If you're booking a trip soon, you need to watch out for travel scams ...

When Simon’s wife of 43 years passed away, it felt a bit like he’d died too. In his overwhelming grief, Simon sought companionship online, like so many other lonely widows and widowers. Simon was ...

Fraudulent texts peak around noon ET and are roughly 50% more common on Fridays than at the beginning of the week.Different ...

If you’ve been scammed, it can feel impossible to navigate. Online scams result in lost funds, loss of access to important accounts or devices, damage to reputation and other harms. And with the rise ...

A reporter who covers scams nearly fell victim to an imposter scam, but one key fact held him back. Experts comment on why ...

Medicare and Social Security scams target older adults by impersonating trusted government programs and creating fear around benefits, medical coverage or legal trouble. The scam may arrive as a phone ...

Every year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency tasked with protecting the public from deceptive or unfair business practices, receives millions of fraud reports from consumers. To help ...

Asking Siri to call American Express connected an 82-year-old woman to a bogus number that nearly drained $100,000 from her ...

Kris Sampson was working from home in Missoula, Montana, when her phone lit up with a call that appeared to come from her adult daughter. Sampson says the caller ID showed her name and photo, and the ...

I’ve noticed an uptick in scam emails that get past Gmail’s spam filters over the past few years. As an author, the emails I get are usually from so-called book clubs, filled with empty praise for my ...

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has a lot on its plate. It’s constantly investigating defect claims, reviewing crash data, and working with automakers on recall campaigns.

Tax relief phone call scams are common year-round, and criminals use them to get money and commit identity theft. There is an IRS tax debt compromise option, however, that could allow you to settle ...