers based abroad who pose as law enforcement officers are displaying genuine phone numbers of police stations in Japan ...

STOCKHOLM, April 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Truecaller, the leading global platform for safe and trusted communication, today released findings from its new 2026 Phone Fraud & AI Threat Survey , ...

Meta projected that 10% of its overall sales in 2024, or about $16 billion, came from running online ads for scams and banned goods, according to a Thursday report from Reuters. That included ads for ...