The out-of-stock purchase scam is simple: After you buy a product online, scammers send you a notification that said item is ...

Cryptocurrency schemes, sometimes tied to mass scam centers abroad, have shot up since the pandemic and are hitting close to ...

Have you ever received a package you never ordered? It could be a warning sign that your data has been compromised, with more ...

According to police, she told the victim that she needed more than $1 million to get the gold out of storage and asked him to help with the fees.

The internet is littered with unproven health supplements that use deceptive marketing and sales practices to trick victims into handing over their money. Not all health supplements are scams, but ...

Thinking about grabbing last‑minute tickets and wondering if StubHub is a legitimate ticket marketplace in 2025? StubHub remains one of the most widely used alternatives to primary sellers like ...

Anti-trafficking advocates and survivors are trying to get the word out that victims can file for funds forfeited from the site seized by the authorities in 2018.

A retired lawyer lost the money in a tech support scam, a type of online fraud that is surging. Citibank said it couldn’t recover the funds, which criminals wired from inside his account. David Welles ...

Joe Novak thought he had found love on social media. When the 51-year-old New Jersey father posted on Facebook about the ...

FBI warns cybercriminals are stealing family photos from social media to create fake proof of life images in virtual kidnapping scams targeting victims.

Geoff Williams is a journalist and author. His byline has appeared in numerous publications, including U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo Finance, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, LIFE magazine ...

Selling door to door is far less common today. If someone does knock on your door, here's how to tell if it's a legitimate ...